Reading(2)：The Olympic GamesPPT专用课堂实录内容

Unit 2 Sporting events Reading

Period 2 Teaching Aims: 1.

Check and enhance students’ reading abilities. 2.

Train Ss to gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to adopt different reading strategies. Teaching important points: 1.

Help Ss know some background knowledge about the history and the development of the Olympic Games about. 2.

Help them learn some language items. Teaching difficult points: 1.

how to read a speech

2.

how to grasp the new words. Teaching methods:[来源:学#科#网]

1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension. 1.

Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt. 2.

Discussion to make every student work in class.[来源:Zxxk.Com]

Teaching aids: 1.

the multi-media 2.

the blackboard. Teaching procedures: Step 1.lead in 1.

Talk about the Olympics: ask students to do a task-based reading.网]

2.

Encourage the students to read the text together to get the general idea of the text.

Revision: Fill in the blanks to finish the short passage.

every

separate

compete

join

allowed

significance

in honour of

was delighted to

take part in

are recognized as

Mr Johnson said he ______________ have been invited to the school to talk about the history and __________ of the Olympic Games. From Mr Johnson’s speech, we know that the Olympic games are held _____ four years. At the ancient games, only men

were ______ to take part while unmarried women could _________ their own competition at a _______ festival __________ the wife of Zeus. Today, athletes around the world can _______ in the games. Many of them ______________ great athletes. He said the Olympic Games had brought joy to people, he asked us to ____ him in wishing the Olympic movement a successful future.

(1)As a member of the International Olympic Committee, I am delighted to have been invited to your school to talk to you about the history and significance of the Olympic Games. delighted

adj.

= happy , pleased delight

n.

快乐，高兴；

v. 使高兴，使欣喜

be delighted to do = be pleased/happy

to do sth

很高兴做…

be delighted with/at

对…满意/开心

to one’s delight

令某人高兴的是…

with delight

高兴地

(2) At the ancient Olympics, by tradition the athletes were all men and they had to compete wearing no clothes. athlete

n.

运动员；

athletic

adj.

运动的，运动员的

by tradition

按照传统

tradition

n.

traditional

adj.

traditionally

adv. It is a tradition to do sth

做...是传统

(3) Single women were allowed to take part in their own competition, at a separate festival in honour of Hera, the wife of the Greek god Zeus. be allowed to do

separate

adj. 单独的，分开的；v.分开

honour

v./n.

honourable

adj.光荣的，值得尊敬的

in honour of

为了纪念...，

向...表示敬意

It is an honour to do sth

很荣幸做...

(4) Chinese athletes have also made important contributions to the Olympic Games. make contributions to 为...作出重要贡献

contribute to

(doing) sth

有助于...,导致...

(5) At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympicas, the people's republic of China returned to the Olympics after 32 year's absence. absence

n. 缺席，不在场

absent

adj.

不在的，缺席的

absent-minded

心不在焉

be absent from

不在...的

in one's absence

在某人不在的时候

(6) At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang excited people all over Asia when he became the first Asian to win the gold medal in the men's 110-metre hurdles. excite v.

使激动，使兴奋

excitement

n.

激动，兴奋

exciting

adj.

excited

adj.

(7) At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang excited people all over Asia when he became the first Asian to win the gold medal in the men's 110-metre hurdles. the first Asian to win the gold medal

the first/last +n.+ to do sth

第一/最后做…

(8)These are some of the Olympic athletes who have brought joy to people across the world with their attempts to push the boundaries of human achievement. attempt

n./v.

尝试，努力，试图

attempt to do sth

=try/manage to do

make an attempt to do sth=make an attempt at doing sth. attempted

adj. 未遂的

(9) They were held at Olympia in Greece every four years, for almost 12 centuries,

until AD394. every four years

每四年，没隔三年

every + 基数词+ 复数名词

every two days

every

every + 序数词/other+ 单数名词

every second/other day

every few weeks

每几周

They go to New York every three year. Staff are allowed to take a ten-minute break every second hours.

总结

every+基数词/ few+复数名词

every +序数词/other+单数名词

为了解决那个事件，我不得不每隔一日/每隔三日/每隔几日就飞去法国一趟。

To deal with the case, I had to fly to France

every other

day/every three

days/

every third day/

every few days.