（career, knowledge, diamonds, shoot, lively adj., last v., achieve, used to…, more and more, go outside, look like, be proud of）

2. Understand what happened during the writer’s lifetime by reading the title, by task-based reading and by retelling.

3. Get to know that We have to do what we enjoy and enjoy what we do and live a happy life.Difficult

Points1. Know the importance of turning hobbies into career to live a happy life.

2. Understand we need to think while reading and we read for life.Teaching/Learning

Methodsskimming, scanning, task-based reading, listening,

reading aloud, retelling, groupworkTeaching

AidsPPT, the listening audio, text paper, guiding paper Teaching Procedure (T for teacher, Ss for students)ItemsStepsActionsPurposePre-

reading1

Warm-up

(2mins)T asks Ss to focus on the topic From hobby to career about this unit. And play a short video about different hobbies. Then ask Ss What do they like. 一段短片视频带学生走进本课“爱好”主题，激活学生背景知识、调动学生思维并导入本课话题，为下一环节的学习打好基础。Ss read the topic and guess the meaning of From hobby to career. Watch a short video about different hobbies. Then talk about What their hobbies are.

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Lead-in

(3mins)T asks Ss to guess what she likes. And let Ss try to put the events in correct order in teacher’s lifetime.

I turn my hobby into my cacreer.

a. I used to(过去常常) read and write English.

b. I studied English as my major(专业).

c. I got good grades and wanted to learn more.

d. I started learning English.

e. I’m proud of being an English teacher.

Answer: ____---____---____---____---____用教师自己的兴趣爱好和成长经历来引领学生感知“将爱好转化为职业”的幸福情感，为本课目标文本阅读的理解做好文本架构的铺垫，较为符合实际学情，帮助降低阅读难度。Ss try to guess what T likes and put the events in correct order in teacher’s lifetime.While-

reading3

Fast-

reading

(3mins)T gives Ss 2 main questions and asks Ss to read fast to collect for the key information about the writer. Then check the answers.

Fast-reading :

Q1: What’s the writer’s hobby?

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Q2: What’s probably his job now?

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