Reading(1)：The Olympic Games教案和学案内容

Unit 2 Welcome & Reading

The Olympic Games Teaching Aims: 1.To train students’ speaking ability

2.To train students’ reading ability

Teaching important point To train students reading ability

Teaching difficult point To train students reading ability

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Welcome to the unit 1. Warming-up:

1) Do you like sports?

What sports can you play?

2) What sports do you know? Who is your favorite sportsperson? 2. Welcome to the unit: Discuss the following sports with a partner to see how much you know about them. (P21 welcome to the unit)

What sports do you know?

(Introduce different kinds of sports, like table tennis, Taiji (Kung fu ), badminton, boxing, volleyball, long jump, wrestling, discus, gymnastics,

Fencing, diving, shooting) Step 2 Reading 1. Lead-in

Who is your favorite sports star? Play a game: guess who the sports star is:

(1) The first Olympic champion of China

(2) Changsha, actress, gymnastics

(3) Zhengzhou, Olympic champion, table tennis, woman

(4) Shanghai, Asian’s pride, 110-meter hurdles

Do you know these sportsperson?

(5) ＊the most famous boxer of all time ＊light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony in the

Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996

(6) He was the highest scorer for the gold-medal-winning USA basketball team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. All of them are stars in Olympic Games. What do you know about Olympic Games?

( logo, motto, IOC) Today, we’ll study more about The Olympic Games

2. Fast-reading:

Read the speech quickly to get the answers to questions in Part A

(1) What is the speech about?

(2) What was Pierre de Coubertin’s hope when he brought the Olympic

Games back to life?

(3) What does the speaker wish for at the end of the speech? 3. Listen to the speech and try to divide the passage into 4 parts and get the main idea of each part.

Part 1: the topic of the speech Part 2: the history of the Olympics Part 3:some famous sports stars and their great contributions Part 4:the end/closure of the speech How many people were mentioned in Part3?

Six:______________________________________ 4. Carful reading Please read the text carefully to get more information about them and finish C2

5. Post reading What fine qualities do you think these athletes have in common?

Step 3. Interview:

student A, B, C: students from a high school

student D: An athlete •

Things that make him/her proud •

Training process •

…

Deep thinking:

Conclusion about what’s been learned today.

8. Homework:

Write a passage about your interview of an athlete.

For students: An interview in class: A/B/C: Glad to meet you, ... We admire/like you very much. Can we ask you some

questions? D: Sure.

A: ... D: ...

B: ... D: ... C: ... D: ... A/B/C: Nice meeting you. Your passion really inspires us. We look forward to meeting you again! Bye! D: Bye! ...

Writing after class:

I'm delighted to have interviewed _________ with two other classmates. ___________ is a great athlete who has made great achievements in the sports career. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

However, the achievements were made through years of hard work. ___________ _____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________.

The interview sets me thinking deeply and I have learned a lot from __________. _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________