Lesson 3 Life Stories

Teaching Aim:

a. Learn some useful reading strategy: predicting, general idea, and working out the meaning of important words from the context.

c. Accumulate some synonyms and antonyms

Stage 1 warm up

Give students a brief introduction of Helen Keller, and give them some encouraging sentences written by Helen Keller to appreciate.

Stage 2 learning new words

a. Giving several pictures and match the pictures with English name

Stage 3 reading

b. Introduce the reading strategy to them:

Before reading, look at the title, pictures and the first couples of lines of the text.

c. Read the text to get the general idea. Ignore words you don't know.

d. Read the text again. Try to work out the meaning of important new words. Use a dictionary if you can't.

e. Read any comprehensive questions and try to think of possible answers. Then find answers to questions in the text.

f. Ask students to predict what happened later to Helen Keller.

Stage 4 Understanding of the whole passage

Give students some clues to work out the structure of the passage.

And ask students to retell the story to their partner.

Stage 5 an oral practice for students----What kind of teacher do you think Anne Sullivan is?