Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles

New College EnglishIntegrated Course 2

Text A True Height

Text A

True Height

Comprehension

2

Warm-up31

Discussion33

Teaching Procedures

Summary 4

Warm-up

Pole vault

Pole vault

The approach

The take-off

The extension

The turn

The fly away

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2

3

4

5

6

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Woman' sMan' s

6.14 m

5.06m

World Pole Vault Record

Comprehension

2

Warm-up31

Discussion33

Teaching Procedures

Summary 4

Reading strategy: scanning

Find out all the bar heights that Michael has jumped over.

Comprehension

Find out all the bar heights that Michael has jumped over.

paragraph height

P1 & P6 17 feet /

three inches higher than his personal best

P7 17 feet 2

17 feet 4

P12 & P13 17 feet 6 ½

increase his personal best by 9 ½ inches

P9

Comprehension

Find out all the bar heights that Michael has jumped over.

paragraph height

P1 & P6 17 feet /

three inches higher than his personal best

P7 17 feet 2

17 feet 4

P9 17 feet 6 /

nine inches higher than his personal best

P12 & P13 17 feet 6 ½

increase his personal best by 9 ½ inches

Comprehension

Text OrganizationReading strategy: skimming

Read the first sentences of P1-P6. Find the paragragh(s) which describes Michael’s life before the competition.

His palms were sweating.

The stands were filled with about 20,000 people, …

As long as Michael could remember he had always dreamed of flying.

Where he flew would always coincide with his mother’s story.

From the age of 14,Michael did just that.

All of Michael’s vault today seemed to be the reward for his hard work.

Comprehension

P1-2

P3-5

P6-12

P13

The pole vaulting event .

Michael’s dream and hard work (flashback).

The pole vaulting event.

Conclusion of Michael’s achievement.

ComprehensionText Organization

With all the media attention and sponsorship possibilities, Michael’s life would never be the same again. It wasn’t just because he won the National Junior Olympics and set a new world record. And it wasn’t because he had just increased his personal best by 9½ inches. It was simply because Michael Stone is blind.

ComprehensionListen to the last

paragraph.

How can a blind person win the gold medal in pole vaulting event and create world record?

Comprehension

All of Michael Stone’s vault today seemed to be the reward for his hard work. (P 6)

Hard Hard workwork

Dedication

Determination

Discipline

Training program

Comprehension

The intensity of the moment filled his mind with anxiety.(P9)

He pictured his mother.

He began shaking the tension. It wasn’t working. He became more tense. Why was this happening to him now, he thought. He began to get nervous. Afraid would be a more accurate description. What was he going to do?

His mother used to tell him when you felt tense, anxious or even scared, take deep breath.

Comprehension

Interpreting the title

What does the title “True Height” mean?

Comprehension

Obstacles in the competition and life

-Hard training-Anxiety in the competition-Being blind

True Height

Achievement in the competition and life

-Win the gold medal-Create world record-Beat his personal best by 9 ½ inches

ComprehensionInterpreting the title

Pun ( 双关 )

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

----- Moliere

Comprehension

Comprehension

2

Warm-up31

Discussion33

Teaching Procedures

Summary 4

failed dumped depressed

Discussion

Pair work Discuss with your partner:1. What obstacles have you met in your life?2. How do you overcome those obstacles ？

Tips to overcome the obstacles in your life:

1. Be aware that the obstacles in life are temporary.

2. Do not question or doubt yourself.

3. Get started right now.

4. Break your task into smaller tasks.

5. Ask for help.

Discussion

Comprehension

2

Warm-up31

Discussion33

Teaching Procedures

Summary 4

Michael had overcome physical and mental obstacles to win the first place and set a new record in pole vaulting. But what he teaches us is quite beyond that, because he is blind.

Summary

Obstacles Success

Self-confidence

Hard work

Proper strategies

Homework

1.Read books or search online to find stories of overcoming obstacles. Share the stories in the next class.

2.Write a composition of overcoming obstacles, which can be the great people’s story or your own story.

American deaf blind writer Helen Keller

American president Franklin Roosevelt

British scientist Stephen Hawking

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