Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、ComprehendingPPT及课堂实录内容

Unit1 Breaking Records —Reading Teaching aims: 1. To comprehend the text and know about Ashrita’s experience and challenge of breaking Guinness records by reading and retelling. 2. To develop the students’ reading skills 2. To be inspired by Ashrita’s spirits by voicing out your own feelings. Leading-in Lead in with an discussion about my favourite sports Pre-reading 1.Match the pictures with the sports 2. Introduce the main hero of the reading passage. There is a man called Ashrita Furman who has broken Guinness records in all these activities. Want to know more about this man? Let’s read the passage. Aims of this class are 1…, 2…. While-reading TaskⅠ: Fast reading--Skim and scan the passage quickly and answer the following questions.

·Firstly read Para 1 and answer TaskⅠ1. 2. 1.

Who is Ashrita Furman?

Ashrita Furman is a sportsman who likes the challenge of breaking Guinness records.

2. When and why he entered the Guinness book of world records? Over the last 25 years, he has broken approximately 93 Guinness records. (Great. Now we know “who, what, when, why”—the basic information of the text. ) · Now you skim the whole passage quickly, and get the main idea and the structure of the text.

3. What is the main idea of the text?

Ashrita’s success and belief.

(Usually we can get the main idea of the passage in the first paragraph. That’s a skill for reading a passage. ) 4. Divide the text into four parts and summarize the main idea of each part.

(To find out which paragraphs belong to the same part, you can summarize the main idea of each paragraph and find out those with the same theme. Normally they belong to the same part.)

TaskⅡ

Careful reading - Read the text carefully and have a further understanding. ·1. Read Part 2 carefully and fill in the blanks.

Name Main sports

in which he has

made Guinness

records Personal profile Ashrita Furman 1. Hula hooping

2 ________________________ under water 3. performing _____________________ in a hot air balloon

4. Keeping a full bottle of milk on his head while he was walking 5. Standing ___________________________________________.

6. _______________along a road for 12 miles. 7. Covering a mile in the fastest time while doing gymnastically correct_____ The qualities

required in these

sports 1. Strength 2. Fitness 3.

_____________

·

Read Part 2 (Para 2-7) and answer the following questions.

2.

Why was it amazing that Ashrita came third in the bicycle marathon in 1978? Because he had done no training before the marathon. 3.

Why did Ashrita believe he could accomplish anything after the bicycle marathon? Because after the Marathon, he believed his body was just an instrument of

the spirit, and there is no physical limitation. 4. Which of the following is not Ashrita’s beliefs? A. There’s no limit to people’s physical abilities. B. I’d like to think that I was a role model, and that people see my sport and say “Wow, I’d like to try that”. C. The body is just an instrument of the spirit. D. You can use your spirit to accomplish anything.

B. 5. Analyze the useful sentences (1)

Covering a mile in the fastest time while doing gymnastically correct lunges is yet another event in which Ashrita is outstanding.

(2) How Ashrita came to be a sportsman is an interesting story.

Who can translate them? What is the subject? The predicate? The predicative? Can you create some sentences with the same structure?

…Good. To express ourselves, we should also apply some advanced sentences. Task Ⅲ

Summary Ashrita Furman is a sportsman______ attempts

_______(break) records in very ____________ (imagine)

events and in very interesting places, such as hula hooping in Australia. And by now, he has broken _____________(approximate) 93 Guinness records. Though these activities may cause __________(laugh) rather than respect, they require great strength and ________(fit) as well as _____________ (determine).

However, Ashrita Furman used to be an unfit child. But later, ________ (urge) by his _____________ (spirit) leader, Sri Chimmoy, who believes that there is no limit to people’s physical _____________ (able), he stepped into the sports world and keeps trying to break records. Post-reading Lessons we get from Ashrita and ourselves: Actually it doesn’t matter whether we could break the Guinness records. But what do matter are the qualities we can get by participating in the challenges: physical quality, psychological quality, sense of Innovation, determination and perseverance of challenging ourselves. And I believe you’ve been inspired by the spirits.

Homework Write down an essay about your favorite sport or activity.

1. the reasons you like it 2. the skills it needs 3. the challenges or spirits you get from it.