Lesson 3 Life Stories

Teaching Aims:

① Learn some useful reading strategy: predicting, general idea, and working out the meaning of important words from the context.

② Learn to retell a story according to time order

③ Accumulate some synonyms and antonyms

Teaching important and difficult points

①. Learn some useful reading strategy

②. Retell a story according to time order

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

Task1: Look at the picture and talk something about Helen Keller

Task2: Talk about some famous people and their events

Ⅱ. Pre-reading

Introduction about Helen Keller

Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968), was an author, lecturer, and humanitarian whose unusual life and dedicated 献身的 work had an international influence on the lives of the disabled (残疾人). She became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months through a damaging brain fever and could communicate only through hysterical 歇斯底里 laughter or violent tantrums 发怒. But, with the help of her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan, Keller learned to read barilla盲文 and to write by using a special typewriter. Bibliography自传: Keller, Helen, the Story of My Life and Teacher (1955); Waite, H. E., Valiant Companions: Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy (1959);

Ⅲ. Reading

Task 1: Reading strategy (1)