The search for happiness

 Can you name any famous people with disabilities you admire? What do they have in common? Pre-reading

Zhouzhou conductor mentally disabled

To those disabled person, happiness means……

The search for happiness

the first paragraph find out the topic of the interview, who the interviewee is and what he does. How to read an interview

each question the interviewee’s response the background of the topic. the following paragraphs

1. What’s the topic of the TV interview? 2.Who is the interviewee and what he does? 3. What are the questions of the interviewer? Skimming Happiness Dr Brain. He is a psychologist.

Can you tell us a little bit about Sang Lan and who she is ? How old was she when the accident happened? How has she adapted to her new life?

Scan to find the background information of Sang Lan: Age:___ Age of being disabled:___ Birthplace: _____________ Teammates’ comments: ___________________________ Ningbo, China energetic, happy, hard-working

1981 ______________________ 1987 ______________________ 1991 _____________________________ 1998 ______________________ __________________________ 2008 __________________________________ _______________________________ was born began learning gymnastics. began learning gymnastics. started winning competitions had an accident during Goodwill games will play table tennis in the special Olympics for disabled people Scan to find out what Sang Lan did in 1981, 1987, 1991, 1998 and 2008.

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( )1. The topic of the TV interview was the story of Sang Lan. ( )2. Dr Brain studies happiness. ( )3. Sang Lan became a gymnast when she was eleven years old. ( )4. Sang Lan was injured in China in 1998, while practicing for the Goodwill Games. F F T F the search for happiness six New York C1

( )5. Before her accident, Sang Lan’s best event was the vault. ( )6. Sang Lan broke her legs and will never walk again. ( )7. Leonardo DiCaprio visited Sang Lan in the hospital. ( )8. Sang Lan believes doing no work keeps her happy. F F T T neck keeping busy helps her to stay positive

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Finish Part E ( P21) dedicated, mistake, walk, neck, visitors, positive, journalism, programme Consolidation

Let’s retell Sang Lan’s story! Sang Lan's story Period 1: from 1981 to 1998 gymnast… an accident … would never walk again Period 2: while staying in hospital cheer..up… in good spirits…overcome disappointment… Period 3: since her return to China study journalism… stay optimistic… stay positive

Before Accident

successful in her sport when she was young energetic, happy and hard-working trying to make her parents proud

While in hospital She remains cheerful. Leonardo DiCaprio

to study journalism to host a sports programme to hope to play table tennis Back to China

Life as a TV presenter Interview Yao

Discussion: 1.What adjectives can you use to describe Sang Lan?  … ….

2.Suppose one day you were disabled, how would you go on living.

Summary It’s impossible for anyone of us to predict what misfortunes might occur in our life. Remember happiness can be created by ourselves. No matter what happens in the future, the most important thing is to hold on until we succeed or reach our goals. We should not give up halfway when we meet with difficulties.

People don’t lack strength,they lack will. ----Hugo 人缺失的不是力量，而是意志。 ( 雨果 ) Chances favor the minds that are prepared. ----Pasteur 机遇总是垂青于有准备的人。 ( 巴斯德 ) Every man is the master of his own fortune. ----R. Steels 每个人都是自己命运的主宰者。 斯蒂尔斯

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