Using LanguageⅠ教学设计及教案分析

Unit 1 Breaking records!

Reading and writing (Teaching plan) Text FOCUS ON ...

Lance Armstrong

Date of Birth: 8th September, 1971

Country: USA

Lance Armstrong's Guinness record for the fastest average speed at the Tour de France was set in 1999 with an average speed of 40.27 km/hr. In his teens he was a triathlete but at 16 he began to concentrate on cycling. He was an amateur cyclist before the 1992 Olympic Games but turned professional after he had competed in the Games. In the following few years, he won numerous titles, and by 1996 he had become the world's number one. However, in October 1996, he discovered he had cancer and

had to leave cycling. Successfully fighting his illness, Armstrong officially returned to racing in 1998. In 1999 he won the Tour de France and in 2003 he achieved his goal of winning five Tours de France.

Michellie Jones

Date of Birth: 9th June, 1969

Country: Australia

In 1988 Michellie Jones helped establish the multi-sport event, the triathlon, in Australia. After completing her teaching qualifications in 1990, she concentrated on the triathlon. In 1991, she finished third at the world championships. In 1992 and 1993, she was the International Triathlon Union World Champion. Since then, she has never finished lower than fourth in any of the world championships she has competed in. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000 she won the silver medal in the Women's Triathlon, the first time the event had been included in the Olympic Games. Recently, for the first time in 15 years, Jones was not selected as part of the national team and therefore did not compete in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Fu Mingxia

Date of Birth: 16th August, 1978

Country: China

Fu Mingxia first stood on top of the 10-metre diving platform at the age of nine. At 12 years old she won a Guinness Record when she became the youngest female to win the women's world title for platform diving at the World Championships in Australia in 1991. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, she took the gold medal in the women's 10-metre platform, becoming the youngest Olympic diving champion of all time. This was followed by great success at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games where she won gold for both the 10-metre platform and the three-metre springboard. This made her the first woman in Olympic diving history to win three gold medals. She retired from diving after Atlanta and went to study economics at university. While there she decided to make a comeback and went on to compete at the Sydney Olympic Games, where she won her fourth Olympic gold, again making Olympic history.

Martin Strel

Date of Birth: 1st October, 1954

Country: Slovenia

Strel was trained as a guitarist before he became a professional marathon swimmer in 1978. He has a passion for swimming the world's great rivers. In 2000, he was the first person ever to swim the entire length of the Danube River in Europe - a distance of 3,004 kilometres in 58 days. For this, he attained his first entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. Then in 2001 he broke the Guinness record for non-stop swimming - 504.5 kilometres in the Danube River in 84 hours and 10 minutes. Martin won his third entry in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2002 when he beat his own record for long distance swimming by swimming the length of the Mississippi River in North America in 68 days, a total of 3,797 kilometres. Then in 2003 he became the first man to have swum the whole 1,929 kilometres of the difficult Parana River in South America.In 2004, Strel again broke his own Guinness record by swimming the length of the dangerous Changjiang River (4,600 km), the third longest fiver in the world.

Teaching goals 1.

To make ss know about some famous Sportspeople. 2.

To help ss improve their reading and writing skills 3.

To inspire ss to learn from those famous people and improve themselves in daily life Teaching important points To help ss improve their reading and writing skills To help ss better themselves by learning from those famous people Teaching difficult points How to make ss improve their reading and writing skills Teaching aids The multimedia, pc and materials related Teaching procedures

Step 1 Reading

1. The reading part is the preparation for the writing part, so teacher ought to pay more attention to the Ss' acquisition of the passage structure.

T: You've done a great job in the listening practice! Now look at the reading passage on Page 7.Tell me whom it talks about?

Ss: Sportspeople.

T: What is it about?

Ss: The profile of these sportspeople. T: That's it! Now, read this passage carefully and then do the exercises on Page 9. After students complete these, teacher can explain some grammar points to the students. Refer to Grammar II in Appendices.

2. Read the profiles from a sports magazine and complete the summary of each sportsperson’s (Guinness) record(s).

Suggested answers:

WHO Lance Armstrong WHEN 1999 WHERE Tour de France WHAT Set the fastest average speed-40.27 km/hr WHO Michellie Jones WHEN 2000 WHERE The Sydney Olympic Games WHAT For the first time, the triathlon had been included in the Olympic Games. WHO Martin Strel WHEN 2000 WHERE Danube River in Europe WHAT The first person ever to swim the entire length of Danube River in Europe.

3. Read the profiles and answer the questions below: Who is the youngest athlete?

Who retired from their sport and then made a comeback?

Who has trained in another profession? Who do you think is the most

courageous of the four sportspeople? Give reasons. What qualities do you think these sportspeople need to be successful?

4. Which quote do you think belongs to which sportsperson? I am swimming for peace, friendship and clean water. I’d like to think that I was a role model, that people see my sport and say”Wow,I’d like to try that.”

I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride .

I call it a one-second art. It requires you to fully display the beauty of the sport in only a second.

5. Read the passage and decide the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

Lance Armstrong has become a professional cyclist since 1992. Fu Mingxia won a Guinness Record at 9. Fu Mingxia won three gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Martin Strel was trained as a swimmer since childhood. Step 2 Post-reading

Get the students to complete the exercise in Comprehending

Step3 Writing write a profile for a magazine about a person who has broken a record. Use the guide below and the profiles on pages 7and 8 as models. Name: Date of birth: Country: Achievements:

Step 4 Homework Finish the writing