· Can changing attitude towards difficulties help you overcome your difficulty?
· Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of difficulties and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. —Helen Keller
Do you agree?
· From time to time, we all face hardships, problems, accidents, and difficulties. Some are of our making but many are not fault of our own. Although we cannot choose the difficulties, we can choose our attitude towards them. Thus, never complain but explain how to face and overcome them.
What’s your advice?
· Someone would like to pay money to do exercise in a gym to exercise his heart and lungs, or lose weight and get fit. But unluckily, they often fail. What should they do?
What’s your difficult now?
What have you done to overcome it?
· Can the way to overcome difficulties in the passage help you?
Do in-class learning.
Read for key words.
· What are the key words of the passage?
· How do you know they are key words?
· Can the key words help you understand the passage more quickly and better?
· Why or why not?
· How do you find key words of a passage?
How can we find key words?
· Read the title. Key words may stand in the title.
· Read the first sentence of each paragraph.
Find the most frequent words. They may be the key words of the whole passage.
· Read the last sentence of each paragraph.
Find the most frequent words. They may be the key words of the whole passage.
Read for quotes(“ ”)
· What are the quotes in the passage?
· Can they help you understand the passage more quickly and better?
· Why or why not?
Read for the ideas.
· What is the author’s main idea?
· How does the author support the main idea?
· Let’s find the structure of the idea and supporting parts.
· Can the structure help you understand the passage more quickly and better?
· Why or why not?
Think and discuss.
· Can we overcome all difficulties by changing our attitude?
· Why or why not?
Think and discuss.
· Some people think that changing attitude towards difficulties do help them, but some people think it is kind of self-comforting, or self-cheating, or Ah Q.
· What is your opinion?
Do the task.
·Can changing attitude towards difficulties help you overcome your difficulty?
Think and answer.
· What helped you in your discussion? Your reading skills or your life experience?
· Can reading skills help us understand the value of the passage better and deeper?
· Why or why not?
· What can reading skills help us understand?
· What can life experience help us understand?
Make a summary.
· In reading.
· Reading skills can help us understand the meaning of passages quickly, better…
· But our life experience can help us understand the value of passages better, deeper…
Grade 8 Reading(7月)
Your choice Learning goals
5 4 3 2 1 Check your pre-class learning.
5 4 3 2 1 Learn to find key words.
5 4 3 2 1 Learn to read quotes.
5 4 3 2 1 Learn to make a story line.
5 4 3 2 1 Learn to overcome your difficulty.
Get to know today’s task.
·What is your biggest difficulty now?
·How can you overcome it, changing attitude or doing actions?
Which do you agree?
A. Attitude is everything.
B. Action is everything.
C. Attitude plus action is everything.
D. ___________________________
Do you agree?
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of difficulties and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
A. I agree. B. I disagree. C.I partly agree.
Do you agree?
From time to time, we all face hardships, problems, accidents, and difficulties. Some are of our making but many are not fault of our own. Although we cannot choose the difficulties, we can choose our attitude towards them. Thus, never complain but explain how to face and overcome them.
A. I agree. B. I disagree. C.I partly agree. D.______
What’s your advice?
Someone would like to pay money to do exercise in a gym to exercise his heart and lungs, or lose weight and get fit. But unluckily, they often fail. What should they do?
A. Pay more money. B. Play football. C. Ride bikes to work. D.______
What’s your biggest difficulty now?
A. It’s hard for me get higher marks.
B. I don’t like some subjects.
C. I don’t have enough time for play.
D.__________________________
How can you overcome your difficulty?
A. By changing attitude.
B. By doing actions.
C. By changing attitude and doing actions.
D.__________________________
Read for key word.
·Key words help you understand passages more quickly and better.
·What are the key words of this passage? attitude change
How can we find key words?
· Read the title.
· If no, read the first sentence of each paragraph. Find the most frequent words.
· If still no, read the last sentence of each paragraph. Find the most frequent words.
Read the quotes(“ ”)
· Find the quotes in the passage and read them.
·Quote in passage can help you understand the passage more quickly and better.
Read for the structure.
· What is the author’s main idea?
· How does the author support the main idea?
Do the task.
· What is your biggest difficulty now?
· How can you overcome it, changing attitude or doing actions?
Make a summary.
· Reading for key words from the title, first or last sentence of each paragraph, reading quotes, reading the structure can help us understand the meaning of passages quickly, better.
· We can overcome our difficulty by changing our attitude and doing actions…