Unit 8 sports

Period one: Warmimg up and speaking

一.Type of the lesson: New lessons.

二.Teaching Aims:

1.To improve the students’ speaking ability.

2.To practice expressing their opinion about sports.

3.To learn to use the following useful expressions.

4.To encourage the students to join in different sports club after class and then give some reports about their activities in oral.

三.Teaching focus: Improving the students’ skill of getting special information

四.Teaching aids: tape-recorder and picture

五. Teaching procedures:

Step1: Lead in

Q 1. Do you like sports?

2. Which sport do you like best?

3. Can you tell me what the most famous sports meeting is in the world?

4. How much do you know about the Olympic Games?

Step II. Ask the students to do the quiz in the warming up.

Step III. Are you tired? You should go out and have some sports. Doing more exercise is good for your health. Revise the names of sports you know. (relay race ,high jump, archery ,badminton, boxing, track and field, taekwondo, water polo, weightlifting, handball, cycling, field hockey, fencing, shooting, wrestling, horse-riding, synchronized swimming

Step IV . T: Are you interested in table tennis?

What about basketball?

Which do you prefer, table tennis or basketball?

2. Ask the students to read the useful expressions carefully on page 52.

Step V:

Task I Make a report

Situation: As you are a sport reporter, you want to do some research on the students’ favorite sports in your class. Please interview your classmates which sport they like best? Why? And then finish the table on page 52.

Task II Tom and Lily are talking about their favourite sports and sportsman while watching the Olympic Games.

Step VI: homework

Task: Ask the students to organize different sports club. According to their own interests, they join in different sports club. Take part in some activities in their club, write a report about the activities and then present the reports to all their classmates in class orally.

六.Blackboard design:

relay race ,high jump, archery ,badminton, boxing, track and field, taekwondo, water polo, weightlifting, handball, cycling, field hockey, fencing, shooting, wrestling, horse-riding, synchronized swimming

八.Record after teaching:

Period Two: Listening

一.Type of the lesson: Listening

二.Teaching Aims: To improve the Ss’ listening ability

三.Teaching aids: Recorder and projector

四. Teaching procedures:

Step 1.Do you often watch sports news?Chinese or English news? Now listen to the radio English sports news.

Step2: Listening

1. Play the tape for the first time. Let the students be familiar with the voice and the speed of speaking .

Q : What sport are they playing?

2. Look at the blackboard and get the answer.

3. Ask the students to listen to the report on the tape again and then work in groups to make a guessing.

Q : Who won?

What was the result?

4. Ask the students to listen again and then fill in the blanks by themselves.

5. Check the answers in pairs or in groups.

6. Read the passage and recheck the answers.

II Report 2 同上

III Report 3 同上

Unit 8 sports

Period 3. Reading

Type of the lesson: New lessons.

Aims:-to help the students to understand the text by research and reading.

-to improve the students’ reading and speaking ability.

-to encourage the students to build up a good physique and foster their patriotic values.

Preparation: to encourage the students to research some information about the Olympic Games

Teaching aids: multimedia computer, tape recorder

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Procedure:

I. Warming up: The T shows the picture of the Olympic Flag to the Ss. The teacher may ask a question like this: “Do you know the Olympic flag?”

1. T:---- Look at the picture. What can you see?-----A flag. Yes, It’s the Olympic Flag.

------What colour can you see?

------White ,black, yellow, green, red, blue.(Every flag in the world contains at least one of the colours in the Olympic flag.)

------Five rings join together.Can you guess what the five rings are?

-------They are five continents. They are joined together as a sign of friendship.

2.Check their answer and see who is the best in answering the questions.(pre-reading on p.52. Ask students to discuss the questions in groups. Then show their answers.)

II Reading:

Step I : While reading:

I. Ask the students to read the text and do T or F exercises on page 53.

Divide the whole class into two groups: Team A and Team B, to have a compitition.

II.Ask the students to listen and read the text again, and then fill in the form.

Ask the students to have another competition between Team A and Team B.

The ancient

Olympic Games The modern

Olympic Games

Time From 776BC to 393AD From 1896 to now

Place In Greece In many other places

Athlete Only men Men and women

sports Many sports are the same as they are now All kinds of sports

(3) Ask the students to read aloud and underline the difficult language.

work on the difficult sentences:

① Following the history-making success in the 2000 Sydney the Olympic Games, China won another great competition in 2001 which was not for a medal.

Q: what does “the history-making success” mean?

When did China win another great competition?

What does “which” refer to?

Put the sentence into Chinese.

② The people of Beijing, and of the whole country, will be preparing to light the Olympic torch to welcome athletes and sports fans from all over the world.

