1、 1 Unit 2 Learning from Helen Keller Reading Book 2 Unit 2 2 Unit 2 Reading 1. Students get to know the story of a boy and his tree. 2. Students learn to read passages by skimming, scanning and reading between the lines. 3. Students learn to be grateful to their parents. Students read the passage by
2、 skimming and scanning. Students read between the lines. Show the picture. Step 1. Learning & Doing & Thinking 1 What is the main idea of the passage? Learning Show the picture and predict what the passage is about. Doing look at the pictures and arrange them in the cor rect order according to your
3、understanding. The correct order of the pictures is _. Thinking What can you get after looking through the pictures? Step 2. Learning & Doing & Thinking 2 How to get the general idea and detailed information? Learning Read the text quickly to decide which of the following sentences best summarises t
4、he main idea of the text. Doing 2 1) Skimming for the main idea. In this story, the writer means to tell us that _. A. Children can never really understand how much their parents love them until they themselves become parents. B. Parental love is always selfless, endless and unconditional. 2)Scannin
5、g for specific information 1. The reading passage is a _. A. short story B. fable C. novel 2. We can find the moral of the passage _. A. in the first paragraph B. in the middle C. in the last paragraph 3. The passage suggests that _. A. one of the two pots cracked and the water leaked out. B. if we
6、make good use of our weaknesses, they will turn into strengths. C. one of the two pots helped the water bearer water flowers. 4. Which of the following is true according to this passage? _ A. The cracked pot was ashamed of itself of its flaw. B. One should be afraid of his imperfection. 3) T or F 1.
7、 W gave the boy all his apples to buy toys. 3 3. The boy chopped all the branches off the tree to make a boat to go sailing. 4. When the tree had nothing to give , the boy 5. The story tells us that children should give more time and love to parents. Thinking How to get the specific information? We
8、can get the specific information and detailed information through reading skills: scanning and careful reading. Step 3. Learning & Doing & Thinking 3 What are the implied meanings? Learning Think about the question? Doing when What the boy needed/did How the tree felt and what it offered A long time
9、 ago As time went by One day One hot summer day Finally Thinking What moral is the passage? 4 Fill in the blanks to retell the story. A little boy climbed to the top of the tree, ate the apples, took a nap under the shade. Time _ _, and the little boy _ _ and _ _ played around my bra a long time. Finally, the boy returned after being away for so many years. The tree had no more apples and the boy had no teeth to bite. The tree had no more trunk _ and have a rest. The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears. 1. 2. 3. Homework Exercise book P22-23 1.2
