2026-2027学年高中英语 Overcome Yourself 分级群文阅读 备课包

Welcome to my class! Reading with Text Sets Overcome Yourself Learning objectives: By the end of the class, you will be able to: find out some troubles you are likely to have, analyze the reasons and think of the possible solutions. share opinions on overcoming yourself. give advice to others in a difficult situation. Check the preview: (Passage 1) 1. What was Christine scared of ? 2. What did she do because of her fear and what was the result ? 3. If you were Christine, how would you feel? She was scared that she would come last in the swimming competition and make a fool of herself. She slipped away and didn’t take part in the swimming race. As a result, her team lost the race. 4 What if I lost the match? What if I failed the exam? What if my homework had many mistakes? … Fast-reading: Read Passage 2 and find out: What kind of a person might be a perfectionist? Perfectionists always make last-minute changes because they never think what they have done is good enough; they are never satisfied with how things are ; they spend so much time being unhappy over the past things. Self-assessment: Statements Yes/No When I achieve something, the happiness only lasts for a very short time. I almost immediately start thinking of what else I need to do. Things in my life are either right or wrong. They are either a success or a failure. Only when things are perfect and complete will I feel peace and happiness. My hard work is not enough. I am only happy when I do something perfectly. I judge people and feel that they fail me much of the time. I think that people will only value me if I achieve well. perfectionist Fast-reading: Read Passage 2 and find out: What problems may a perfectionist have? feeling anxious and tired having difficulties in relationships a lack of self-worth Careful-reading: Read Passage 3 and think about: What happened to Robert Shaw and me years earlier and what happened when almost 50 years passed? What can we learn from the story? Robert Shaw I Church members Singing group I Shaw years earlier almost 50 years passed Further-reading and think: In your life, when you are in trouble, how can you overcome yourself? Group work: Read Part 2 (para. 9-para.15) of Passage 1 and the last paragraph of Passage 2 and find out some good advice. Reflections on life: Pair work: Each student shares a difficult situation that you want to deal with most with your partner. Discuss in pairs to solve the difficult situations together and write down the solutions below. Give presentations. Post-reading assignment : Your friend Li Hua is going to compete in a speech contest in the city. He has never competed at such a high level before and is feeling nervous. You’d like to write a letter to encourage him and advise him to overcome his fear and do his best. optimism vision enthusiasm respect cooperation openness maturity expectation Overcome yourself ! optimism vision enthusiasm respect cooperation openness maturity expectation Thanks for your attention! $ Overcome Yourself  I. Analysis of the teaching material: 本节课内容选自外研社英语分级群文阅读高二上册Unit 2。模块话题是Overcome Yourself。本模块有3篇文章。 第一篇Overcome your fear， 第二篇Are you a perfectionist?，第三篇Who says it’s too late?。 本节课的话题为普通高中英语课程主题语境中的人与自我和人与社会。在培养学生语言理解和表达能力的同时，帮助学生形成积极的生活态度，认识自我，丰富自我，完善自我，维持良好的人际关系和进行社会交往。 II. Learning objectives: By the end of the class, the students will be able to: 1. find out some troubles they are likely to have, analyze the reasons and think of the possible solutions. 2. share opinions on overcoming yourself. 3. give advice to others in a difficult situation. III. Main points: 1. Know what the three articles mainly talk about. 2. Find out the reasons why you are scared and how you can overcome yourself. IV. Difficult points: 1. Get too much information in a reading class with text sets. 2. Give advice to others in a difficult situation properly. V. Teaching methods: Situational teaching method, task-based approach, pair and group work and feedback. VI. Teaching procedures: Procedures Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Purposes Step 1: Lead-in ( 1 min) 1. Introduce the topic by asking a question: Can you help me to overcome myself on such a stressful occasion? 2. Show the learning objectives. Help the teacher to overcome herself. Get to know the topic and the learning objectives. To arouse the students’ interest and lead into the topic “Overcome Yourself”. Step 2: Check the preview work of Passage 1 ( 3 min) Lead the students to read Part 1 (para. 1-para. 8) of Passage 1 before class and answer some questions: a. What was Christine scared of? b. What did she do because of her fear and what was the result? c. If you were Christine, how would you feel? Express their opinions on the behavior of Christine. To make the students think about the behavior of Christine and find out the reason why she did so. Step 3: Fast-reading of Passage 2 and self-assessment ( 10 min) 1. Ask the students to read Passage 2 and find out: What kind of a person might be a perfectionist? 2. Check the result of the self-assessment. 