Reading(1)：The Olympic Games教学评价实录

Period 2 ReadingⅠ

Teaching Aims: 1. Enhance the students’ reading abilities.

2. Enable the students to adopt the strategy reading a speech and catch the main idea of the text. Teaching Important Points: Help the students know some background knowledge about the history and the development of the Olympic Games. Teaching Difficult Points:

How to improve the students’ reading abilities. Teaching Methods: Listening and group work. Teaching Aid:

A tape recorder and a computer

Teaching Procedures: Step1 Greetings

Greet the whole class as usual. Step 2 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. Step 3 Reading strategy

1. Get the Ss to read the reading strategy. 2. Let the Ss tell how a speech keeps the audience interested all the time. Step 4 Listening Ask the students to open their books to Page 22, listen to a speech by Mr. Johnson, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who is visiting a high school in Beijing and answer the questions．

1. What is the speech about? 2. Where were the ancient Olympic Games held? 3. Who restarted the modern Olympic Games? Suggested answers: 1. The history and significance of the Olympic Games. 2. At Olympia in Greece. 3. Pierre de Coubertin. Step 5 Careful Reading 1. Ask the students to read the passage carefully and choose the best answers of the following questions.

1) How often are the Summer Olympic Games held?

A. Every 4 years.

B. Every 2 years.

C. Every 6 years.

D. Every 8 years.

2) When and where did the Old Olympic Games begin?

A. In Greece in AD394.

B. In Greece around 776BC.

C. In Los Angeles in 1984.

D. In Greece in 1896. 3) Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?

A. When the old Olympic Games stopped.

B. Why the old Olympic Games stopped. C. Whether women were allowed to take part in the old Olympic Games. D. Where the 2004 Olympic Games were held.

4) Which of the following is not true according to the text?

A. Women were unfairly treated around 776BC. B. The men’s 110-meter hurdles isn’t included in the Olympic Games. C. Every athlete tried to win a medal in the Olympic Games. D. Deng Yaping may be the greatest female table tennis player in the world.

5) Which could be another title for the text?

A. The Summer Olympic Games

B. The Winter Olympic Games C. The World’s Greatest Sports Games

D. A Great Victory for China

Suggested answers: ABBBC 2. Ask the students to read the passage again and finish C1 and C2.

Suggested answers:

C1:1) According to the speech, the speaker is an athlete.

an LOC member

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

776BC 3) In the past, only athletes that spoke Italian were allowed to compete. Greek 4) The aim of the modern Olympic Games is to make countries and people compete side by side.

live peacefully 5) The first modern Olympic Games were held in Rome in 1896.

Athens 6) Deng Yaping won four Olympic gold medals for tennis.

table tennis

C2: Name Nationality Which Olympic Olympic Other information achievements Muhammad American Ali 1960 Rome Gold medal, Original name Cassius Clay; Olympics boxing won his first World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in 1964; lit the Olympic flame at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics 1984 Los Two gold The highest scorer for the USA Angeles medals, basketball team at the 1984 Olympics; basketball Olympics 1992 Barcelona Olympics 1996 Athens Olympics;2000 Sydney Olympics Two gold First became famous in 1992; medals, broke world record for the 10 distance km run running Won the first Olympic gold medal for China

Michael Jordan American Haile Ethiopian Gebrselassie Xu Haifeng Chinese 1984 Los Gold medal Angeles Olympics Deng Yaping Chinese 1992 Barcelona Four gold Became an IOC member in Olympics; medals, table 2000

1996 Atlanta tennis Olympics Liu Xiang Chinese 2004 Athens Gold medal, The first Asian to win this race Olympics men’s 110-metre hurdles Step 6 Discussion Ask the students to discuss the following questions. 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 7 Summary and Homework In this period, we have known some background knowledge about the history and the development of the Olympic Games. Of course, we have known some famous athletes and the Olympic achievements they made. After class, please read the passage again and again and finish Ex. D and E on Page 24-25.

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