Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计实例

Unit 1 Breaking records Period 1: A plan for reading Aims To help students develop their reading ability

To help students learn about breaking records Procedures ■Warming up by learning about “records”

●be a matter of record

●be on record

●go on record

●for the record ●go on record

●off the record

●off-the-record ●on the record

●off the record

●put/set the record straight

●a track record

■Warming up by Guinness World Records

Hello, class. Have you ever heard of Guinness World Records? Here are some of the latest world records listed in Guinness World Records. I. Pre-reading What is hula hoping? The hula hoop is a toy hoop that promotes physical activity. Today it is often made of plastic and twirled around the waist or limbs. What is jumping jack? 1. A toy figure with jointed limbs that can be made to dance by pulling an attached string. 2. Sports A physical exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands touching overhead and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides. What is somersault? A somersault (sometimes somerset) is an acrobatic feat in which a person tucks in mid-air and moves the feet over the head. The somersault can be performed either forwards or backwards and is synonymous with a flip (or, if performed backwards, backflip).

The word originates from the obsolete French word sombresault. II.Reading

On page 2 there is an article entitled "THE ROAD IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU" You are going to read it to the recording.

Now read the text again to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.

Then finish the following multiple choice Comprehension questions 1. The primary purpose of the passage is to

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A. describe the day to day life of Ashrita Furman B. raise concern about the health of sportsman C. tell about Ashrita Furman’s effort to break records

D. demand an alternative method of breaking records 2. The passage as a whole suggest that the author

A. admires Ashrita Furman B. dislikes Ashrita Furman C. envies Ashrita Furman D. laughs at Ashrita Furman 3. The saying that “There is only one perfect road．It is ahead of you，always ahead of you.” Is presented by the passage as the opinion of A. the author B. Sri Chinmoy’s

C. Ashrita Furman D. American people 4. In what way is the fourth paragraph related to the third? A. It provides an example to support the claims made in the third paragraph. B. It focuses on the broad claim of the third paragraph. C. It uses the information in the previous three paragraphs D. It refutes the statements made in the previous three paragraphs (key: CACA)

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Copying expressions from "THE ROAD IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU"

IV. Transforming information You are to read the text once more to fill in the table with necessary information. "THE ROAD IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU" Who is Ashrita? Ashrita Furman is a sportsman who likes the challenge of breaking Guinness records．

What has he done Over the last 25 years，he has broken approximately 93 Guinness records．

over the last 25years? Recently what Recently．Ashrita achieved his dream of breaking a record in all seven did he achieved? continents，including hula hooping in Australia，pogo stick jumping under water in South America，and performing deep knee bends in a hot air balloon in North America．

What is his gift? Yet this talented sportsman is not a natural athlete．

How did he come How Ashrita came to be a sportsman is an interesting story．

to be a sportsman? What did he get When Ashrita came third in a 24-hour bicycle marathon in New York’s to know? Central Park in 1978，he knew that he would one day get into the Guinness Book of World Records.

What did he do in With this new confidence, Ashrita broke his first Guinness record with 27,000

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1979? jumping jacks in 1979. Whom does he Ashrita always acknowledges his teacher in his record-breaking attempts．

always acknowledge? V. homework

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