3. Ask the students to continue to read and find out: What problems may a perfectionist have? Read Passage 2 and answer the questions. To help the students find out what a perfectionist is like and what are the problems a perfectionist may have. Step 4: Careful-reading of Passage 3 (8 min) 1. Ask the students to read Passage 3 and think about: What happened between Robert Shaw and me years earlier and what happened when almost 50 years passed? 2. Put forward one way to overcome yourself: It’s never too late. 1. Read Passage 3 and grasp the main idea. 2. Find out a solution. To train the students’ ability of analyzing and summarizing. Step 5: Further-reading of Passage 1 and Passage 2 and Group work (7 min) Ask the students a question: In your life, when you are in trouble, how can you overcome yourself? Work in groups to read Part 2 (para.9-para.15) of Passage 1 and the last paragraph of Passage 2 for some good advice on overcoming yourself and think of their own solutions. To make the students think of some ways to overcome themselves. Step 6: Reflections on life and Pair work (10 min) Ask the students to work in pairs to share their own difficult situations, discuss to solve them together and then give presentations. 1. Discuss in pairs and write down possible solutions. 2. Give presentations. To lead the students to face difficult situations bravely, take a positive attitude towards troubles in life and develop their social skills. Step 7: Post-reading: Assignment ( 1 min) Ask the students to finish a writing task based on the given information: Write a letter to encourage your friend Li Hua who is going to compete in a speech contest and give him some advice on overcoming himself. Think and write according to the given topic. To put what the students have learnt into practice. To lead the students to help others in daily life. VII．After-class reflection 2 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ Unit 2 Overcome Yourself Preview tasks: 1. Read the three passages (Passage 1: Overcome your fear; Passage 2: Are you a perfectionist? Passage 3: Who says it’s too late?) quickly and try to memorize the words and phrases in WORD BANK. If there are other new words in the passages to you, look them up. 2. Read Part 1 (paragraph1-8) of Passage 1 quickly and answer the following questions. (1). What was Christine scared of? (2). What did she do because of her fear and what was the result? (3). If you were Christine, how would you feel? Give some reasons. 3. Self-assessment: answer Yes or No. Statements YES/NO When I achieve something, the happiness only lasts for a very short time. I almost immediately start thinking of what else I need to do. Things in my life are either right or wrong. They are either a success or a failure. Only when things are perfect and complete will I feel peace and happiness. My hard work is not enough. I am only happy when I do something perfectly. I judge people and feel that they fail me much of the time. I think that people will only value me if I achieve well. 4. Write down a difficult situation that you want to deal with most briefly. ( 第 1 页 共 2 页 ) 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $UNIT 2 Overcome Yourself 战胜自我 Overcome your fear 克服你的恐惧 It was the day of the school swimming It was two minutes before the start of the competition and I was very scared.I did race.The swimmers in the race were walking not want to swim.I could swim,not very down to the race start area.If there were well,and I didn't want people to see me seven other swimmers,surely it would not be splashing about and looking silly.However, a big deal for me to miss it.I was only going the biggest problem was that I was scared to come last anyway.So I decided to slip that I would come last and make a fool of away-just disappear-and the best place to myself. hide was in the changing room.Quietly and quickly,I made my way there. There were two teams in our school,Green and Red.I was in the Red Team and I didn't I heard them calling my name on the want us to lose.In each swimming race, loudspeaker,"Will the last swimmer for the there were eight swimmers-four for each Red Team please come down?Will Christine team.The teams won points depending on please come to the starting block?"I was how their swimmers performed. so embarrassed that I hid behind the shower curtain! Then the cheering started.Thank goodness that the race was away and I was safe! When it was over,I went back to the seating area.A scowling and angry teacher stopped me.She said,"Christine,you have cost the Red Team ten points.A 'no-show'is a ten- point penalty!" 10 It was a tight competition but the Red Team you need to overcome and by taking that lost that day by six points.If I had just challenge,you will succeed in something gotten into the water and swum,even if I important.The fact is that,without facing came last,we would have won. fear,you cannot succeed at anything because everything that is worth doing will I never will forget that day.Not taking part, be a challenge and will take you out of your being too scared to give it a go,meant my comfort zone. whole team lost.From that day on I decided I would always give something a try,even if Michael Jordan is regarded as the greatest I was scared. basketball player of all times.However, he failed many times,but he never feared Have you ever been too scared to give failing and instead learnt a lot from his something new a try? failures.He