高二英语Life Stories课件3.pptVIP

Reading Speaking “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart.” Learning Objectives In this period, you will be able to 1. Learn to use some useful reading strategies: to predict the general idea to guess unknown words from the context. 2. Find out detailed information in the text. Pre-reading couldn’t see couldn’t hear Reading strategy: prediction Before reading, look at the title, pictures. Read the first two or three lines of the text. Try to guess what the text is going to be about. a. Look at the title---- b. look at the pictures c. Read the first couple of lines: Helen Keller was a very special girl who needed a superb teacher. By the time she was seven years old, she still couldn’t speak, read or write. Can you guess what the passage is about? The passage may talk about how Helen Keller learned something with the help of her teacher. While-reading While-reading Read and find out the examples of words Helen learned. water; doll; think; love What’s the difference among the four words “water; doll; think; love” Table (doll; water): Table (doll; water) “ ” or “ ” 1.The word “love” was a complex word for Helen. 2.Helen didn’t find it difficult to understand the word “love”. 3.The understanding of “think” helped her understand “love”. 4.Helen got to know the meaning of “love” through touching. Summary --- “love” For Helen Keller, trying to learn the word “love” was an 1.__________ for her. When she asked the 2. ________ of it for the first time, she didn’t know many words and she did not understand anything 3. ________she touched it. She wondered whether it meant the 4. _________ of flowers or the 5. ______ of the sun shining. Luckily, the understanding of the word “think” gave her a 6. __________ in learning words. After she understood the 7. ______ word “think”, her mind 8. ________ “love”. In a 9. ______ moment, Helen finally understood the beautiful truth of