Unit 2 Sporting events

Reading

Teaching Aims:

1. Check and enhance students’ reading abilities.

2. Train Ss to gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to adopt different reading strategies.

Teaching important points:

1. Help Ss know some background knowledge about the history and the development of the Olympic Games about.

2. Help them learn some language items.

Teaching difficult points:

1. how to read a speech

2. how to grasp the new words.

Teaching methods:

1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension.

1. Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt.

2. Discussion to make every student work in class.

Teaching aids:

1. the multi-media

2. the blackboard.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1.lead in

1. Talk about the Olympics: ask some questions.

2. Encourage the students to share their information they have already know and to express their opinions freely..

Step 2. Reading

1. Ask Ss to skim the article and answer the three questions in Part A.

2. Ask Ss to reread the passage and do C1 individually.

3. Get Ss to scan the article again and do C2.

4. Help Ss to get the idea of the reading strategies.

5. Ask Ss to answer four questions:

1).What characteristics do the ancient Olympics and modern Olympics share?

2).What are the differences between the ancient and modern Olympic Games?

3).Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan are mentioned in the passage. What do these two sports people have in common?

4).Do you think Chinese athletes such as Deng Yaping and LiuXiang are as great as Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan?

Step 3. Language items.

1. Do D in class.

2. Do E in class

Step 4. Homework.

1． Do Part E.

2． Prepare for the language items.

Period 2 Language Focus

Teaching aims:

1. To understand new words, phrases and sentence patterns in the reading passage;

1. To learn how to use them.

Teaching Important Points:

1. To help the students to understand the text better.

2. To help the students master the use of some important language points.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1. The usage of some words, phrases and sentence patterns.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1.Lead-in

Discuss the following questions:

1.Do you think the Olympic Games help countries and people live peacefully side by side?

2.Who do you think are the greatest Olympic athletes and why?

3.What kind of example do you think athletes like Liu Xiang and Muhammad Ali have set for young people around the world?

Step 2 Words and phrases to be learned

Delighted, significance, briefly, compete, allow, honourable, no matter what, separate, side by side, light, be recognized as, record, contribution, absence, attempt

Step 3 Practice

Do PartA1and A2 on page98

Step 5 Assignments:

1. Keep in mind the useful words, phrases and sentence patterns and know how to use them.

2. Finish some additional exercises