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 determinationdevotion
Help 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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