The football match

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector

Teaching Objectives:

1. Understand the text.

2. Learn some useful expressions.

Language focus:

　　surprising / surprised, used to do something, lose to somebody,

unhappy/ unlucky, deserve to do something, become confident

Teaching Procedures:

　　I. Showing the teaching aims

　　II. Revision

Check homework. Get the students to act out the dialogue.

　　III. Leading in

　　Get the students to look at the picture. It’s about a football match. Ask: What do you know about football? How many players are there on a team? (11) How do you play football? (You may try to kick the ball into the goal. And you can’t use your hands. Only the goalkeeper can use his or her hands. )

　　IV. Presentation

　　Let the students discuss the picture first, then ask: What’s happening in the paragraph? Then get the students to read the instructions. Try to find the answer. (The boy’s team has some very good players, but they were too confident, they played carelessly, so they deserved to lose.)

　　V. Reading

　　Look at Exercise 1 in the workbook. Read through the questions first, then read the text carefully. Discuss the answers with the partners. Finally check the answers with the whole class.

Deal with some difficulties in the passage.

　　VI. Practice

Play the tape. Listen to it and then repeat sentence by sentence. Give the students a few minutes to read the text aloud. Check their pronunciation.

　　VII. Workbook

Go through Exercises 2 and 3. Let the students do them individually, then check the answers together. The answers to Exercise 2 are: football, with, beat, lost, beaten, unhappy, confident, joke, carelessly, well, half, lost, win, teamwork.

　　VIII. Consolidation

Review the football vocabulary, then let the students retell the story.

　　IX. Summary

Exercises in class

以“Football”为题，写一篇50～60个词的短文，要求语言流畅简练、准确。

提示词语：popular, all over the world, young people like, be good at, favourite sport, classmates, after school, often, play, hope

　　X. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.

2. Retell the story.

《The football match》