Unit 2

What is happiness to you? Project Making a happiness handbook

Talk about the pictures:

1. What do you think these pictures are about? 2. What is your opinion of happiness?

Brainstorming

Teenagers

Young people

Football players

Skimming1. What are these two essays about?2. Are both of the writers old or young?

Reading

For the first essay:1.Is the writer an old man? How do you

know that?2. Why does the writer think those days

were happy?3. What does the writer think young

people can do while old people can’t?

Scanning

For the second essay:1. Is the writer a teenager or an adult ? How do you know that?2. Why does the writer think that his or her happiest days will be in the future?3. What does the writer think an adult can do while a teenager can’t ?4. Why does the writer think it is nice to think the happiest days are still ahead of them?

Scanning

Teenagers Old people

Advantages Disadvantages Advantages Disadvantages

Fill in the following table according to the two essays:

Share your happiest time withyour group members.

Discussion (group work)

Finish project (group work)

PlanningIn the groups of four, choose a topic for their group’s happiness handbook.(eg. Happiness in the past)

   PreparingTake notes of the story:1.  Is it a specific happy event or a general feeling of happiness?2.  How long will the essay be?3.  Should it be typed or handwritten?4.  Are illustrations needed in your handbook?

Producing1.Each group member should write an essay.2.One should check the essay.3.Another should make the cover 4.Another will put all the essays together.5.Another will make the table of contents.

PresentingPut their handbooks up on the display wall of their classroom for everyone to see and let the class vote for their favourite.

Understanding the transcript of the interviewReading an interviewUsing the new vocabulary in the interviewDiscussing your ideas about happinessUsing nouns to describe emotionsUsing adjectives to describe emotions

Self- assessmentHow confident are you of ?

A.Not confident B. slightly confident C. Confident D. Quite confident

Using the past perfect tense

Using the simple future tense

Using the future continuous tense

Using idioms about emotions

Using the simple past tenseUsing the past continuous tense

Self- assessmentHow confident are you of ?

Using the future in the pastIdentifying negative emotional languageBreaking a big question into smaller onesGiving adviceReading essays about happinessWriting about happiness

Self- assessmentHow confident are you of ?

Homework1. Finish the WB exercises2. Revise some language points of this period. 3. Finish the Group’s work----making a happiness handbook.