第一册Period Three

Purpose: to work as a guide of listening part.

Task 2: Listen to three sports reports and fill in the missing information
Purpose: In this activity, the students will hear three sports reports about basketball, football table tennis. It is what they are interested in and to learn to understand sports news report.
Step 4. Homework Assignment
Task: Find out some background information about the Olympics. T will offer them some websites as well:
www.olympic.org www.specialolympics.org/
www.athens.olympics.org/ www.beijing-2008.org
Purpose: This activity is related to the reading material of next period. To encourage Ss to find out the information by themselves.
Teaching procedures of period 2
Step1. Lead-in(10 mins)
Task 1. Collect the information Ss have found, and this is a good chance to present new words. If necessary, warming up Ex can work as a guide. At the same time T will display some relevant pictures.

Five rings Aisa Europe Africa America Oceania
IOC International Olympic committee
Headquater Lausanne Switzerland
Motto swifter higher stronger
Present President Jac ques Rogge
Official language English French Spanish Russian German
Host city of 2000 Olympics Sydney Australia
Host city of 2004 Olympics Athens Greece
Host city of 2008 Olympics Beijing China
Host city of the first Olympics Athens Greece
Sort Winter Olympics Summer Olympics

Purpose: to help Ss get as much background knowledge about the Olympics as possible

Task 2.Group work to discuss any of following questions:
1).Why do so many athletes want to take part in the Olympic Games?
2).Are the Olympic Games important to our society? Why or why not?
Purpose: the activity is designed to get Ss to think about the Olympics as a preliminary activity related to the reading material.
Step2. Reading(10 mins)
Task1.Skimming to find out what is the reading material going to talk about.
Possible answer: the Olympics
Task2. Scanning to find the topic words

Possible answer: the Winter Olympics , the Summer Olympics, the ancient Olympics,
the modern Olympics, the Olympic motto, the 2008 Olympics
Purpose: to train Ss to glance through the passage quickly to get a general idea.
Task3. Careful reading to find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Purpose: to train Ss how to find out the main idea of a paragraph.
Step3.Consolidation(10 mins)
Task1. Play the passage through once and ask Ss to underline some words and phrases they think useful.
Task2.Match the new words and their meanings(See WB Ex)
Task3.Fill in a form about the passage
Olympics Year Location China’s gold medals competitors
old Greece
no female competitors
1st in modern times

23rd

2000
2008 ? ?

Purpose: to have a better understanding of the passage and note some useful words and phrases.

Step4.Discussion(15 mins)
Task1: Group work (group of 4) to discuss the following topics and they can choose whichever they are interested in talking about.
Topic1. What is the s