本节课的阅读文本是Mother of Ten Tousand Babies,主要的主要话题是Learn to make choices in life，因此教学设计结合两个问题What were her hard choices?和 How did she make choices in life?展开。回答What were her hard choices?时，依托思维导图中choice、difficulty和reason三个维度梳理有关hard choices的相关信息；学习用一个句子表达这三个维度的语言；理解choices之间的关系。通过关联choices之间的关系分析How did she make choices in life?， 总结出林巧稚在做选择时的guiding principle, 即“Never forget why you have started and always put the needs of others first”。