Using LanguageⅠ教案（名师）

Reading and Writing Teaching Goals: 1.

to improve students’ ability to find out key information in a passage;

2.

to develop students’ ability to explain reasons for things;

3.

to make students familiar with the style and format of short biography; 4.

to develop students’ ability to write short biogruphy.

Teaching procedures: Step 1. reading 1)

give a brief introduction to some famous athletes; the focus should be on their achivements and their hardworking; 2)

ask students to scan the text and get the general idea of this text; 3)

teacher hands out a paper on which is the table below and asks students to fill in it;

1 2 3 4 Who

When

Where

What

4)

teacher check answers with students; 5)

ask students to read the text carefully and do exercise 2; this activity can be orgnized in the form of group work; 6)

teacher checks answers; 7)

exercise 3; orgnize a game: tell students “If you will be an athlete, what kind of athlete do you want to be? Now, consider that you have been that athlete. Now, you will give a speech in a match, what will you say? Give the speech to you deskmate and let him or her guess what athlete you want to be.”

Step 2. writing 1)

ask students to fill in the table below Your Favorite Athletes

Name

Date birth of Country

Achivements

Why you like him/her

2)

homework: composition—short biograghy Topic: Your Favorite Athletes Requirements:①it should include the information of name, date of birth, country, achievements and the reason why he or she is your favorite athlete ②the format should be like the text in the book