Reading(1)：The Olympic Games教学设计实例

Unit 2

Sports events Reading

The Olympic Games

Teaching Aims: 1.

Enhance students’ reading abilities.

2.

Enable students to adopt the strategy reading a speech and catch the main idea of the text. Teaching Important Points: Help students know some background knowledge about the history and the development of the Olympic Games. Teaching Methods: 1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension.

2.Discussion to make every student work in class. Teaching aids: 1.

the multi-media 2.

the blackboard. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead- in Let the students watch a video about the 29th Olympic Games.

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

The history and significance of the Olympic Games. (2). What was Pierre de Coubertin’s hope when he brought the Olympic Games back to life? He hoped that the Olympic Games would make it possible for people of all countries to live side by side in peace. (3). What does speaker wish for at the end of the speech? He wishes the Olympic Movement a successful future to match its past glory.

2.Complete Exercise on Page 37. 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.

an LOC member

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

776BC

3). Everyone was allowed to take part in the ancient Olympics. Only men were

4). The contemporary Olympic Games were first held in Rome in 1896.

Athens

5). At the 2008 Beijing Olympic, the Chinese women’s badminton team won the gold medal for the first time in history.

gymnastics

6). Zhang Ning was in her late thirties when she competed in the 2008 Olympic Games.

early

2. Try to fill in the form according to the passage. Answers: Name Nationality Which Olympic Muhammad Ali American 1960 Olympic Other achievements information medal, won his first Rome Gold boxing Olympics World

Boxing Championship ;lit the Olympic flame at 1966 Atlanta Olympics

Michael Jordan American 1984 Angles Los Two medals, gold

Olympics;1992 basketball Barcelona Olympics Xu Haifeng Chinese 1984 Angeles Los Gold medal Won the first Olympic gold

Olympics Deng Yaping Chinese 1992 Barcelona Olympics; 1996 Atlanta Olympics

Liu Xiang Chinese 2004 Athens Gold men’s 110-metre hurdles Zhang Ning Chinese Four medal for China

gold

medals, table tennis medal, The first Asian to win this race Olympics 2008 Beijing gold medals, won the gold Olympics badminton medal at the age of 33

Step 4 Discussion 1. Do you think Chinese athletes such as DengYaping and LiuXiang are as great as Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan? Why? 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 5Homework Read the passage.