Reading(1)：The Olympic Games教学设计第一课时

M4Unit 2 The Olympic Games

Reading

2018 05 20

Yang Hongbing 

Leading targets: 1, Listening to speech carefully to obtain the main idea 2,Analyse the structure of the speech 3,Get more detailed information

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Fast reading

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?

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Careful reading

Name Muhammad Ali Michael Jordan

Xu Haifeng

Deng Yaping

Liu Xiang

Zhang Ning

Nationality

Which Olympics

Olympics achievements

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Structure of the speech Para1: Para2: Para3 Para4: 

Task

true or false 1.Everyone was allowed to take part in the ancient Olympics

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) 2.The ancient Olympic Games were held in 776BC.

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3.The contemporary Olympic Games were first held in Rome 1896.

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) 4at the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese women’s badminton team won the gold medal for the first time in history .

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) 5. According to the speech, the speaker is an athlete(

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6. 2012 Olympics will be held in London.

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Match these new words from the speech with their meanings.Write the correct letters in the blanks. 1 delighted (line 2)

a

very pleased

2 tradition(line 10)

b

the fact of someone being away from a

place where they would usually be 3 contemporary(line16)

c

a way of doing thing that has existed for

4 absence( line37)

5 final(line49)

6 attempt(line51）

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Homework

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1、

page24&25 D&E part

2、

read the speech fluently

a long time among a group of people

d

the act of trying to do something

e

modern f

last