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Unit 2

Sports events Welcome to the unit Teaching Aims: 1. Arrange a discussion for Ss to find out why sports are popular around the world. 2. Encourage Ss to express their own opinions in the discussion.

Try to develop their speaking ability Teaching Important Point: Develop students’ speaking ability.

Teaching Methods: Discussion and free talk to involve each student in class activities. Teaching Aids: 1. The multimedia 2. The blackboard Teaching Procedures; Step 1 Lead-in by asking the following questions: 1. Do you like sports? Why? 2. What are your favorite sports? 3.

What sports do you know? (Show pictures to motivate the students) Step 2 Presentation

Sport plays a very important role in our lives. We see or do sports almost everyday. Summarize familiar games and understand unfamiliar ones. Ball games: Volleyball, basketball, football, baseball, badminton, table tennis, golf, rugby,

ice hockey, etc. Track and field: long jump, high jump, pole jump, discus, shot-put, race, relay race, etc. Water games: swimming, diving and water polo

Gymnastics: Men’s events---rings, horizontal bar, double bars, parallel bars, vaulting horse, pummeled horse, floor exercise, etc. Women’s events---balance beam, high and low bar, uneven bars, vaulting horse, floor exercise, etc. It is said that gymnastics and diving are two of the most beautiful sports in the world, because they both display elements of strength and beauty. Do you agree? Can you name some famous Chinese gymnasts or divers? Wrestling is an ancient sport often appeared as the main event in the earliest Olympic Games. Wrestling exists in many different styles but only two styles feature in the Olympics, namely freestyle and Greco-Roman. Greco-Roman wrestling allows the use of only the participants’upper bodies; however, freestyle allows the use of legs.

Boxing became an Olympic sport in 688BC and is still popular today. The boxer uses his or her fists to punch The opponent’s head and body with the aim to knock the opponent out. Kung fu is a traditional sport in China.

Are you interested in this sport?

Do you enjoy watching kung fu films?

Step 3 Practice : Ask Ss to discuss the following questions . What sports do you usually play?

How much time do you usually spend doing sports every week? No pains, no gains. No matter what kind of sports you take part in, what do you have to sacrifice (牺牲) in order to be successful in that sport? Step 4 Homework 1. Surf the Internet to find more information about sports. 2. Write a composition about why people all over the world are crazy about sports.