Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending课堂实录【2】

Book 9 Unit 1 Breaking records 陈发伟

Teaching goals(教学目标) 知识与技能：1.Enable the students to talk about their feeling about sport events and also the Guinness World records. 2.

Help the students talk about the Guinness World records’ sports and surpassing physical limits. 过程与方法：By presenting the topic of some Olympic

sports games,students are aroused to improve their autonomous learning ability and team cooperation as well as their ability to use language. 情感态度和价值观：After learning the text about how Ashrita Furman has surpassed his physical limits to break Guinness records,students are greatly inspired and believe the belief that the road is always ahead of you. Important and difficult points.(教学重难点) 1.

Enable students to grasp some

names of sports activities such as hula hooping,doing jumping jacks,standing on a Swiss ball,pogo stick jumping,somersaulting and doing lunges. 2.

Help students get correct information through reading. Teaching methods(教学方法) Task-based teaching,discussion,cooperative learning Teaching aids(教学用具)

Multimedia,blackboard and learning case Teaching procedure(教学过程) Step 1.Warming up Get the students to talk about pictures in Warming up. T:Let’s look at the pictures on Page 1 and talk about how these participants are feeling. Ss:Exultant.Because Liu Xiang is the first Asian who won the hurdling.,which belongs to the track and field.

Calm.Participants are so strong in some certain spectator sports that are confident in winning the golden medals.

Exciting.Their hard and dull practicing has been rewarded. T:we need make efforts to get a good achievement in some areas that are never succeeded.We admire these sportsmen.However,there are other unconventional maximal exercises.Let’s go on with Pre-reading. Step 2 Pre-reading Ask the students to match the pictures with the name of each activity from the list. Key:F---hula hooping,D---doing jumping jacks,C---standing on the Swiss ball,A---pogo stick jumping,B---somersaulting,E---doing lunges The teacher guides the students to talk about these activities according to the questions on Page1. T:Here is a man,named Ashrita Furman,not only can do these but even set

and keep the Guinness World records. Step 3 Reading Task 1.Skimming

Do true or false exercises on Page3. □physical skills needed for events

□why he became a sportsman

□kinds of records broken

□his occupation

□place and date of birth

□his family life □his first Guinness record

□countries he likes best □number of records broken

□his education Key:physical skills needed for events,kinds of records broken,number of records broken,why he became a sportsman,his education,his first Guinness record Task 2.Careful Reading Now read the story more carefully and answer the following questions in groups. 1. Where do you think Ashrita lives?

(New York City.) 2. How old do you think he is?

(He is around 50.) 3. Has he broken records in all seven continents?

(Yes,he has.) 4. When did he first come across the Guinness Book of World

Records?

(When he was a child.) 5. What are some of the physical difficulties he has experienced when A. walking with a bottle of milk on his head? B. standing on top of a Swiss ball? C. somersaulting? D. doing gymnastically correct lunges? (Refer to Para.3-7) 6. Which one of Sri Chinmoy’s belief led to Ashrita to attempting records?

(Sri Chinmoy says that it’s just as important for people to develop their minds,hearts and spiritual selves.) 7. Why was it amazing that Ashrita came third in the bicycle marathon in 1978? 8. Why did ashrita believe he could accomplish anything after the bicycle marathon? 9. What happens in an event that prevents Ashrita from giving up?

(7-9.He had done no training ever before taking part in the marathon race.Thanks to his spiritual teacher’s encouragement,he was able to get the third place,which was really beyond his imagination.So he firmly believed that he could use his spirit to

accomplish anything.Since then,Ashrita urged himself to never give up.) 10.Do you think that the events that Ashrita participates in are childish?Why or why not? (No,the events tha Ashrita participates in are not childish;rather they are just his unique ways of challenging and proving himself.He always bears the word,”There is only one perfect road.It is ahead of you,always ahead of you.”In his heart,this has become the motivation.) Task 3 Post-reading Here are some of Ashrita’s beliefs.In group,discuss whether you agree with them or not. 1. There is no limit to people’s physical abilities. 2. The body is just an instrument of spirit. 3. You can use your spirit to accomplish anything. 4. There is only one perfect road.It is ahead of you,always ahead of you. The answer may be:I quite agree with his beliefs.His beliefs above can be concluded into one sentence,that is,it is necessary for anyone to have a strong will and a goal.Once the goal is set,one will pursue it willingly,no matter what are in his way.So the aim or expectation leads to success.Besides,patience,persevereance and

strong will ensure the coming of success. Task 4.Fill in the table according to the text. Sport Training needed pogo stick 1. keeping balance jumping 2. jumping and landing with bent knees

somersaultthe feet roll over the head(either forward or ing doing lunges jumping jacks backward)and return start by standing and then step forward with the right foot while touching the left knee to the ground. jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands touching overhead and then returning to a position with the feet together and arms at the sides. hula hooping as flinging the hoop to the left,bring the hip left to meet the hoop and then rotate back and to the right and forward so that the hip are following the rotation of the hoop. Standing 1.take a lot of concentration and a great sense of on a Swiss balance.2.struggle to stay even legs shaking. ball Homework Surf on the Internet and find more about Ashrita and sri Chinmoy.