Reading(1)：The Olympic Games教学目标设计

Unit 2

Sports events Reading

The Olympic Games

Teaching Aims: 1.

Enhance students’ reading abilities.

2.

Enable students to adopt the strategy reading a speech and catch the main idea of the text. Teaching Important Points: 1.

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

Help them learn some language points. Teaching Methods: 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. Teaching aids: 1.

the multi-media 2.

the blackboard. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead- in 1. Show pictures about Olympic Games to motivate the Ss’ enthusiasm. 2. Talk about the Olympics and encourage the students to share their information and express their opinions. As we all know, the Olympic Games are held every four years and it is a great honor for a country to host the Games.

How much do you know about the Olympics, for example, its history, ceremonies and sporting events?

1. How many Olympic games did you see? Where were they held? 2. Do you think they are exciting?

3. Who is your favorite athlete and who do you think is the greatest Olympian? Why?

Step 2 Fast reading Ask Ss to scan the article and answer the three questions in Part A. 1. What is the speech about?

The history and significance of the Olympic Games. 2. What was Pierre de Coubertin’s hope when he brought the Olympic Games back to life? He hoped that the Olympic Games would make it possible for people of all countries to live side by side in peace. 3. What does speaker wish for at the end of the speech? He wishes the Olympic Movement a successful future to match its past glory. Step 3 Careful reading 1. Read the passage again and check the errors in each sentence. 1) According to the speech, the speaker is an athlete.

an LOC member

2). The first ancient Olympic Games were held in AD776.

776BC

3). Everyone was allowed to take part in the ancient Olympics. Only men were

4). The contemporary Olympic Games were first held in Rome in 1896.

Athens

5). At the 2008 Beijing Olympic, the Chinese women’s badminton team won the gold medal for the first time in history.

gymnastics

6). Zhang Ning was in her late thirties when she competed in the 2008 Olympic Games.

early

2. Try to fill in the form according to the passage. Answers: Name Nationality Which Olympic Muhammad Ali American 1960 Olympic Other achievements information medal, won his first Rome Gold boxing Olympics World

Boxing Championship ;lit

the Olympic flame at 1966 Atlanta Olympics

Michael Jordan American 1984 Angles Los Two medals, gold

Olympics;1992 basketball Barcelona Olympics Xu Haifeng Chinese 1984 Angeles Olympics Deng Yaping Chinese 1992 Barcelona Olympics; 1996 Atlanta Olympics

Liu Xiang Chinese 2004 Athens Gold men’s 110-metre hurdles Zhang Ning Chinese 2008 Beijing gold medals, won the gold Olympics badminton medal at the age of 33 True (T) or false (F).

1) Mr Johnson introduced the reason why the ancient Olympics were not held in detail. (

F

) 2) The long jump, wrestling and running were included in the ancient Olympics. (

T

) medal, The first Asian to win this race Four Los Gold medal Won the first Olympic gold medal for China

gold

medals, table tennis Olympics

3) Single women in ancient times were allowed to take part in the competition held at a festival. (

T

) 4) Muhammad Ali won the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in 1960. (

F

) 5) The Chinese women’s gymnastics team didn’t win the gold medal until 2008. (

T

) 3. Finish exercise D and E. 1.

Do D in class. 2.

Do E in class Answers: D

1 a

2 c

3 e

4 b

5 f

6

d E (1) significance

(2) movement

(3) medal

(4) joy

(5) competed

(6) made contributions

(7) honour

(8) excited

Step 4 Reading strategy Step 5 Discussion 1. Do you think Chinese athletes such as DengYaping and LiuXiang are as great as Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan? Why? 2. In our life, we often hear Sports Spirit. What kind of Sports Spirit can you learn from them? And how can you use the sports spirit in your studies? Step 6 Homework 1. Try to remember the useful words, phrases and sentence patterns and know how to use them freely. 2. Finish exercises in Workbook.