Teaching Aims:

1. Train the students reading ability especially the skills of summarizing and scanning.

2. Study and have a good grasp of some keywords and phrases.

3. Learn to analyze some difficult long sentences.

Pre-reading

Ask some questions about some famous men and women. Talk about LiuXiang, Deng Yaping etc. They all have broken the world records.

Introduce something about records. For example: Our school students broke the school records in the sports meeting. Ask the students some questions such as: Can you tell me why they set the record? When you break the record, what do you think of yourself? etc.

Today, we will learn about the Guinness Book of world records. Before reading the passage, look at the questions in your books in P3.

1Who was Sir Hugh Beaver?

2When was the first edition of the Guinness Book of World Records published?

3How long is the longest moustache in the world?

4What Guinness records were set in Urumqi and Hong Kong?

5Who won the Tour de France in 2003?

Reading

Read the passage carefully then answer these questions.

Keys.

1 The then director of the Guinness Brewery.

2 In 1955

3 1.6 metres.

4 Urumqi is the remote city from the sea and the world’s largest jiaozi was make in Hong Kong.

5 Armstrong

Listening: Listen to the tape ,then do these exercises.

Post-reading

Exercise 1 Fill in the form

The record Name and number

The oldest person 1

The longest poisonous snake 2

The largest square in the world 3

1 A woman, 122 years and 164 days 2 5.71metres long 3 Tian’an men square, about 40 hectares.

Exercise 2 Match each paragraph with the main ideas.

paragraph one; paragraph two; paragraph three; paragraph four; paragraph five; paragraph six

1 the reason that people are very interested in world records.

2 how to set a record on Guinness Book

3 Many of the records in the Guinness Book of World Records come from the world of the sports.

4 There are many Chinese records in Guinness Book.

5 How and when does the Guinness Book come from.

6 Introduce the Guinness Book

Keys: 1 paragraph five; 2 paragraph six; 3 paragraph four; 4 paragraph three;

5 paragraph one; 6 paragraph two.

Exercise3 questions

1 Why are Lance Armstrong’s records special?

2 Why do you think many people are interested in world records.

Keys:1 He was diagnosed with cancer but he never give up and he went on to set the speed record.

2參照 Paragraph 5.

Homework: Read the text and pay attention to the phrases and some difficult sentences.