Reading(1)：The Olympic Games教案教学设计导入整理

牛津版必修4Unit2 Reading精品教案

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Teaching Aims: 1. Enhance students’ reading abilities.

2. Enable Ss to adopt the strategy reading a speech and catch the main idea of the text.

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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.

2. Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt.

3. 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 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. ①. How many Olympic games did you see? Where were they held? ②. Who is your favorite athlete and who do you think is the greatest Olympian? Why? 3. What do you know about the Olympic Games?

（The Olympic flag，Mascot，Motto，Emblem，Torch，Medals，Events，IOC）

Step 2. Fast reading Ask Ss to scan the article and answer the three questions in Part A. 1. What is the speech about?

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2. Where were the ancient Olympic Games held?

3. Who restarted the modern Olympic Games?

Step 3 Careful reading

1. Read the passage again and check the errors in each sentence. 1) According to the speech, the speaker is an athlete.

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

3). In the past, only athletes that spoke Italian were allowed to compete.

4). The aim of the modern Olympic Games is to make countries and people compete side by side.

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

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

2. Try to fill in the form according to the passage. Name Muhammad Ali Michael Jordan Haile Gebrselassie Xu Haifeng Deng Yaping Liu Xiang Nationality Which Olympic 1960 Rome Olympics

Olympic achievements

Other information

Ethiopian

3. What are the differences / similarities between the ancient and the modern Olympic Games?

4. Finish exercise D and E. Step 4. Discussion

1. Do you think Chinese athletes such as DengYaping and LiuXiang are as great as Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan? Why?

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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 5. 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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