Teaching Steps  Step I Warming Up Step I Warming Up  Steps II Pre-reading Tasks Steps II Pre-reading Tasks  Steps III While-reading Steps III While-reading  Step IV Learn the language points Step IV Learn the language points  Step V Language work Step V Language work  Step VI Assignment Step VI Assignment

Step I Warming Up Learn the Proverb Aims: Learn to understand the cultural elements in the proverb.Talk about the concept of “self-help” Discussion : What do you think this proverb means? Discuss “tough times” and “the tough”. Can you think of someone who has had a tough time? What happened? What did they do ? Have you ever had a tough time? What happened? What did you do?

Step I Warming Up Task : list examples of self-help in life that you know/ have heard about.

Steps II Pre-reading Tasks Introduce the Pre-reading Task. nervous adj. 神经紧张的, 不安的, 强健有力的 thrilled v. 发抖 apprehensive adj. 焦虑的 cheerful anxious miserable adj. 痛苦的, 悲惨的, 可怜 Focus on the meaning of the vocabularies: You may be before a major examination. I was when I saw the person point at me with a knife. We are to know whether our team will win the game against the opposing team. Porter had a childhood. His parents died when he was five years old. Betty is a girl. She always says “Don’t worry, whatever will be will be.” She was for her son’s safety. Present the following sentences and ask the Ss to fill the blanks. nervous thrilled anxious miserable cheerful apprehensive

Steps II Pre-reading Tasks Task : Have the Ss use the adjectives above to make sentences and describe their first day in primary school. nervous thrilled apprehensive cheerful anxious miserable

Steps III While-reading Read the text first then discuss how many parts should have? Main idea. Group work :Howmany parts? The writer’s feeling. Part I (Para. 1) Part II (Para. 2-19) Part III(Para. 20) The writer’s first day at the new school had made him the laughing stock of the classroom. Details about what had happened the first day at school.

Steps III While-reading Read the text first then discuss how many parts should have? Main idea. Group work :What is wthe main idea? The text tells us about the US black novelist Richard Wright’s first day at school. When the teacher asked him to write down his name on the blackboard, he couldn’t do that. Because he was shy in front of a crowd and appeared so dumb. His action made him the laughing stock of the classroom. He regretted what he had done.

Steps III While-reading Richard Wright (1908—1960): US black novelist, born in Mississippi. Brought up in an orphanage, he was educated in local schools through junior high school. Later, he moved to New York. He was a member of the Communist part from 1932 to 1994, after the Second World War, he moved to Pairs. He began publish novels, plays and articles in 1938 and his most widely known novel in Native Son (1940). Notes:

Steps III While-reading Pair work : Discuss the questions in Comprehension work (A ).Task

Step IV Learn the language points paralyzing adj.---paralysis n.---paralyses pl. void: vacant, empty frantically adv. 狂暴地, 疯狂似地 exclusion n. 排除, 除外, 被排除在外的事物 utterly: completely adv. 完全地, 绝对地, 彻底地 dump stupid Have the Ss underline some difficult words or phrases. Encourage Ss to look up the information on the dictionary

Step IV Learn the language points Have the Ss underline some difficult words or phrases. Encourage Ss to look up the information on the dictionary giggled: laugh quietly in a silly childish uncontrolled way. stiffened: not easily bending or moving impulse: sudden, strong desire, sudden wish to do sth. coax: persuaded with kind words. flash: to appear as a sudden very bright flame titter: laugh in a silly way whispered: say sth. in a low voice desperately: suffer extreme need, anxiety or lose of hope. redeem vt. 赎回, 挽回, 恢复, 补偿, 兑换

Step V Language work My first day at the new school made me the laughing stock of the classroom. --- The behaviour I acted in school the first day had made me laugh at by other people. As I was about to… ---- When I was going to…( just at that time, sth. happened) I could not remember my name, not even… --- My brain became empty, I could not remember everything, not only my name, but also… Spell it slowly so I can hear it Spell your name letter by letter so that I can hear clearly. I tried frantically to collect my senses but I could remember nothing I tried to concentrate, but in a hurried and disorder way, still I couldn’t remember anything. Learn the Useful Structures and Expressions

Step VI Assignment Many students in our schools are like Richard Wright. They have experienced learning difficulties in one way or another. Work individually first on the worksheet and then work in groups to suggest ways to address these problems. Activity (Coping with learning difficulties.)