Q: Who will be preparing to light the Olympic torch?

Put the sentence into Chinese.

Step III. Post Reading.

I. Ask the students to say something about the Olympic Games.( T show some numbers to the Ss

　　1)4years 2)776BC 3)393AD 4)1896(311/13) 5)2000(10000/227/300 6)1984(28/3th 7)2008　)　

Task: Suppose you are an official from the Olympic Organization. You ask the people of Beijing what they know about the Olympic games so that you will tell the world that Beijing is the most qualified city to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

They can make a dialogue in pairs then show the others.

II. Discuss the following questions about the text you have just read.

Q1. What’s the great meaning of our holding the 2008 Olympic Games? What do you think you prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games ?

STEP Ⅶ:Exercise:

　　Ask the Ss to fill in the passage according to the text.

　　The Olympic Games are held every 1 years. Athletes 2 all over the world 3 it.

　　The old Olympic Games began around the year 4 in Greece. Many of the sports were the same 5 they are now. 6 were not allowed to take part in it.

　　After about the year 7 the Olympic Games stopped. For 8 there were no Olympic Games.

　　The first Olympic Games 9 happened in 10 . It was held in Greece. There are 11

competitors from just 12 countries. In 1992 over 13 competitors from more than 14 countries went to Barcelona for the 15 Summer Olympics! There are over 16 different sports in the games. Sailing, horse riding and shooting are some of the unusual sports. In Barcelona the Chinese team got 17 gold medals, of which 18 were won by women.

Assignment:

Write a short passage about Olympic Games, using as much as possible that you have learned from this class.

Period 4: Grammar

Type of the lesson: New lessons.

Teaching Aims:

To enable the students to use the Future Passive Voice.

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Teaching procedure:

Step 1:Lead in: Review the Passive Voice in different tenses.

Describe the pictures.

How often is Olympic Games held? When was the first Olympic Games held?

What will happen in Beijing in 2008?

T: Today we’ll learn the Future Passive Voice, which gives the idea that something will happen in the future.

Step II 1.Ask the students to do exercise 1 on p 55, and find out the structure.

1) Individual work.

2) Pair work to check each other’s answers.

1) How to form the Future Passive Voice?

2. Complete exercise 2 (P55)

1) Individual work.

2) Pair work to check each other’s answers.

3) How to form questions using the Future Passive Voice?

Step III Communicating with the grammar .

Ask Ss to Try to use the Future Passive Voice as much as possible to express ideas according to the following situations.

Situation1: Imagine the world in the year of 5000 what will our life be like then? Make a list of the things that you think will be done differently from what they are done now.

Situation2: Talk about the plan to develop our hometown or our school.

Step IV. Sum up the characteristic of the Future Passive Voice

(on the blackboard)

Step V. Homework

On the Wb. P130 exercise 2.

Period 5:Word study

Aims: Help the students to understand and use the key words and phrases:

Contents: Take part in, exciting, happen, win, prepare

Aids: worksheets

Procedures:

Step I. Review some words in the text.

Teacher can have a dictation:

1. Every four years athletes from all over the world take part in the Olympic Games.

2. The Winter Olympic games are usually held two years before the Summer Olympic games.

3. The people of Beijing and of the whole country, will be preparing to light the Olympic torch to welcome athletes and sports fans from all over the world.

4. The match is very exciting and all the audiences are very excited.

Step II Word study:

I. take part in join

Understand the meanings of the phrases.

1. Every four years athletes from all over the world take part in the Olympic Games. (join in)

5. The Swiss did not take part in the two World Wars.(join in)

6. We are going to play basketball this afternoon. Will you join us? ( be a member of )

7. My brother joined the army in 1998. (a member of)

Fill in the blanks.

1) Jim thought the new boy liked the game and asked him to __join___ them.

2) Do you __take part in ___ the school sports meeting every year?

3) I am so glad to ___join___ your club.

4) The national college entrance exam is held every year. The students who want to go to college take part in the exam.

II. exciting

(1). Ask students to read the text to find out the words about feeling.

excited interested; disappointed; surprised……

(2). Ask students to describe these pictures with some adj. words.

He is so excited. They are so disappointed The match is very exciting.

(3). Please read the following sentences and try to find out the difference between “exciting” and “excited”.

1. What are you so excited about?

2. The excited children were opening their Christmas presents.

3. Titanic was the most exciting film of the year.

4. In my opinion, skiing is more exciting than skating.

Choose the correct word.

