1、快樂英語閱讀課題： The Envious Neighbour Teaching aims:1. To be able to improve reading skill in different ways of reading.2. To skim the text and key information from the articles.3. To learn some words and the stories.4. To be able to guess the meanings of new words from the context.Teaching important and

2、difficult points:1. The main idea in each article.2. How to understand the meanings of new words from the context.Teaching period: One periodTeaching procedures: While-readingStep 1 Read Chapter 1 and answer:1. Read quickly for the topic.This passage is about _. A. The little dog is good at sniffing

3、 and digging . B. The little dog helped all the people in the village find the Treasure. C. The little dog helped the old couple find the treasure but he found a parcel of old bones for the envious neighbour , so the neighbour killed it .D. The old couple and their neighbour all gave the little dog

4、all that he liked to eat best. 2. Read carefully for more information. Write a T if the sentence is true , write an F if it is false. ( ) a. One day the old man was working in his garden with his dog. ( ) b. The dog was happy because the old man gave him a lot to eat. ( ) c. The dog helped his maste

5、r find a large box of gold pieces.( ) d. The old couples neighbour helped them look after the dog because he loved the dog. ( ) e. One day , the dog suddenly fell down dead although the neighbour looked after him well . Step 2 Read Chapter 2 and complete.1. Read quickly for the topic. This passage t

6、ells us _. A. The old man made a mortar out of the fig tree after he head a dream about his dog. The mortar helped them got some gold again.B. The little dog helped the old couple make a beautiful mortar out of the fig tree. C. The envious neighbour made a beautiful mortar by himself and found gold

7、too.D. The old couple and their neighbour gathered the rice crop together. 2. Read carefully for more information (1) ( ) Why did the old man cut down the fig tree to make a mortar?A. The tree was too old to bear any more. B. His little dog came back to help the old man . C. In the old mans dream ,

8、his little dog told him to do so. D. The wife of the old man told him to do so . (2) ( ) What did the envious neighbour do when his rice in the mortar turned in to terrible berries ?A. He lent the mortar to the old couple . B. He cut the mortar into pieces.C. He broke the mortar and burnt the pieces

9、.D. He went off with the mortar under his arm .3. Read Chapter 3 and answer the following questions.A. Read quickly for the topic.Whats the topic of the passage ?A. The old man did as his dog in the dream told him to do and got many presents from the king .B. The old man collected the ashes of the b

10、urnt mortar and bring them home .C. The old man made the trees have flowers in winter . D. The envious neighbour sprinkled the ashes into the eyes of the king.B. Read carefully for more information.1. ( ) In the dream his master to collect the ashes of the mortar , sprinkle them on the cherry trees

11、when the king came, and the trees would soon blossom.B. The little dog told his master to collect the ashes and sprinkle them into his neighbour eyes.C. The little dog helped his master catch the neighbour and put him into prison. D. The little dog asked the people in the village to drive the enviou

12、s neighbours away . 2. ( ) What happened when the envious neighbours sprinkled the ashes ?A. The white flowers burst into life on the trees . B. Lots of buds and flowers followed the action .C. The ashes were blown back into the eyes of the king and his warriors.D. The ashes were blown into his own

13、eyes.Post-readingWonderful phrases (精彩短語)A.1. go on with his digging2. be out of our sight3. be filled with anger4. be willing to do sth.5. burst into life6. a great handful of rice Wonderful sentences (精彩句子)1.The dog was so happy at his success that he jumped around , barking loudly .2.He could nei

14、ther eat nor sleep .3.The dog ran up to the foot of a tree, and began to dig wildly .4.At the sight of all , the gold , the old couple were glad , once more they blessed their faithful dog. 5.The moment the man got into his own house , he took a great handful of rice and put it into the mortar.6.As

15、soon as the king was in sight , he should climb up all the cherry trees to sprinkle the ashes on them.Wonderful paragraphs (精彩段落) A. Long long ago, an old couple lived in a village with a little dog. They had no children so they gave all their love to a little dog. One day , the dog helped his maste

16、r find some treasure in their garden when envious neighbour heard the story , he begged the old couple to lend him the dog, so that he might also be rich, while the dog helped him find nothing but a parcle of bones , the neighbour killed the dog in anger. Afterwards , the dog appeared to the old man

17、 in his dream, told him to cut down the fig tree over his grave to make a mortar out of its wood . When the harvest season came, the mortar turned the grains into gold . This time , the envious neighbour borrowed the mortar, but it didnt bring him any treasure , he broke the mortar and burnt the pie

18、ces. Again the dog appeared to his master in his dream he told the old man to collect the ashes of the mortar and when the king came, the old man sprinkled the ashes on the trees , the flowers burst into life at once in winter. The king was happy and gave many presents to the old man . The envious n

19、eighbour did what the old man had done, but the ashes were blown into the eyes of the king and his warriors . He was caught and put into prison. B. This time the old man did not wait to ask his wife. Instead(作為代替), he went straight to his neighbours house and collected the ashes of the burnt mortar. He put them carefully in a china vase(花瓶) and carried it to the high road. There he waited for the king. At this time of the year , trees