Teaching Contents:
The passage is about hobbies. It points out the benefits brought by hobbies and introduces David Smith's hobbies and how his writing hobby brings him pleasure and success.
Teaching Objectives:
(1) Knowledge objective
Students can know the development of David's writing hobby.
(2) Ability objectives
① Students can improve their reading ability to catch the key and detailed information. ② Students can improve their speaking ability to talk about their hobbies.
(3) Emotional objective
Students can realize the importance of developing good hobbies.
Teaching Key and Difficult Points:
How to improve students' reading abilities and help them to retell the development of David's writing hobby.
Major Steps:
Step 1 Pre-reading (3 minutes)
Ask students to talk about the following questions and invite some students to share their answers.
(1) What are your hobbies? How do you develop your hobbies?
(2) Do you think hobbies are good for you? Why?
(Justification: This step can draw students' attention, and make them prepare for reading the text.)
Step 2 While-reading (10 mlnntes)
Activity 1: Fast reading
Ask students to read the passage quickly and then conclude the main idea of each paragraph.
Activity 2: Careful reading
(1) Ask students to read the passage again and answer the following questions:
① What are the advantages of hobbies to people according to the passage?
② How did David develop his writing ability during summer vacation?
③ What did David do after he went back to school?
④ What other hobby does David have?
(2) Ask students to read the passage for the third time and conclude the development of David's writing hobby

(Justification: Different ways of exploiting the text can help students not merely to cope with the text in class but to develop students' fast reading and careful reading abilities.)
Step 3 Post-readlng (7 minntes)
(1) Ask students to try to retell the passage according to the table above and choose two students to show in class.
(2) Ask students to work in pairs to talk about the development of their hobbies, and then let three pairs to show in class.
For example:
S1: What is your hobby?
S2: My hobby is ...
S1: When do you like ...?
S2: ... What is your hobby?
S1: ...
(Justification: Through the practice, students' speaking ability to talk about their hobbies can be trained, and the
atmosphere in class can be activated.)