said,"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.I've lost almost We are all scared to step out and do 300 games.26 times,I've been trusted to something new or difficult.It is normal take the game winning shot and missed.I've to feel fear in those situations.Everyone failed over and over and over again in my feels it.Every student on that starting life.And that is why I succeed." block at the swimming pool felt scared that day.Every person who has ever swum So remember,overcome your fear and just in a swimming competition felt scared the do it. first time they stood on the starting block. By Christine M Cafferty Doing something new that scares you is called stepping out of your "comfort zone", which is a place that you are comfortable WORD BANK and familiar with.There are many reasons competition n. 比赛，竞赛 to step out of your comfort zone. splash about 哗啦哗啦地使水 飞溅 1)You will become a stronger person.Every make a fool of oneself time you do something that takes you out of 使某人自己出丑 your "comfort zone"and succeed,or even slip away 溜出去：悄悄离开 just survive,your confidence will grow. starting block 起跳台 scowl 怒视 penalty n. 2)Often when something scares you,it is 处罚，判罚 give it a go 尝试一下 something worth doing.It is a challenge that 11 Are you a perfectionist? 你是完美主义者吗？ Susan never gets her assignments in on time or lets a ball go through to the opposite because she is always making last-minute team's posts,he becomes upset and angry changes.She worries that her work isn't with himself.He spends so much time being good enough and never feels satisfied with it. unhappy over his past football games that he After she hands an assignment in,she loses is thinking of giving up the game entirely. sleep thinking of a detail that she feels wasn't perfect and then is so tired that she can't People who are like this might be concentrate properly in class the next day. perfectionists.Do you know someone like this?Are you like this? Rowan's mum never sits with him and talks with him.She is always running around If you answer yes to three or more of trying to make the house cleaner and neater. the questions below then you might be a She is never satisfied with how things are. perfectionist. There is always one more floor to sweep or dish to pack away. If you think that you might be or might know a perfectionist,then read the problems on the Joel gets very frustrated in football. next page that a perfectionist may have. Whenever he misses a ball passed to him, QUESTIONS YES/NO When you achieve something,does the happiness only last for a very short time?Do you almost immediately start thinking of what else you need to do? Are things in your life either right or wrong?Are they either a success or a failure? Do you agree that only when things are perfect and complete,will you feel peace and happiness? Do you feel that your hard work is not enough?Are you only happy when you do something perfectly? Do you judge people and feel that they fail you much of the time? Do you think that people will only value you if you achieve well? 12 Feeling anxious and tired It is good to work hard in your studies, The perfectionist always worries about what interests and in the sports you play.Aim needs to be done next.Instead of taking a for excellence in all that you do.However, break and enjoying what they have already there is a difference between that and being achieved,they push themselves harder to a perfectionist.Excellence is achievable but keep doing more.This leaves them unhappy nothing can be perfect.Your work can be and tired most of the time. excellent,but not perfect.Try to accept that in everything that you do,and in everything Difficulties in relationships and everyone around you,there will be Perfectionists have very high demands of faults.Aim for excellence,not perfection, themselves and of their partners,friends and and you will be a happier person. family members.Because they expect so much,the people in their lives often feel that By Christine M Cafferty they are never good enough.Perfectionists often feel disappointed and angry with the people in their lives. WORD BANK assignment n. 作业，任务 Lack of self-worth demand 7n. 要求；需求 Perfectionists believe that they are not good self-acceptance n. 自我认可 or special enough.They believe that their aim for 力求达到 value comes from what they do and achieve. excellence n. 优秀，卓越 They feel that they have to work in order to achievable ad.可达到的，可获得的 be accepted or good.This is not a good feeling perfection n. 完美 as there is no true self-acceptance in it. 13 Who says it's too late? 谁说已经太迟了？ The lives of too many people are saddened of Marble Collegiate Church in New York by five words:"But it's too late now."A City,Shaw came to me and suggested we person,who never completed high school, have a group of young people sing at our hating his boring job,wishes he could go church services.He led such a singing back and finish his education."But it's too group,and they would be happy to come late now."An office worker,fired because and sing for and with us. she drinks too much alcohol and missed work too often,wishes she could be I thought that this idea would appeal given another chance at the job. to the younger members of our “But it's too late now.” church.So I told him to go ahead.The young people Almost all families have who sang were happy and some broken relationships. enthusiastic,and I thought At first people may be they added something new unwilling to seek peace and were very welcome to with each other.Then,when our church services. some time has passed,they may feel it's too late to offer Unfortunately,some of the an apology or try to make it church members,including two right. of the elders,did not like the new way of singing.They thought that we I say to such people:“Nonsense！