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Lesson 3 Touching the World
一、Teaching Objectives
1. Linguistic Ability
Master key vocabulary: blind, deaf, educator, progress, essay, courage; grasp time conjunctions before, after, as (core grammar); master reading skills (scanning for details, analyzing chronological order); use time conjunctions to describe life events orally and in writing.
2. Cultural Awareness
Learn Helen Keller’s tough life experience and extraordinary achievements; understand the spirit of perseverance, bravery and optimism; draw inspiration from role models with physical difficulties; connect with other great people learned before.
3. Thinking Quality
Sort out Helen’s life timeline logically; compare her changes in personality over time; analyze the function of time conjunctions in organizing story order; evaluate Helen’s noble qualities with evidence from the text.
4. Learning Ability
Develop skimming and scanning reading strategies; finish cooperative pair discussion; independently use grammar points to make sentences and complete cloze tasks; transfer knowledge to introduce other disabled great people like Stephen Hawking.
二. Key Points & Difficult Points
Teaching Key Points
1. Master new words and expressions related to disabilities and personal growth.
2. Understand the usage of three time conjunctions: before, after, as; apply them to make sentences and fill blanks.
3. Sort out Helen Keller’s life story and answer reading comprehension questions.
4. Summarize Helen’s good spirits from the article.
Teaching Difficult Points
1. Distinguish the different time logic of before, after, as and use them correctly in past tense sentences (hard for intermediate students).
2. Organize complete sentences to evaluate Helen Keller with text evidence.
3. Transfer grammar knowledge to finish the cloze passage about Stephen Hawking.
三. Teaching Methods
Task-based Language Teaching, Grammar Inductive Teaching,
Reading Strategy Training,
Cooperative Pair Work, Situational Teaching,
Timeline Visual Teaching
四. Teaching Aids
PPT with Helen Keller’s pictures and life timeline;
grammar chart of before/after/as; textbook exercises;
flashcards of new words
五. Detailed Teaching Procedures
Step 1: Warm-up & Lead-in
Teacher’s Activities
1. Greet students. Play a short picture video of Helen Keller, then put forward Exercise 1 discussion question:
What do you know about Helen Keller?
Talk with your partner.
2. Invite 2–3 students to share simple ideas, then give a brief introduction: She was blind and deaf, but she became a famous writer and educator.
3. Present the lesson title Touching the World. Explain the title:
Helen touched the world with her hands and strong spirit. Pre-teach core vocabulary: blind, deaf, fever, educator, progress, courage. Show pictures to explain words for easy understanding.
Students’ Activities
Discuss with partners; learn and repeat new words; link vocabulary with images.
Design Purpose
Activate students’ background knowledge; create emotional atmosphere for the inspirational story; remove vocabulary barriers for later reading; fit the learning pace of students.
Step 2: Pre-reading
Teacher’s Activities
1. Introduce the reading task:
This is a news report published in 1968 about Helen’s death. Guide students to predict the content: birth, illness, growth, achievements.
2. Pre-present the three core grammar words: before, after, as.
Briefly introduce their basic time functions, which will be summed up after reading.
3. Show Exercise 2 three guiding questions, let students read questions first to set clear reading aims.
Students’ Activities
Preview reading questions; mark unknown words; get ready for targeted reading.
Design Purpose
Help students read with clear purposes; reduce reading pressure; lay a foundation for the later grammar induction session.
Step 3: While-reading
Activity 1: Skimming
1. Students read the news article independently for 4 minutes, finish Exercise 2 questions:
A: She was blind and deaf. She was difficult and wild after losing sight and hearing.
B: Her teacher Anne Sullivan helped her learn words. Gradually she became calm and confident.
C: She is amazing. She had great courage and worked hard to help disabled people.
2. Check answers together, find supporting sentences in the text.
Design Purpose
Train global reading ability to grasp the whole story; help students locate key information quickly; realize the emotional change of Helen.
Activity 2: Inductive Grammar Teaching – before, after, as
1. Direct students to find three highlighted sentences in Exercise 3 from the passage:
Before Helen got sick, she was a bright and happy girl.
After she lost her ability to see and hear, she became difficult and wild.
As Helen grew older, she made a lot of progress and learned to read.
2. Summarize rules together (inductive method):
before: actions happen earlier
after: actions happen later
as: actions happen during a period of time
3. Guide students to finish the blank sentences in Exercise 3 with reasonable answers, offer sample answers:
A. The children sang happily as they walked home.
B. I finished my homework before I went to bed last night.
C. He had a rest after he arrived home from school.
Design Purpose
Extract grammar rules from the original text instead of rigid cramming; help students understand grammar in context; break through the teaching difficult point step by step.
Activity 3: Scanning
1. First sort out Helen’s life timeline to consolidate time conjunctions:
1880: Born in US → 19 months old: got sick, blind and deaf →
1887: Anne came to teach her →
grew older: learned to read, write and speak →
university study → travelled worldwide and wrote books →
1968: passed away at 88.
2. Guide students to complete Exercise 4 cloze by judging time order:
B Before he became a high school student
A After three years
D As he was a student in Oxford University
C after he had a terrible disease
3. Explain each choice according to time sequence.
Design Purpose
Consolidate grammar points via knowledge transfer; connect two disabled great figures; strengthen logical thinking ability.
Step 4: Post-reading
Activity 1: Sentence making practice
Ask students to make 2 simple sentences using before, after, as to describe their daily life. Teacher walks around to correct mistakes for average students.
Design Purpose
Consolidate grammar application in daily context; turn knowledge input into simple output.
Activity 2: Pair discussion
1. Provide fixed sentence frames to lower speaking difficulty:
Helen Keller is a touching person. Before she was ill, ______. After Anne helped her, ______. As she grew up, ______. I learn that we should never give up.
2. Students practise dialogues in pairs; select 3 groups to present in front of the class and receive positive feedback.
Design Purpose
Integrate text content and grammar knowledge; achieve oral output goal; realize cultural awareness by learning Helen’s persistent spirit.
Step 5: Summary & Homework
Whole-class Summary
1. Review Helen’s life story and key new words.
2. Recite the usage of three time conjunctions before, after, as.
3. Emphasize Helen’s spirits: courage, hard work, kindness to help others. Link with Yuan Longping, Einstein learned in previous lessons—all great people hold precious shining qualities.
Homework
1. Basic Task: Copy new words and three grammar rules; finish all textbook exercises; read the news passage aloud twice.
2. Improvement Task: Write 5 sentences using before, after, as to introduce Helen’s life.
3. Extended Task: Collect one story about a strong-willed person and prepare a short sharing for next class.
Design Purpose
Consolidate in-class knowledge; graded homework suits different learning levels; extend spiritual education outside class.
六. Blackboard Design
Lesson 3 Touching the World
New Words
blind, deaf, fever, progress, courage, educator
Core Grammar (Time Conjunctions)
✅ before → earlier action
✅ after → later action
✅ as → during a period
Helen’s Timeline
1880 born → ill at 19 months → 1887 Anne came → learned skills → wrote books → died in 1968
Sentence Template
As ______, he/she ______.
Before ______, ______.
After ______, ______.
Standard Answers for Textbook Exercises
Exercise 2
A. She was blind and deaf. She was difficult and wild.
B. Her teacher Anne taught her words on hands. She became confident and hard-working.
C. She is respectable. She had strong courage and kept working hard to help disabled people.
Exercise 3 Sample Answers
A. they played games
B. I brushed my teeth
C. he did his homework
Exercise 4 Cloze Order
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C
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