Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优秀课堂实录

Unit 1 Breaking Records

Warming up &Reading教学设计

Teaching Aims

1. Ability goals

Enable the students talk about the GWR sports mentioned. Enable the students to talk about surpassing physical limits. 2. Learning ability goals

Help the students talk about the GWR sports and surpassing physical limits. Teaching important and difficult point

Talk about the relationship between one’s spiritual motivation and physical action.

Teaching methods

Skimming, intensive reading, discussing, analyzing.

Teaching procedures Step ⅠWarming up 1. Ask some students to share their findings about GWR.

2. Teacher shows some pictures shout GWR The Guinness Book of World Records:The book collects allkinds of records that are not made in any conventional sports and usually by amateur sports lovers.

Step Ⅱ Pre-reading Group work: Ss answer the questions about the pictures of the activities below. What is each person doing? Choose the name of each activity from the list. ●

hula hooping

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pogo stick jumping ●

doing jumping jacks

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somersaulting ●

standing on a Swiss ball

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doing lunges

Step Ⅲ While-reading 1.

Fast reading 1)

Get the students to read the passage and get the general idea of it. What is the passage about?

A man called Ashrita Furman has broken Guinness records in many activities. 2)

SS quickly glance through the text. Tick the topics about Ashrita that the author does not cover. □ physical skills needed for events

□ number of records broken

□ his family life

□ kinds of records broken

□ why he became a sportsman

□ countries he likes best □ place and date of birth

□ his occupation(职业) □ his education

□ his first Guinness record

2. Careful reading 1) Profile of Ashrita Furman 

Name: Ashrita Furman 

Where he lives (Para. ___ ):

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Number of records broken (Para. _____ ): 

His first Guinness record (Para. _____ ):

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Kinds of records broken (Para. _____ ): 2)

Main sports in which he has made Guinness records 3)

Some of the physical difficulties he has experienced. ◇When walking with a bottle of milk on his head, the fine _______________ are needed ◇When doing gymnastically correct lunges, lunges are _________ hard on your legs.

◇When standing on top of a Swiss ball, It takes a lot of __________ and a great sense of ______ to stay on the ball. You have to _______ to stay on top especially when your legs start ________. ◇When somersaulting, It is a _____ event as you have to overcome ________, _______________ and pain. You are ________ to rest for only 5 minutes in every hour of rolling. And you may _____. 3. Structure analyzing Ss work together to find out parts this text can be divided into, and what the general meanings are. Part 1: Para.1

Ashrita Furman is a sportsman who likes the challenge of breaking Guinness Record. Part 2: Para.2-7

Ashrita Furman achieved his dream of breaking a record in all seven continents. Part 3: Para.8-11

How Ashrita Furman came to be a sportsman. Part 4: Para.12-13

Ashrita Furman’s belief.

Step Ⅳ

Discussion

Here are some of Ashrita’s beliefs. Ask students to discuss whether they agree with them or not. Reasons? 1) There is no limit to people’s physical abilities.

2) The body is just an instrument of the spirit. 3) You can use your spirit to accomplish anything. 4) There is only one perfect road. It is ahead of you, always ahead of you.

Step Ⅴ

Homework 1.

Find proverbs or quotations which are closely connected with reading material

Ashrita’s story.

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Design a profile of your own