It's never should stick with the old and accepted ways too late to correct past mistakes,and never of doing things at Marble Church.They very too late to make a fresh start." clearly told me that they were not happy. As a result,though I did not want to,I told Not long ago I came upon an article Shaw that I was sorry,but I could no longer about the famous and talented musician have the singing group at our church.He Robert Shaw.He was the music director was disappointed,but said he understood. and conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,but has retired now. That I had asked them not to come back would always bother me.I should rather Years earlier,when I was the new minister have done what I believed was right,and 14 had the new singers sing at church. are some past problems or wrongs that require an apology?Maybe there are some Almost 50 years passed.In all that time Ipersonal problems that are unsolved,or never saw or spoke to Robert Shaw.But some good deeds that have not been done. then,as I read the article about him retiring Even if a long time has passed,don't think from the orchestra,I remembered my that it is too late. mistake-and that I had never done anything to fix that mistake It is never too late. When I got home, I wrote a letter to Written by Norman Vincent Peale and revised Robert Shaw telling him that I had been by Christine M Cafferty wrong and was sorry.Almost at once I received a reply from this great man of music.In it he thanked me for being honest WORD BANK and kind.It meant a lot to him.In turn,how happy that made me!It was also proof that sadden 使伤心，使难过 nonsense n. 荒谬的想法：胡说 even after many years,an apology is never symphony orchestra交响乐团 too late. appeal to 对…有吸引力 stick with 坚持 Why not search your mind and see if there 15 NOTES Passage 1 1.However,the biggest problem was that I was scared that I would come last and make a fool of myself..然而，最大的问题是，我害怕自己会最后一个抵达终点，让自己出丑： 2.If there were seven other swimmers,surely it would not be a big deal for me to miss it. 如果还有另外七名游泳选手，那么少我一个也就不是什么大事了。 3.Doing something new that scares you is called stepping out of your"comfort zone, which is the place that you are comfortable and familiar..尝试让你感到恐惧的新事情被 称为走出你的“舒适区”，所谓“舒适区”是指你感觉舒服、熟悉的地方。 Passage 2 1.Perfectionists believe that they are not good or special enough. 完美主义者觉得他们不 够好或不够特别。 2.Aim for excellence in all that you do.However,there is adifference between that and being a perfectionist..Excellence is achievable but nothing can be perfect..做每件事都 要追求卓越。但是，这和做一个完美主义者是有区别的。卓越可以达到，但是完美的事物是 不存在的。 Passage 3 1.I should rather have done what I believed was right,and had the new singers sing at church.我本应该做我认为正确的事情，让那些年轻的歌手在教堂里唱歌。 2.But then,as I read the article about him retiring from the orchestra,I remembered my mistake-and that I had never done anything to fix that mistake..但后来，当我读到 篇关于他从乐团退休的文章时，我记起了自己曾经的错误，并意识到我从未做过什么去弥补 那个错误。 3.Why not search your mind and see if there are some past problems or wrongs that require an apology?Maybe there are some personal problems that are unsolved,or some good deeds that have not been done.为什么不仔细想想，看看过去有没有存在- 些问题或错误需要你去道歉的？或许还有一些没有解决的个人问题或者一些好事还没有去做。 16 EXERCISES Passage 1 1.What was Christine scared of? 2.Did Christine take part in the swimming race? 3.Do you think what Christine did is an effective way to deal with fear?Give your reasons. 4.Why does the writer mention her own experience first? 5.Why is Michael Jordan mentioned in the second paragraph from the end? 6.Can you give some examples of stepping out of your"comfort zone"? Passage 2 1.According to the passage,how does a perfectionist behave?List some examples. 2.Do you have any characteristics of a perfectionist? 3.What problems may a perfectionist have? 4.How does the writer develop the passage? 5.What suggestions does the writer give to perfectionists? 6.What's your opinion on achieving perfection? Passage 3 1.Why do some people say"But it's too late now"? 2.What is the main reason why the writer wrote the passage? 3.What occurred to the writer when he read the article about Robert Shaw? 4.Why did the writer think he should apologise to Robert Shaw? 5.Think of a better solution to the problem of some of the people not wanting to have the singing group at the church,and describe it. 6.What do you think of Robert Shaw? Writing task: Your friend Bingwen is going to compete in a swimming race representing his province. He has never competed at such a high level before and is feeling nervous.You have a conversation with Bingwen in which he shares his fear with you. You encourage your friend and advise him to overcome his fear and do his best.Write down the words that you share with Bingwen(about 120 words).You can use Passage 1, "Overcome your fear"for ideas and vocabulary. 17