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Unit 1 Breaking records

Learning about language

Wu Die

Teaching goals

1. Target language

Key words and expressions

hurdling, hula hooping, Guinness, approximately, fascinate, spiritual, devote, conventional, determine, adjustment, accomplish, motivation. Guinness book of world records, in reality. 2. Ability goals

Enable the students to finish the tasks and write a short passage by using these target words. 3. Learning goals

Help the Ss understand that there is no limit to people’s physical abilities. Teaching important points

The usage of the target words. Teaching difficult points

The translation and writing

Teaching methods

Task-based & Explaining

Teaching aids

A recorder, a projector and some slides. Teaching procedures and ways

Step 1 Lead-in

T: Show the phrase: exciting moment.

What flash in your mind? S: The summer holiday is approaching. /Someone breaks the records. / Get the first place in a competition…

T: There are two pictures in my mind.

Show the pictures: Sun Yang and Liu Xiang who are wearing golden medals. They are the winners in the competition. T: How do you understand the winner?

S: the best one. / The first place…

T: Another man, called Ashrita, who is a winner in my heart. Step 2 Presentation

Present the target words by giving the brief introduction of Ashrita.

A :Sports hula hooping

pogo stick jumping under water

deep knee bends in a hot

air balloon

Untraditional sports / Unconventional sports

un+convention+al

B: His achievement Over the last 25years, he has broken about

93 Guinness records, and these records are not made in any traditional sport, like swimming or hurdling.

about—approximately

traditional—

conventional While these activities might seem childish and cause laughter rather than respect, in reality they require an enormous amount of

______

(strong) and ______

(fit)

as well as

____(determine). C: His practice

Keep a full bottle of milk on your head while you are walking.

Stand on top of a 75cm Swiss ball.

The fine neck adjustment. (adjust)/ a lot of concentration/ a great sense of balance. D: Stimulation As a child he was very unfit and was not at all interested in sports. However, he _______ (fascinate) by the Guinness Book of World Records. “No limit to people’s physical abilities”.

“It is just as important for people to develop their bodies as it is to develop their minds, hearts and _______(spirit) selves.”

E: Motivation When he won the third place in a 24-hour bicycle marathon, he came to the understanding that his body was just an instrument of the spirit and that he seemed to be able to use his spirit to achieve anything.

(accomplish)

The___ (motivate) to keep trying to break records comes through his __(devote)to his teacher. Step 3 Practice

Let Ss choose the different pictures with different tasks to finish.

Task 1: Match the explanation with the words. 1.

Following what is traditional or the way sth. has been done for a long time. 2.

Used to show that sth is almost, but not completely, accurate, or correct.

3.

State of being physically healthy and strong 4.

The ability to direct all your effort and attention on one thing, without thinking of other things.

5.

To attract or interest sb. every much. Task 2 Fill in the blanks. 1.He is________to his wife and gives her anything she asks for. 2.Can you tell me the ____________number of athletes in your club? 3.It was a huge________________for her to reach the top of the mountain

4.Some people have the ability to _________others to try to achieve their goals 5. She has _______

to the fact that she will never win the 400meter-swimming

event

Task 3: Translation. 1.

决定成功的是努力而非智力.（2008Hubei）

( determine)

2.

只要有勇气和决心，我们终会得到我们想要的阳光。(2010 Beijing）

3.

惊奇于他们的技术是如此娴熟，我决心要跟他们一样优秀

（2013 Zhejiang ）

Amazed at how skilful they were, I ________________________.

4.

他过了一段时间才适应山洞里的黑暗

5.

我努力适应这里的新环境

6.

每次跑步后，我都感到更健康，更快乐，更有动力继续前行。（2011 Hunan）

7.

一些人是受到渴望成功的驱使，另一些人则是因为害怕失败。

（2016 Jiangsu）

Step 4 Conclusion

What made him succeed? good physical abilities/fitness /strength; confidence/has a strong belief;

hard training/perseverance; concentration; determination; motivation

devotion

...

The road is always ahead of you

Step 5 Productions/ Assignment

Task4 Writing

假如你是李华，Ashrita应邀来你校参观，讲学，现由你代表你校学生主持座谈会，对客人表示欢迎，并简要介绍其经历。