Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案和学案内容

M9 Unit1 Breaking the record The Way is always ahead of us

First period: warming up and reading

Leading-in

To show Ss pictures about some interesting Guinness records to let them know something besides those “normal” records

Pre-reading

Task one

to show students some pictures which occur in the text,

First, lets them to know the name of the activity and the way to do it,

Second, let the students experience one or more of this, such as somersaulting doing jumping jacks

Third, thinking and discussing

①

Would you consider each activity to be serious sports?

②

Which activity would you like to try?

Would you need to be fit to do any of them?

③

Do you think you could do any of them for any length of time?

（Indication：Different activity requires different physical fitness）

While reading

Task two Listen to the tape, after listening tick the topics that the author does not cover

①physical skills needed for events ②

number of records broken ③

his family life ④

kind of records broken ⑤

why he became a sportsman

⑥

countries he likes best⑦

place and date of birth ⑧

his occupation ⑨

his education ⑩

his first Guinness record

Task three Skim the text and answer the questions

①Who is Ashrita Furman? ②When and why he entered the Guinness book of world records? ③When did Ashrita become a student Chinmoy?

Task four Careful reading first look through the questions

①Where do you think Ashrita lives? ②

Has he broken records in all seven continents?

③

What happens in an event that prevent Ashrita from giving up? ④

How can we divide the text?

1—2 introduction of Ashrita and his achievement 3—7 requirements of the activities

(while…, in reality they require…)

8—12 how he becomes a records breaker step by step

(yet this talented sportsman is not a natural athlete. How Ashrita came to be a sportsman is an…)

Post reading

Task five

Discussion on Ashrita’s motivation ①Why did Ashrita challenge the Guinness

world records instead of taking part in the Olympic games? ②Why does he keep on trying to challenge different Guinness records? ③Why didn’t

he take part in a conventional sports instead of un conventional and funny one? ④Why did Ashrita took part in active sports after learned quiet mediation?