When I was in the middle school, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to write so many famous books for the children.
But my parents wanted me to be a businesswoman because they wanted me to earn lots of money.
So when I left high school and had to choose one subject to study, I was at my life’s crossroads. But in the end, I listened to my heart and went to the teachers’ college school.
★预测选择，激发学生阅读的好 奇心。
B) Read the first paragraph. Find the answer. Then more questions: 1. When was the writer at his crossroads? 2. What was the crossroad? 3. So as you know, the writer met the same career problem as I. Now being a teacher is my career. Let’s see how the writer
What made him have such a
What did the writer choose as his career at last?
choice? 带领学生对下文逐一小节进行
B）Careful reading
细读。
逐段细读课文，引导学生将“自己”置身故事中，体会长句、
2
重点词语，以不断深入理解作者想要表达的主旨。
I still remember my crossroads and I haven't regretted my choice till now.
★ 讨论： 人生梦想，交流未来希望从事
的职业。
★ 交流教师人生经验，引出: crossroads listen to my heart
Step Two While-reading Part One
will deal with his career problem.
★ 提问，加强对文章第一小节的 深刻理解。
Part two
A ) Fast reading 快速阅读课文，找到作者最终选择的职业。
★ 追问：
Read through the rest of the passage, and answer the qustion.
题目预测，并通过细读第一小节，找到正确的预测的答案， 并根据语境，理解关键词 “career” A) At life’s crossroads. The crossroads in the title may refer to ___________. A. which college to go B. who to get married to C. where to live D. which company to work E. what to learn for the future job
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板 书 设 计One Pre-reading ★通过交谈梦想，切入阅读主题 Having a talk with the teacher about jobs. 1) Do you have a dream about your life? 2) What’s your dream of life? Why? 3) Listen to the teacher’s dream and her job.
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教 1. 学生能提高猜词悟意、领悟关键句、预测推断的英语阅读能力。 学 2. 学生能提高对语段的整体理解能力。（文章的主旨大意） 目 3. 学生能联系自己生活实际，与作者对职业选择的人生经历产生共鸣，并能用英 标 语表达。
Paragraph 2 Understand the long sentence.
Both my uncles suggested I work for a month in a company followed by a month in a hospital before I could know what to do.
学生填写完后，听录音模仿朗读。 That were his uncles’ _____________: “First, you should work in the _________ for a month. Then you worked in ___________ for a month. So you could know what you liked to do by comparing the two experiences.”
Paragraph 3 回答并选择图片
1) What did the writer feel about the work in the bank? 2) What about the work in hospital? 3) How do you understand the phrase “hard training”? 4) So it is easy for the writer to make a choice, but…
★ 变换句型，准确理解句子意 思。
模仿朗读，以理解句子意思。
★ 通过对比图片来帮助学生对 两种职业状况的理解。 Business: good working conditions. Hospital: excitement,