Task(1): Talking about sports and activities: Skills building 1 and 2优质课教学设计

A lesson plan for Unit 2 Task (1st period), Book 4, Advance with English

Teaching objectives: By the end of the class, the students will be able to ·learn to listen for specific information and complete a training schedule. ·make suggestions and design a new daily routine for athletes.

·read a letter on the history of football around the world and write a report on the history of it.

Teaching aids: PPT,blackboard, handouts

Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead-in: Show students some pictures about sports events, ask them whether they can recognize them. Play the theme song of 2014 Brazilian FIFA World Cup; students will get a general idea of the history of the World Cup.

Ask students what they know about the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Step 2 Listening strategy: Listening strategy: tell students to listen for specific information like but, however, or, I mean. Show them some examples and ask them to make up sentences.

Step 3: Listening for specifics Warming-up questions: Ask students to name some famous football players. Ask questions: what makes a good football player? Do the listening practice---complete a training schedule Listening Practice: complete a training schedule

New Training Schedule Name of athlete: George Sport: football Physical training 1.

Hours of training must be

increased/reduced 2.

Number of training hours per day

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 3.

Strength-training exercises such as

running/swimming/lifting weights 4.

Hours of sleep every night

7/ 8/ 9/ 10 Food 5.

Eat foods such as

rice/beef 6.

Hamburgers are allowed.

True/False 7.

Pizzas are not allowed.

True/False 8.

Eat______ three times a day.

Fish / fruit / meat / vegetables 9.

Number of times to eat fruit a day

3/ 4 / 5 / 6

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Allowed drinks:

water/ strong tea/ weak tea

Step 4: Making suggestions Design a new daily routine for Chinese athletes. First tell students the formal and less direct ways to make suggestions, and then ask students to think, pair and share.

Design a new daily routine. Directions: Turn to page 35, read the two leaflets from the Sports Association, and compare them with the athletes’ daily routine. Give advice to the athletes on how their daily routine should be changed.

Techniques: How to make suggestions?

1. Some formal ways of making suggestions: advise/recommend sb. to do sth. Advise/suggest/recommend doing sth. advise/suggest that sb + (should) + v. One’s advice/suggestions/recommendations to sb is that…

One’s advice/ suggestions/recommendations is that sb. + (should) + v.

give sb. some advice/suggestions/ recommendations on…

2. Sometimes we also use less direct ways to make suggestions:

Don’t you think it would be a good idea to do…? Why not do…? Why don’t you do…? Shall we do…? How / what about doing…? Let’s do…

If I were you, I would do…

You had better…

Step 5: Identifying/ selecting relevant information Read one letter about the history of football, then ask students to write a report about it.

Invite some students to present their reports orally.

Directions: the famous football star Messi writes you a letter about the history of football around the world. Read the letter below and underline information relevant to your topic.

Dear Class

How are you guys? I am sorry I haven’t written for a while, since I have been very busy training for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In your last letter you asked me to tell you something about football.

Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer".

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The exact origin of football is not known. What we do know is that a sport similar to football was played 3000 years ago in Japan. Chinese text from 50 BC mentions football-type games between teams from Japan and China. A text dating from 611 AD confirmed that football was played in Kyoto(京都市），the ancient capital of Japan. Ancient Greeks and Romans also played a game that resembled (类似）football---although the Greeks permitted carrying of the ball. Olympic games in Ancient Rome featured a 50-minute football game with twenty-seven men on a side.

How the sport spread from the East to Europe is not clear but England became the home of modern football. At first, the game had a bad reputation among English royalty（皇室）---possibly because of the noise the fans made ---by whose insistence（坚持）

the government passed laws against it. However, laws failed to show the popularity of football and by 1681 it received official approval in England.

In the modern society, football gains growing popularity around the world. Many countries have their own national teams, and many great football players have become household names. FIFA was created in 1904 to coordinate the national football associations in the world. The first World Cup was held in 1930 in Uruguay (乌拉圭). Ever since then, the world has witnessed the World Cup every four years. This year, it will be held in Brazil. I will take part in the match, and I hope you will watch me on TV.

I hope this information will be of use to you. Good luck with your report.

Yours Messi

Step 6: Writing practice Write a report on the history of football, and the outline below may help you.

Definition: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ History: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Today: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Step 7: Homework Read another article on the Students’

Book, page 103, and finish the related exercises.

Ask students to surf the Internet to get some information about their favorite football player, and write a report about it.

Blackboard Design: Some well-known sports events: the Olympic Games, Tour de France, Grand Slam, the World Cup.

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