快乐英语阅读课题： The Selfish Giant 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 their stories.4. To be able to guess the meanings of new words from the context.Teaching important and difficult points:1. The main idea in each article.2. How to understand the meanings of new words from the context.Teaching period: One periodProfile of the author:Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo-Irish family. He was a playwright(剧作家)， poet and author of numerous(许多的) short stories and a novel. His father was Irelands leading eye and ear surgeon(外科医生) and his mother was a poet and author.Teaching procedures:While-readingStep 1 Read the article , write a T if the sentence is true or an F if it is fause.( ) 1. At first, the giant is friendly.( ) 2. The giant allowed others to play in the garden.( ) 3. Children didnt like to play on the road.( ) 4. The little boy often played with the giant.( ) 5. The giant missed the little boy very much.Step 2 Read the article , answer the following questions.1. What did the children do when they finished school every afternoon?_2. Were the children happy in the garden?_3. Which season was in the garden when the Spring came outside?_4. Why wouldnt the Spring come in the giants garden?_5. Why didnt the little boy run away?_Post-readingStep 3 Key Excerpt1. Wonderful phrases (精彩短语)a. see the children playing in the gardenb. cry in a very angry voicec. put up a notice boardd. invite the North Wind to stay with theme. run round and round the garden as fast as he could go f. look out at his cold white gardeng. dance about through the treesh. sing with delighti. break at once into blossomj. be very kind to all the children2. Wonderful sentences (精彩句子)a. The Snow covered up the grass with her great white jacket, and all the trees were in white.b. He was dressed in grey, and his breath was like ice.c. But the Spring never came, nor the Summmer.d. One morning, the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music.e. The Giant ran downstairs in great joy, and out into the garden.f. Today you shall come with me to my garden, the Paradise.3. Wonderful paragraphs (精彩段落)(1). It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. How happy we are! they cried to each other.(2). Suddenly he rubbed his eyes in wonder and looked and looked. In the farthest corner of the garden was a tree quite covered with lovely white blossoms. Its branches were golden, and silver fruit hung down from them, and underneath it stood the little boy he had loved.4. Summary of the content (内容梗概)The story mainly tells us a story of a very selfish giant. He kept the children out of his personal garden because of his selfishness. By doing this, he also stopped spring, joy and happiness from coming. After a long period of waiting for spring, joy and happiness, he realized his selfishness and started to behave more generously. Spring, joy and happiness all came back along with the happy children. In the end, the giant died happily and peacefully. He was brought to the heaven by the little boy he had once helped.Step4 Questions and insights 1. Questions after reading Why do the Spring go with the children in the article?2. Insights after reading The hearts of the children are very pure. They treat everybody the same way. They act out directly what they think in mind. They never hide. They forgive others faults instead of remembering them. I think if we all face our lives with less vision for the future, if we focus more on what we own at present, if we treat life much easier, life will be much better.