高一第八單元教案

Teaching Plan for Unit 8 Sports

Chen Xiaoqin from Deqin Senior Middle School, Huzhou

Teaching aims and demands

類別 課程標(biāo)準(zhǔn)要求掌握的項目

話題 1． Talk about sports2． Talk about interests and hobbies3． Talk about the Olympics4． Write a sports star’s profile

功能 Interests and hobbies Which do you like…or …? What’s your favorite sport? Which sport do you like best? Which do you prefer…or…? What about…? Are you interested in…?

詞匯 continent well-known athlete gold medal torch badminton tie final dive shootingGreece competitor motto further rank gymnastics prepare preparation effect flamecompete flag weight position superstar point skill weigh title gesture facialstand for because of speed skating track and field take part in preparation for

語法 Future Passive VoiceThe people of Beijing will plant more trees and build new roads.(陳述句)More trees will be planted and new roads will be built by the people of Beijing.Beijing will hold the 29th Olympic Games in the year 2008.（疑問句）When will the 29th Olympic Games be held in Beijing.

Period Arrangements:

warming up reading materials

Period 1 listening Period 2,3

speaking language focus

listening (WB) complementary listening material

speaking

Period 4 speaking Period 5 complementary reading material

writing(WB)

integrating skill(writing) assessment

Teaching Procedures of Period 1:

Step1.Warming up (15 mins)

Ss know a lot about sports from everyday life and media, so I arrange such a task -discussion(group of 4):

Q: What do you know about sports?

During this process, if Ss can’t express themselves in English, Chinese is also all right. Besides, it is a

good chance to present new words. If necessary, I will make some complements. At the same time, I will present them as many pictures about sports as possible.

Possible response:

school sports meet

Sports meet the National Games

the Asian Games

the Olympic Games

the World Cup

etc

ball games: volleyball, basket ball, football, table tennis, tennis, ,golf

badminton, bowling, baseball, American football, ice hockey etc

Events of sports track and field: relay race, long jump, high jump, pole jump, discus, shot, javelin etc

gymnastic: rings, double bars, high and low bars, horse , free exercise

swimming/shooting/skiing/ ice sports/diving/aquatic sports etc

Sport stars : Beckham, Mike Owen, Michael Jordan etc

Purpose: This activity is designed to encourage students to think about sports and activate relevant vocabulary.

Step 2. Speaking(15 mins)

Task1(pair work): Talk about their favourite sports, favourite sports stars, and the reason why they like them, with the following expressions as a guide.(See SB p52)

Task2(pair work): A survey about physical fitness (See postscript 1)

Task3(group work): Add up their total scores and divide by the number of people. Then get their group’s average scores. Discuss their survey answers.

1). Do you think your group is doing well or not? Why ?

2). How can you become fitter?

Purpose: The students will use the information from the above step to talk about their interests and hobbies and to practise giving reasons for their opinions.

Step 3. Listening (15 mins)

Task 1: Brainstorming(encourage Ss to tell me as many words about that as possible)

Purpose: to work as a guide of listening part.

Task 2: Listen to three sports reports and fill in the missing information

Purpose: In this activity, the students will hear three sports reports about basketball, football table tennis. It is what they are interested in and to learn to understand sports news report.

Step 4. Homework Assignment

Task: Find out some background information about the Olympics. T will offer them some websites as well:

www.olympic.org www.specialolympics.org/

www.athens.olympics.org/ www.beijing-2008.org

Purpose: This activity is related to the reading material of next period. To encourage Ss to find out the information by themselves.

Teaching procedures of period 2

Step1. Lead-in(10 mins)

Task 1. Collect the information Ss have found, and this is a good chance to present new words. If necessary, warming up Ex can work as a guide. At the same time T will display some relevant pictures.

