Lesson two life stories
Teaching aims
To talk about personal experiences
To
revise strategies for approaching and understanding
unseenreading texts
To practice looking for synonyms of opposites
Teaching aids
Cassette a box of candy
Teaching difficult point
Students with weak
vocabulary many find the text difficult and struggle of find synonyms of opposites
Teaching procedures
Step one Greetings
Great the whole class as usual
Step two Lead-in
Start the class with the teacher’s story
Encourage the students to tell each other their own unforgettable experience
Step three Talk about the picture
Draw students’ attention to the picture
Ask a student to introduce the two characters--Helen and Sullivan
Sign language for the mute and the deaf
(lady) (smile) (cry) (love passion) (read)
Braille
system for the blind to read
a/1
b/2
c/3
d/4
e/5
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Step four Reading strategies
Ask students to read the strategies
Use the strategies to read the passage
1
predict what the text is about
Use the title, the picture, the first few lines
2 read the passage to get the general idea
Six minutes to read the passage. Check whether their
prediction is right. If not, try to conclude one.
3 work out the meaning of the new words
Match the new words with their synonyms
superb
severe
precious
eager
straightforward
restriction
former
apparent
valuable
obvious
direct
limit
keen
serious
outstanding
precious
4 deal with the
comprehension questions
Students read the passage again to find the answers to the questions.
Then discuss with their partners
Step five Discussion
What can we learn from Helen Keller’s story ?
Courage strong will
determinationdevotionHelp and understand the disabled
Step six Conclusion and homework
Summarize the class
We’ve
learned a new skill to read the passage
We’ve talked about life stories ……….new words
Homework
Read the passage after class
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