Unit 2 Sporting events
教学设计 Welcome to the unit Teaching Aims: 1. Participate in a discussion to find out why sports are popular around the world.
2. Develop students’ speaking ability by expressing their opinions in the discussion. Teaching Important Point: Develop students’ speaking ability. Teaching Methods: Individual, pair or group discussion to make every student work in class. Teaching Aids: 1. The multimedia 2. The blackboard
Teaching Procedures; Step 1 Greeting and Lead-in 1. Do you like sports? What sports can you play? 2. What sports do you know? 3. Who is your favorite sportsperson? 4. Do you like playing sports? How much time do you usually spend exercising or doing sports every week?
Step 2 Welcome to the unit Sport plays a very important role in our lives. We see or do sports almost everyday. Look at the following pictures. Are you familiar with these sports? 1. table tennis
Can you play table tennis? Do you like it? Is it your favourite sport? Why? 2. Wrestling
How much do you know about wrestling? (a short introduction of wrestling) 3. Boxing
Do you like watching it? (a short introduction of boxing) 4. In your opinion, do you think these Sports are too violent?
5.Kung fu is a traditional sport in China? Are you interested in it?
6.Which do you prefer, Kung fu or boxing? 7.Itroduction of gymnastics and diving. Step 3 Pair Work 1. To become a professional gymnast or a diver, you have to sacrifice(牺
牲) a lot. What do you think these sacrifices would include?(group discussion) 2.basketball and football, which do you prefer?
3.No matter what kind of sport you take part in ,what are the basic qualities you need to possess in order to be successful in that sport?) (video of Jordan) Step 4 Group Work 1. Why do you think sport is so popular?2. How often do you play sport? What sports do you usually play?3. What is your favourite sport? Why? Step 5 Homework 1.Find more information about the business of sport. 2.Preview reading text.
Reading Teaching Aims: To read and understand a speech
To learn the common elements of a speech and try to identify them To improve reading comprehension and master the basic reading skills Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Lead-in 1. Talk about the Olympics ( with slide-showing)
As we all know, the Olympic Games are held every four years and it is a great honour for a country to host the Games. How much do you know about the Olympics, fro example, its history, ceremonies and sporting events? How many Olympic games did you see? Where were they held? Do you think they are exciting? Why?
Who is your favourite athlete and who do you think is the greatest Olympian? Why? 2. Share the information and express their opinions freely.
Step 2: Reading comprehension 1. Go through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers fto the three questions in Part A. (Only focus on and identify the information needed to answer these questions.) What is the speech about? The history and significance of the Olympic Games.
Where were the ancient Olympic Games held? At Olympia Greece. Who restarted the modern Olympic Games? Pierre de Coubertin.
2. Read the passage again and complete Parts C1 and C2. Check the answers with the slide-showing as a class.
3. Further reading comprehension:
What characteristics do the ancient Olympics and the modern Olympics share?
What are the differences between the ancient and the modern Olympic Games? Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan are mentioned in the passage. What do these two sportspeople have in common?
Do you think Chinese athletes such as Deng Yaping and Liu Xiang are as great as Muhammad Ali or Michael Jorddan?
4. Complete Parts D and E. ( to improve the students’ ability to understand the meaning of new words from the context and become more familiar with the text)
5. Recall the quotations , interesting stories and statistics in the speech.
6. Read the speech again and think about the criteria for a good speech. And then after discussing the following questions, take note on the blackboard. Do you think it is difficult to give a speech in front of an audience? Why or why not?
What makes a good speech and a good speaker?
What are the things a speaker should attach importance to?
Is there any relationship between the different topics the speaker mentions? (Express the opinions freely.) Step 3: Post-reading activities 1. Go over Part F and discuss the questions in pairs.(Any possible answers are acceptable.) 2. If time permits, have a class debate on the following subject:
Hosting the Olympic Games is a great honour for a country, but at the same time it costs a lot of money. Do you think hosting the Olympics will be a good opportunity to develop the host country’s economy and tourism, or will it be a heavy burden on the economy? Step 4: Homework: Finish the exercises in workbook.
Word power Teaching aims: 1. To enlarge students’ vocabulary by applying the rules of making compound words. 2. To get students to learn some words and expressions related to Olympic sports. 3. To improve students’ speaking ability. Teaching Important and Difficult Point: To master the formation rules of compound words. Teaching Approaches: Task-based approaches Form of Activities: Individual, pair or group work ..
Teaching Aids: The multimedia and the blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Lead-in Ask the students to read the following dialogue:
A: Did you know that Liu Xiang was the first Asian to win a gold medal for the men’s 110-metre hurdles in the Olympic Games?
B. Yes! Everyone knows that he is a very hard-working sportsperson. He is a well-trained winner. Let the students study the italicized words and ask them two questions:
1. Do you know the meanings of the words? 2. Do you know how the words are made?
Give them a few minutes to think. They may discuss with their partners if necessary. 110-metre(n.)--- 110 (num.), meter (n.)
hard-working (adj.)--- hard (adv.), working(v-ing) sportsperson (n.)--- sports(n.), person(n.) well-trained (adj.)--- well(adv.), trained (v-ed) Step 2. Compound words
1. Tell students that the above words are called compound words. Ask them to give the definition of a compound word:
A compound word is made when two or more than two words are joined together to form a new word. 2. Ask students to think about other words that are created this way. Organize them into groups of four and have a competition. Write all the compound words that students can think of on the blackboard. The winning group is the one that comes up with the most words.
3. Have students study the words that they have listed and then read the words on page26 to understand the formation rules of compound adjectives and compound nouns. To form compound adjectives:
Grammar and usage Teaching Aims: 1Learn that modal verbs can be used to talk about ability, obligation, certainty or permission, to make requests, suggestions, offers and to give advice.
2、 Enable students to learn that some modal verbs can be used with the continuous form and the perfect form to talk about current affairs or past actions.
Teaching Important Points: 1、 Develop the students’ ability of using modal verbs. 2、 How to make students master the usage of modal verbs. Teaching Difficult Points: Develop the students’ ability of using modal verbs and how to make students master the usage of modal verbs. Teaching Methods:
Explanation and exercise Teaching Aids: 1. The multimedia 2. The blackboard
Teaching Procedures: Step1 Warming up Say some sentences to warm up students: Can you drive ? He can jump 2 meters. You must work hard ,or you have to live a hard life. Step2 Lead in Let students say sentences including modal verbs as many as possible.
Step3 Activities: (1)Introduce modal verbs with the following: Now, many of us can speak English quite well, but a few years ago, we couldn’
t. If we talk about the ability someone has now , we use “can”. If we talk about the ability someone had in the past, we usually use “could”.
Ask students: If we talk about the ability in the future, what modal verbs do we use ? ( will, shall, be able to (2) Ask students to make sentences using these words to talk about ability. Show the usage of the modal verbs on the screen.
(3) Talk about obligation of the modal verbs “should, ought to, have to, must ”, Show the usage of the modal verbs on the screen.
Step4 Write the following sentence on the blackboard : I might/may/could/should/ought to/will/must watch the TV programme tonight. Explain the usage of these modal verbs, showing more examples on the screen.
Step5 Explain the usage of permission of the modal verbs “Can, could, might” Show the examples on the screen
Step6. Ask students to read Part 1 on page 28 to find out how modal verbs are used to
talk about ability, obligation, certainty and permission, showing more examples to the students and explaining the usage to the students.
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