Five rings Aisa Europe Africa America Oceania

IOC International Olympic committee

Headquater Lausanne Switzerland

Motto swifter higher stronger

Present President Jac ques Rogge

Official language English French Spanish Russian German

Host city of 2000 Olympics Sydney Australia

Host city of 2004 Olympics Athens Greece

Host city of 2008 Olympics Beijing China

Host city of the first Olympics Athens Greece

Sort Winter Olympics Summer Olympics

Purpose: to help Ss get as much background knowledge about the Olympics as possible

Task 2.Group work to discuss any of following questions:

1).Why do so many athletes want to take part in the Olympic Games?

2).Are the Olympic Games important to our society? Why or why not?

Purpose: the activity is designed to get Ss to think about the Olympics as a preliminary activity related to the reading material.

Step2. Reading(10 mins)

Task1.Skimming to find out what is the reading material going to talk about.

Possible answer: the Olympics

Task2. Scanning to find the topic words

Possible answer: the Winter Olympics , the Summer Olympics, the ancient Olympics,

the modern Olympics, the Olympic motto, the 2008 Olympics

Purpose: to train Ss to glance through the passage quickly to get a general idea.

Task3. Careful reading to find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Purpose: to train Ss how to find out the main idea of a paragraph.

Step3.Consolidation(10 mins)

Task1. Play the passage through once and ask Ss to underline some words and phrases they think useful.

Task2.Match the new words and their meanings(See WB Ex)

Task3.Fill in a form about the passage

Olympics Year Location China’s gold medals competitors

old Greece no female competitors

1st in modern times

23rd

2000

2008 ? ?

Purpose: to have a better understanding of the passage and note some useful words and phrases.

Step4.Discussion(15 mins)

Task1: Group work (group of 4) to discuss the following topics and they can choose whichever they are interested in talking about.

Topic1. What is the spirit of the Olympic Games? What can you learn from it?

Topic2. Do you agree that” faster, higher, stronger” is a good motto not only for sports but also for life in general? Why?

Topic3.Is it important to win in a sports match? Why or why not?

Topic4.Discuss the causes and effects of some serious problems of the Olympics and think of the possible solutions.

Task2: Debate

Hosting the Olympic games is a great honour and a great responsibility. Since china has won the bidding

of hosting the 2008 Olympics, what will the Olympics bring to China, good effects or bad effects.

good effects bad effects

promote the economy costing a large amount of money

make china better known to the world cause disorder to our society

… …

Purpose: to have a further understanding about the Olympics.

Step5.Homework assignment

Write a report based on the debate carried out in class about the good effects and bad effects of the Olympics. And encourage Ss to express their own idea in the report.

Purpose: to cultivate them how to write discussed topics

Teaching procedures of period 3

Step1. Extensive reading (WB) (15 mins)

Task 1. Read the passage and have a discussion about some related questions.

1).What are some problems that unknown athletes have to deal with?

2).Why are the Olympic Games so important to many athletes?

3).Why do stars like Michael Jordan make more money than other athletes?

Task 2.Pair work Compare the sports listed. Are they popular in china? Why or why not?

Sports Popular /not very popular Reasons

Tennis

Soccer

Table tennis

Badminton

Purpose: to know more about sports and the Olympics.

Step2.Speaking(5 mins)

Task 1. China is going to host the 2008 Olympic Games. To make it the most wonderful and successful one, what will be done ? If necessary, T can display two pictures for contrast.

Task 2. As for Ss, Chinese, what will they do for the 2008 Olympics?

Purpose: to make Ss note the use of Future Passive Voice and Future Active Voice.

Step3. Language focus (25 mins)

Task1. Group work to get a conclusion of the Future Passive Voice and give T more examples.

Structure: Subject+ will be done

Task2. Show Ss a passage about the Olympics, and ask them to change it into passive voice.(See postscript 2)

Task3. Pair work to ask questions about the passage with what , when, where, how etc.

Task4. T has left a note to you ,asking you to write a notice for the students in Future Passive Voice. Work with their partners and write down the notice. Then report it to class orally.

