摘要:
该高中英语课件围绕“金钱与成功的关系”展开,以Jason Harley从百万富翁到简朴生活的转变为核心案例。课堂导入通过亚洲、世界首富人物介绍及“百万富翁是否等于成功”的提问引发思考,从生活经验过渡到文本分析,借助坐标轴对比表格、小组讨论等学习支架,帮助学生梳理Jason过去与现在的精神及物质生活变化。
其亮点在于融合思维品质与语言能力培养,采用任务型教学模式。通过坐标轴象限(横轴过去-现在、纵轴精神-物质生活交叉)分析Jason的生活变化,引导学生对比推断其成功观,体现思维品质的提升。借助pair work、think & share等活动,学生在阅读概括、口语表达中增强语言能力,同时树立正确价值观,教师可通过结构化活动设计提高教学效率。
内容正文:
Unit 2 Success
Lesson 1
Money VS Success
Learning Objectives
By the end of the class,students will be able to:
1. Learn and summarise the life of millionaire Jason Harley.
2.Explain and evaluate Jason Harley’s view of success.
3.Understand the relationship between money and success and establish the right values.
4.Have a new understanding of success and express personal opinions.
Lead-in
Do you know them?
Li Jiacheng
the wealthiest in Asia
亚洲首富:李嘉诚
Bill Gates
the wealthiest in the world
世界首富:比尔 盖茨
Q1:Would you want to be a millionaire?
Q2:What do you think is success?
millionaire = success?
Does being a millionaire mean you are successful?
What do you think is success? Do you think being a millionaire means success? Why or why not? Use the phrases below to help you.
to make one happy to achieve one's goal
to live in a/an…way to give money to homeless people
to feel a kind of satisfaction to buy more things
to live comfortably to have no worries
Being a millionaire means that I have a lot of money and I can use it to live more comfortably and buy more things. This will help me do what I want to and have a successful family life.
Read the title of the news report and guess why Jason Harley is an “ex-millionaire”.
Angela Johnson interviews ex-millionaire Jason Harley
Someone who used to be a millionaire
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Read the news report based on an interview with Jason Harley, who used to be a millionaire. Read and find out his attitude towards money.
Jason thinks that money doesn’t give people a feeling of satisfaction or success. He feels that only having a little money makes him free, and he doesn’t want to go back to being rich. He believes that the sense of achievement comes from helping others and finding the true meaning in life.
Read again. Underline the descriptions of Jason’s life in the past and now. Use a graphic organizer to illustrate your understanding.
Organise your understanding using the graphic.
Material life
Spiritual life
The past
The present
a college professor
a huge six-bedroom house
a fortune of two million dollars
a small dormitory with second-hand furniture
a small garden and a few fruit trees
gets his clothes and other things from charity shops
tired of being a rich person
felt guilty
appreciate his new life
feels happiness and a sense of success in life
a kind of satisfaction
Describe Jason’s change of life based on your graphic organizer.
Jason Harley was a college professor with a huge six-bedroom house and a fortune of two million dollars 16 years ago. Then he gave away all his money to charities. Today he lives in a small dormitory room with only second-hand furniture. He appreciates this change. And this brought him happiness.
Material life
Spiritual life
The past
The present
Less happiness
More happiness
More money
Less money
Do you think Jason made a good decision? Will you make a similar choice?
Do you think Jason is successful? In which aspects is he successful / unsuccessful?
I think he made a good decision because now he lives in a simple way and this brought him happiness. He felt a kind of satisfaction that he had never felt before.
He is successful because he is happy and he is helping others.
Voice your opinion: How do you understand the sayings about money?
Money talks.
Money makes the mare go.
Money is the root of all evil.
金钱乃万恶之源。
金钱万能
有钱能使鬼推磨。
No, we do need money in the material world, but sometimes there is something that money can’t bring us, such as, love, happiness, kindness, friendship, life, time, etc. Money is not everything.
People often think that money talks (金钱万能). What do you think of that? Can money bring us everything?
Money can buy a house , but not a home
Money can buy bed, but not sleep
Money can buy a book, but not knowledge....
Success is not measured by how much money you have but how you understand the true meaning of life.
Write an article on the topic “Success / Happiness is …”. Include:
1. Voice your opinion on success / happiness;
2. state the reasons why you hold the opinion; you may give examples to support your ideas.
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