Unit 2 Sporting events

Reading 

Period 1 

Teaching Aims:

1.      Check a

2.      Train Ss to gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to adopt different reading strategies.

Teaching important points:

1.      Help Ss know some background knowledge about the history and the development of the Olympic Games about.

2.      Help them learn some language items.

Teaching difficult points:

1.      how to read a speech

2.      how to grasp the new words.

Teaching methods:

1.   Improve the students’ reading comprehension.

1.     Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt.

2.     Discussion to make every student work in class.

Teaching aids:

1.     the multi-media

2.     the blackboard.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1.lead in

1.     Talk about the Olympics: ask some questions.

2.     Encourage the students to share their information they have already know and to express their opinions freely..

Step 2. Reading

1.     Ask Ss to skim the article and answer the three questions in Part A.

2.     Ask Ss to reread the passageand do C1 individually.

3.     Get Ss to scan the article again and do C2.

4.     Help Ss to get the idea of the reading strategies.

5.     Ask Ss to answer four questions:

1).What characteristics do the ancient Olympics and modern Olympics share?

2).What are the differences between the ancient and modern Olympic Games?

3).Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan are mentioned in the passage. What do these two sports people have in common?

4).Do you think Chinese athletes such as Deng Yaping and LiuXiang  are as great as Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan?

Step 3. Language items.

1.     Do D in class.

2.     Do E in class

Step 4. Homework.

1.Do Part E.

2.Prepare for the language items.