Next week we are going to clear the school as follows:

Monday--- Classroom Building No.1

Tuesday--- Classroom Building No.2

Wednesday--- the computer center and language lab

Thursday--- the science labs

Friday--- the library

Purpose: to consolidate their understanding about the Future Passive Voice.

Step4.Homework assignment

Task1. Finish some consolidation Ex of the Future Passive Voice

Task2. Find out as much information as possible about their favourite sports stars

Purpose: to encourage Ss to do what they are interested in

Teaching procedures of period 4

Step1.Listening(5 mins)

Ss will hear something about some sports stars and make their own decision according to what they have heard.

Step2.Speaking (10 mins)

Guessing Game. Check what Ss have got about their favourite sports star.. Ask some Ss to come up to the front to tell what they have found while others guess the names of the sports stars.

Purpose: to work as a preliminary step of writing.

Step3.Writing (30 mins)

Task 1.Brainstorming. Ask Ss to think out information about Yao ming as much as possible.

Task 2. Read the profile about Yao ming and find out what are the useful information for writing a profile.

Purpose: This activity is to let Ss find out how to write a profile by themselves.

Task 3. Write similar profiles about their favourite sports stars and check some typical ones in class.

Step4.Homework assigment

Suppose the Chinese Olympic Committee is inviting applications for volunteer jobs for the 2008 Olympic Games and Ss want to apply for the job.Try to write a profile to introduce themselves.

Teaching procedures of period 5

Step1.Listening(10 mins)

Complementary listening material: It is important to be able to recognize and understand numbers quickly when listening to spoken English.Many sports listening tasks involve numbers.Listen to the speakers and extract the numbers which are needed to complete these tables.(See postscript 3)

Purpose: to make Ss get used to listening to English sports news in daily life.

Step2.Speaking(10 mins)

Imagine the world in the year 5,000. What will our life be like then? Make a list of the things that you think will be done differently. Try to use the Passive Voice as much as possible.

Example sentences:

Eating food I think all food will be turned into juice and chopsticks won’t be used.

Drinking water

Wearing clothes

Building houses

Driving cars

Reading books

…

Purpose: to revise the language focus in this unit.

Step3.Reading(10 mins)

Read a complementary reading material about sports and finish the relevant Ex.(See postscript 4)

Purpose: to offer Ss further information about sports so that they will have better understanding.

Step4.Writing(15 mins)

Task 1: Group work to talk about the sports as the sample. One member of the group write down what they have got during their discussion and another report what they have written down.

Sport: Soccer Objective: Shoot the ball into the other Team’s goalNumber of players: Two teams of eleven players:ten outfielders and a goalkeepersSports field: Grass playing fieldEquipment: Football,two goalsBasic rules:1. Players are not allowed to use their hands.2. … Sport: Table tennisObjective:Number of players:Sports field:Equipment:Basic rules: Sport:Objective: Number of players:Sports field:Equipment:Basic rules: Sport:Objective:Number of players: Sports field:Equipment:Basic rules:

Task 2: Write a short essay in which you compare two sports

Step5.Homework Assignment

Task1: Since Ss have learned the whole unit, they must know more about sports. After class, ask Ss to find some scenes which have make them moved and tell us the reasons.

Purpose: This activity is designed to check what Ss have learned from this unit.

Task2: Assessment

Purpose: to help Ss to reflect on how and what they have learned from this unit.

Through the whole unit a good many different kinds of assessment have been presented in the form of listening,speaking,reading and writing.But as a whole unit, I design such two forms to let Ss clearly know their own performances.

Form 1: (total score 5)

listening speaking reading writing

Self assessment

Peer assessment

Teacher assessment

Form 2: set improvement goal

Your name Date

a. What were your goals for this unit?

b. Did you reach your goal?

c. What different ways of learning did you use?

d. Which did you like best?

e. What your goals for the next unit?

f. How do you plan to reach them?

g. Will you ask some of your classmates for ideas and try new ways of learning?

The Olympic Games

Our country will