Step

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

Aims

Warming-up

Play the song You Are Not Alone.

Enjoy the song and try to sing with it.

To arouse the students’ interest and show the title.

Leading-in

Show the Ss two pictures.

Guess what the passage is mainly about.

Prediction with the help of viewing the pictures.

Listen and judge T or F

Play the tape.

1. Listen to the tape and judge T or F. If it’s false, tell the reason.

(    )1. Something terrible happened to Jason Glen on the second day of school.

(    )2. Jason’s classmates came up with a plan to help him.

(    )3. Jason’s school had a car wash and clothes sale and raised $1200.

Practise listening to get the brief information of the passage.

Read and explain

Ask the Ss to read the lesson and find some clue words to explain the underlined words and expressions.

Read the text and try to find some clue words to help explain the meaning of the underlined new words and expressions.

Develop the Ss’ ability of guessing the meaning of new words and expressions.

Read and find

Help the Ss read the text again and try to find out what /why/how questions.

Read and try to answer the questions.

Try to ask more questions freely and correctly. Then try to retell the text or give the passage a prediction.

Get the Ss to know the ways of caring and helping Jason and his family and then know more detailed information.

Develop the Ss’ logical thinking skills.

Discuss

Organize the Ss to discuss the ways of helping others.

Offer the Ss a short passage about donating and raising money.

【CCTV held a charity(慈善) show in May to raise money for the earthquake-hit areas(震区)  in Sichuan. Many famous stars took part in the show. They didn’t ask for any pay, they all did it for free. There were a lot of performances like singing, dancing and cross-talks(相声 ). During the show, they donated money to the disaster areas(灾区). 】

Discuss one of the ways and get more ideas from the extra reading.

Read at least(至少) one passage(一段) and find out how she/he offers(提供) help.

【Mario loves animals and wants to be an animal doctor. He volunteers at an animal hospital every Saturday morning.Mario believes it can help him to get his future dream job. “It’s hard work,” he says, “but I want to learn more about how to care for animals. I get such a strong feeling of satisfaction(满意) when I see the animals get better and the look of joy on their owners’ faces.”

Mary is a book lover. She could read by herself at the age of four. Last year, she decided to try out for a volunteer after-school reading program. She still works there once a week to help kids learn to read. “The kids are sitting in the library, but you an see in their eyes that they’re going on a different journey with each new book. Volunteering here is a dream come true for me. I can do what I love to do and help others at the same time.

It was a cold and snowy morning. On my way to my new school, a girl on a bike passed me quickly. She was riding on ice when suddenly she fell off her bike a few steps in front of me. Without thinking, I went over and helped her stand up. She said, “Thank you,” with a smile and then rode away. The words “Thank you” warmed me and this small event made me feel less nervous about my new school.】

Develop the Ss’ thinking skills, especially their creative thinking .

Enlarge the Ss’ vocabulary and open their mind.

Share feelings of helping others

Play a video and let the Ss talk about how helping others affects our life.

Watch the video and talk about their feelings about helping people.

Call on them to be aware of the importance of offering help.

Project

Introduce some students who need help.

Group Work: How can we help them?

Listen and get the main information.

Discuss in groups and find ways to show care and offer help.

To solve problems with what they learn today.

Summary

Show a poem.

Read the poem and feel about it.

Focus on the meaningfulness of helping others.

Homework

1. Find more ways of helping others in our daily life.

2. Finish the exercises on Page 41.  

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