Reading(1)：The Olympic Games教学设计(第二课时)

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.

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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 a short video and some 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 often are the Olympic Games held?

2.Where did the ancient Olympics start? 3. What are the three words that show the spirit of the Olympic Games?

4.What's the slogan of the Olympic Games of 2008? 5.What was rewarded to the winners in ancient/modern Olympic Games?

6.What is the host city of 2016 Olympics

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 Listening 1. Listen to the passage 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

Step4.Careful reading

1match the parts with the related themes

Part 1:

some famous sports stars and

their great contributions

Part 2:

the topic of the speech

Part 3:

the closure of the speech

Part 4:

the history & significance

2. Try to fill in the form according to the passage. 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 medal, The first Asian to Four Los Gold medal Won the first Olympic gold medal for China

gold

medals, table tennis

Olympics men’s 110-metre hurdles win this race Zhang Ning Chinese 2008 Beijing gold medals, won the gold Olympics badminton medal at the age of 33 Step 5 Discussion 1.What fine qualities do you think these athletes have in common? 2.What can we learn from them in our study or our lives

Step 6 Writing 针对一个城市举办奥运会所带来的影响，我班组织了一场讨论。请你根据下表所提供的信息，用英语介绍讨论情况，并说明自己的观点和建议

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处

坏

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1.给国家带来荣誉，让世界更了解中国

1.花费很多钱，给国家带来经济负担

2.是一个很好的发展经济与旅游业的机2.对环境有不良影响，包括空气污染，会，给人们提供更多的就业机会

水资源的压力等

3.推动国家的爱国情感和自豪感，以及3资源浪费，新的设施在奥运会后可能人民的道德行为

爱国的patriotic

设施facilities Recently we had a heated discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of hosting the Olympic Games.

Step 7

Homework 1. Try to remember the useful words, phrases and sentence patterns and know how to use them freely. 2. Finish exercises in Workbook.

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