Using LanguageⅡ名师教学视频（文字实录）

选修9 Unit 1 Using Language Reading & Writing

Period 4: Focus on

Learning aims:

1. To get familiar with several famous athletes. 2. To use reading strategies such as skimming and scanning to understand the text. 3. To be able to introduce a famous athlete based on what will be learned.

4. To have a deeper understanding of spirits of sportsmanship. Important points:

To analyze the passage structure and know how to introduce a person. Difficult points: To master the basic elements of introducing people.

【学习过程】

Step 1 Pre-reading To show a short video about the Olympics Games. Write down the words you see. determination

hard work

attitude

sorrow

passion

dedication

precision

a champion aggression

zeal

power

dynamism

confidence

victories

a legend Who are they? What do you know about them? Step 2 While reading

1. Skimming Read the text quickly and fill in the blanks. The text mainly introduces________________________________________.

Para 1:______________ Para 2:______________ Para 3:______________

2. Scanning Read the passage quickly and answer the questions. 1.

Who is the youngest athlete? 2.

Who retired from their sport and then made a comeback? (Difficult sentence: While there she decided to make a comeback and went on to compete at the Sydney Olympic games, where she won her fourth Olympic gold, again making Olympic history.) 3．Careful reading

Read the profiles from a sports magazine and complete the summary of each sportsperson’s (Guinness) record(s).

1).

Who:

Lance Armstrong

When:

1999, 2003

Where:

_____________________________________________________

What:

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________ 2).

Who:

Michellie Jones

When:

1992, 1993

Where:

_____________________________________________________

What:

_____________________________________________________ 3).

Who:

Fu Mingxia

When:

1991, 1992, 1996, 2000

Where:

_____________________________________________________ What:

_____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________ Step 3

Post-reading: Brainstorming What qualities do you think these athletes have?

Courage, determination, ambition, passion, focus, concentration,

belief in himself/herself, perseverance Step 4 Writing Quality

1. Guessing game I have a favorite athlete. Can you guess who he is? 1. He is a Chinese Olympic and world-record-holding distance swimmer. 2. He was born on 1st December 1991 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

3. At the 2010 Asian Games, he won the men's 1500m freestyle in an Asian Record. 4. He won the 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Now it is your turn to show your favorite athletes. You did a good job.

Sun Yang

Date of birth:

1st December 1991

Country: China

He is a Chinese Olympic and world-record-holding distance swimmer. He swam for China at the 2008 Olympics. At the 2010 Asian Games, he won the men's 1500m freestyle in an Asian Record. At the 2011 World Championships, Sun broke the world record in the 1500 metre freestyle. He won the 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Chinese man ever to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming. At the 2012 Olympics, he was one of two male swimmers to win two individual titles. 2.Practice: Now you can write a profile for your favorite athletes as I show on the screen.

Step 5

Summary

What have you learned in this class? Words: Difficult sentence: Some famous athletes and their qualities: Step 6

Homework 1. To polish your writing and share it with your classmates. 2. Read the passage again and again.

选修9 Unit1 Using Language Reading & Writing FOCUS ON ..

Lance Armstrong Date of Birth: 8th September, 1971

Country: USA Lance Armstrong's Guinness record for the fastest average speed at the Tour de France was set in 1999 with an average speed of 40.27 km/hr. In his teens he was a triathlete(三项全能运动员) but at 16 he began to concentrate on cycling. He was an amateur（业余的）cyclist before the 1992 Olympic Games but turned professional after he had competed in the Games. In the following few years, he won numerous titles, and by 1996 he had become the world's number one. However, in October 1996, he discovered he had cancer and had to leave cycling. Successfully fighting his illness, Armstrong officially returned to racing in 1998. In 1999 he won the Tour de France and in 2003 he achieved his goal of winning five Tours de France. Michellie Jones

Date of Birth: 9th June, 1969 Country: Australia In 1988 Michellie Jones helped establish the multi-sport event, the triathlon(铁人三项赛) in Australia. After completing her teaching qualifications in 1990, she concentrated on the triathlon. In 1991, she finished third at the world championships. In 1992 and 1993, she was the International Triathlon Union World Champion. Since then, she has never finished lower than fourth in any of the world championships she has competed in. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000 she won the silver medal in the Women's Triathlon, the first time the event had been included in the Olympic Games. Recently, for the first time in 15 years, Jones was not selected as part of the national team and therefore did not compete in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Fu Mingxia Date of Birth: 16th August, 1978

Country: China Fu Mingxia first stood on top of the 10-metre diving platform(跳台) at the age of nine. At 12 years old she won a Guinness Record when she became the youngest female to win the women's world title for platform diving at the World Championships in Australia in 1991. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, she took the gold medal in the women's 10-metre platform, becoming the youngest Olympic diving champion of all time. This was followed by great success at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games where she won gold for both the 10-metre platform and the three-metre springboard(跳板). This made her the first woman in Olympic diving history to win three gold medals. She retired from diving after Atlanta and went to study economics at university. While there she decided to make a comeback and went on to compete at the Sydney Olympic Games, where she won her fourth Olympic gold, again making Olympic history.