Project(1): Making a speech about sport优质课教学设计

Unit2 Making a speech about sport- project [Teaching design] 1.The core competences: Knowledge ability:

To get the students to understand how a sport enters the Olympics and complete the task given and to use the knowledge they have learned to communicate with classmates freely. Thinking ability: To help students to strengthen their memory, to improve their ability of creative thinking and comprehension and to stimulate students’ creativity.

Learning ability: To get students to understand how to read a speech and how to make a speech: tell interesting stories to arouse audiences’

curiosity; use quotations or present statistics to support the idea; ask questions in the end to interact with the audiences.

Cultural awareness: 1)To get the students better understand the relevant background information of Chinese national treasure –Wushu . 2). To arouse students’ sense of pride as a Chinese and that of responsibility to inherit and promote the Chinese national

treasure—Wushu. 2.Teaching important points:

1). To get the students to know basic knowledge about three requirements for a sport to enter the Olympics. 2). To get the students to learn about changing sports in Olympics. 3). To get the students to make a speech about introducing Wushu to International Olympic Committee members. 3.Teaching difficult points:

To make a clear speech about Wushu within limited time. 4.Teaching methods: 1). Task-based teaching and learning 2). Cooperative learning 3). Dicussion

5.Teaching procedure：

Step 1 Pre-reading

Ask students what sports they like and share with them the teacher’s experience. Then watch a video about sports and answer the question ‘what sports can you see in the video?’

Pictures of sports included in the video are provided, like judo, golf, beach volleyball with the attempt to help students better understand these sports.

Finally, ask students what these sports have in common and what are the requirements for a sport to enter the Olympics, then smoothly lead to the passage one in project in the textbook. Step 2 While-reading 1.

Read the text quickly and try to answer the following two questions: 

What are three requirements of a sport to enter the Olympics? Suggested answer: a. a sport must have its own international association; b. a sport must be practiced by men in 75 countries on 4 continents or by women in 40 countries on 3 continents; c. in order for a new sport to be added, another sport must be dropped. Therefore, the added sport should have distinctive features or benefits to be qualified enough.

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Which one is still trying to get into Olympics?

Wushu—Chinese martial arts

2.

Analyze the background information about Wushu and discuss whether it meets all those three requirements. For the first requirement: Wushu has its own international association called International Wushu Federation, which was founded in 1990. For the second requirement: Wushu is practiced by people in 120 countries on 5 continents.

And it is now very popular all around the world.

For the third requirement: Wushu has distinctive features and benefits: defend/protect oneself; be flexible; keep healthy; relax oneself; cultivate good qualities.

Based on the above mentioned background information, students could easily make a conclusion that Wushu meets all those three requirements.

Step 4 Post-reading

1. Discussing and writing a speech

Write a speech: how to introduce Wushu to International Olympic Committee members. The following three parts should be included: 

Introduction: give greetings, tell them who you are and what is your purpose. 

Main body: use detailed information to support your idea with the background knowledge of association, popularity and benefits of Wushu. 

Conclusion: make a summary and mention your hope.

2.

Making a speech: Ask some students to deliver the speech in front of all students and make comments on their performance.

3.

Summarizing: Make a summary about Wushu—our Chinese national treasure. Arouse students’

sense of pride and sense of responsibility to inherit and promote this national treasure.

Step 5 Assignment

Ask students to polish the speech after class.

6.

Blackboard design：

Make a speech about sport Benefits

be healthy defend/protect oneself be strong relax oneself cultivate good qualities Conclusion Main body Introduction