1) He told me an _____ story. (interesting)

2) The _____ children forgot to take the presents to the party. (interested)

(5)surprised, surprising

1) All the students got ________ when they saw the famous sports star. (surprised)

2) She made a _____ decision. (surprising)

(6)interesting, interested

1) It is an _____ book. (interesting)

2) I am not _____ in classical music. (interested)

(7)disappointed, disappointing

1) He told me that he couldn’t come to my party. There was a _____ look on his face. (disappointed)

2) The weather this summer has been _____. (disappointing)

III. hold

Put the underlined words into Chinese.

1. To hold the Olympic Games is a rich prize for a country. (舉行)

2. My father held my hands and tried to comfort me. (抓住)

3. Is that branch strong enough to hold your weight. (承受)

4. Hold yourself upright when you walk. (保持某種狀況)

8. This theatre holds more than a thousand persons. (可容納)

IV. prepare

Put these sentences into Chinese and try to find the different usage of prepare.

1. My mother is preparing a meal for my birthday. ( prepare sb./sth)

2. The soldiers prepared to go into battle.

3. The meal is in preparation.

4. We’re getting things together in preparation for the journey.

Put the sentences into English:

1) Lucy 為明天的郊游準備了許多食品.

___________________________________.

2) Tom 已做好參加明天籃球賽的準備.

_____________________________________.

3)晚會的所有東西正在準備之中.

__________________________________.

Answers:

1. Lucy has prepared a lot of food for tomorrow’s trip.

2. Tom has prepared to have the basketball match of next day.

3. All the things for the party is in preparation.

Passage:

Over 10,200 athletes from 200 countries took part in the 2000 Olympic Games held in Sydney. We watched so many exciting matches during those days. Our Chinese athletes really did well in their games because they know it was very important for us to win the bid for the 2008 Olympics.

Period 6: Integrating skills

Type of the lesson: Reading and writing.

Teaching aim: 1. Help the students to understand the profile of Yao Ming.

2. Train the students’ writing ability by writing a profile.

Content of the lesson: 1. Topic: famous sports stars

2. Functional sentences: writing profiles

3. Vocabulary: book P189.

Teaching focus: Writing profiles.

Teaching aids: tape recorder, computer, projector, worksheet.

Moral aims: Ask the Ss to learn from some sports stars who have a strong will.

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Task before the lesson: (The talk will be given 3 days before the lesson)

Ask students to try to find out the information of their own favorite sports stars and fill in the form below.

My favorite sports star

Name 　 Age 　

Photo

Nationality 　

Gender 　 Born 　

Weight 　 Height 　

Sports 　 Team 　

Award 　

Why do you like him/her?

　

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Teaching Procedure:

Step 1. lead in:

Help students to review some sports’ names in English.

Step 2. Learn the passage about Yao Ming:

I. Show some pictures and information about Yao Ming and ask the students to guess who he is.

II. Ask students to open their books . Listen and read the passage about Yao Ming. While listening and reading, think about two questions:

1. How many points per game did he score in his last season with the Shanghai Sharks.

2. What is Yao Ming working hard to do?

III. Check their answers.

IV. Ask the students to read the passage loudly, Then discuss one question in groups of four.

What makes him/her great? ( Why do people like him?)

V. Listen to the student’s ideas and write on the blackboard.

Step 3. Ask students to describe their favorite stars orally.

(according to the task which teacher gave 3 days before)

I. Ask students to come to the blackboard to tell some information about their favorite sports stars ,but not to tell his/ her name. Then ask other students to guess who he is talking about.

II. Teacher presents her report on Deng yapping in written form.

Step 4. Ask the students to write a profile of their favorite sports stars according to the information they have prepared.

I. Give the students 5 minutes to write a profile of their favorite sports stars in the blank below their forms.

II. In their profiles, they should include the information blow:

1.When and where was he/she born?

2. How much does he/she weigh and how tall is he/she?

3.What kind of sport does he/she play?

4. What titles or awards has he /she got?

5. Why do you like him/her?Teacher also gives an example of Deng yaping

Deng ya ping is my favorite sports star. She was born on February 6th, 1973. She is 1.50metres tall and weighs 53 kg. She began to play ping pong when she was very young and in 1988 she was chosen to the National team. She has won 14 championships in the world matches and 4 gold medals in the Olympic Games. She does more than just playing sports. She sets a good example for others to follow. She is a player who works hard at her training and is strict with herself. So I think she is truly a great person.

IV. Ask the students to read their profiles in the front of the classroom.

Step 5. Homework:

The sports meeting of our school has finished. Which player do you like? Would you please interview him/her and write a profile of him/her.

Or you can choose one person you think is very great and write a profile of him/ her. ( He/she can be your parent , friend, classmate, or teacher.)