Reading(1)：The Olympic Games优质课教案内容

Module4 Unit2 The Olympic Games—Reading 郎溪中学

戴启兵

Teaching Aims: Knowledge Aim: To let students have the general idea about the Olympic Games’ history and relative information；

Ability Aims:

1. To teach the reading strategy---how to read a speech. 2. To develop students’ reading skills: finding out topics; finding out detailed information;

Moral Aims: 1. To take an active part in sports to push your limit 2. To understand the truth of the Olympic spirits Teaching Points: 1. To learn information about the history and significance of the Olympic Games 2. Improve the students’ reading abilities；

Teaching Methods: 1. Small quiz to arouse the students’ interest in this topic. 2. Prediction to make every student work in class; 3. Listening and comparing to get the differences and similarities between the ancient and the modern Olympic Games.

4. Question-designing to get the detailed information about the well-known athletes；

5. Task-based reading to consolidate the speech; 6. Making a mini-speech to carry out the reading strategy.

Teaching Aids: Multi-media, blackboard

Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warming- up Watch a piece of TV news about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games

Step 2 Small quiz

Have a small quiz about some relevant information about the Olympic Games, such as the father of the Olympic Games, the slogan of the 2008 Olympic Games, the Olympic motto, sports events and the meaning of IOC…

Step 3. Reading for the speech Task 1: Reading strategy Introduce the reading strategy to the students on how to give and read a speech.

Task 2: Prediction

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1 What is the speech about? 2. How did the Olympic Games develop? Task 3: Listen and compare

(para 2-4)

the d______and s_______ between the ancient and the modern Olympic Games

(para 2-4) Similarities

Differences

The ancient Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games

Task 4 Detailed reading (para 5-8) Well-known athletes

Muhammad Ali

Michael Jordan Xu Haifeng Six Deng Yaping

Liu Xiang

Zhang Ning

Competition: Question-designing

Rules to follow: Firstly, read Para.5-8 fast by yourself. Secondly, discuss in groups of four to write down some questions based on this paragraph. Thirdly, Group A and Group B ask each other questions, like “Who….”

Step 4 Conclusion (Para. 9-10): Conclude: The author’s attitude towards the Olympic movement is __.

A

positive B cautious C uncaring D negative

Step 5 Summary Summarize the structure of the passage, offering a multiple choice for the students to choose. Step 6 Task–based reading Work in pairs complete the following chart according to the speech. Please fill in each blank with only one word.

Topic

The history and (1)______________of the Olympics

History of the The ancient games began in 776 BC in Greece while games the modern ones in 1896 in (2) _______. (3) ________ Only men were allowed to compete while today athletes across the world

between the can take part (4)_________ nation they come from.

ancient and The ancient games were held at the (5) ______ place, but countries and

modern games people can live in(6) _________ together in the modern ones.

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Some well- Muhammad Ali won the gold medal in 1960 and

known (7)

his first World Heavyweight Championship in 1964 ________ and Michael Jordan won the gold at the 1984 and 1992 Olympics.

their Chinese athletes have also made

important

achievements (8) ___________

to the Olympic Games. (9) __________ The Olympics will have a successful future to (10) _________his glorious past. Step 7 Task: Mini-speech Encourage the class to make a mini-speech from either of the given topics, using the reading strategy.

A Who is your favorite Olympic athlete ? What can you learn from him/her? B Do you agree “swifter , high, stronger” is a good motto not only for sports, but also for life? Why ? Step 8 Conclusion: Olympic Spirits

Draw a conclusion: The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, as the most important thing in life is not the success but the struggle. People all over the world should unite and struggle for a peaceful future Step 9 Assignment Required: Read the speech after class again.

Optional: Take an active part in sports to push your limit.

板书设计

Unit 2 Reading

The Olympic Games

opening ceremony speech

Group A

Group B make contributions to

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