Unit Six Olympics and Sports
Teaching Goals:
1. Understand a sports event poster 2. Invite someone to see a sports event
3. Talk about and comment on a sports event 4. Invite friends to take part in outdoor activities 5. Design and write a sports event poster
Focal Points:
1. Understanding and designing a sports event poster 2. Key words and expressions
Difficult Points:
1. Talk about and comment on a sports event
2.You should know about Successful Beijing Olympic Games
Teaching Time: 8 periods
Teaching Procedures and Class Activities
SECTION I Talking Face to Face 1 Lead-in activities: Imitating Mini-Talks 1. Warm-up questions:
1) What sports or outdoor activities do you like most?
2) What information do you think a sports event poster should contain?
2. Class Activities:
1. The students read the Mini-Talks after the teacher, and then try to recite them within five minutes in pairs.
2. Ask the students to recite and perform the mini talks in class.
3. The students discuss in groups, summarizing the words, phrases and sentences
frequently used
according to the following topics with the help of the teacher. The students speak out the sentences under the guidance of the teacher, paying attention to the pronunciation and the intonation.
1) The way to talk about a sports event poster:
(1) Haven’t you seen the poster of the friendly basketball match organized by the
Students’ Union?
(2) Look! There is a colored poster on the notice board.
(3) A poster in the club lounge says there will be a fishing contest this weekend. (4) Let’s design a poster for it.
(5) How should we decorate the poster to make it more attractive?
(6) Look at the poster. It seems that there will be an exciting event happening in
the community.
(7) Let’s make a poster for the badminton match together.
2) The way to invite people to see a sports event:
(1) There is a basketball match at the college gymnasium. Would you like to go and watch it?
(2) I’m eager to watch the game. Would you like to go with me?
(3) It says there will be a chess game at the Students’ Center on Sunday. Let’s go to watch it.
(4) We are going to hold a marathon race next week.
(5) Are you interested in the tug-of-war matches in the college?
(6) Would you like to join us in supporting the college football team tonight?
3) The way to talk about or give comments on a sports event:
(1) The match is really interesting and exciting. (2) Picnicking is a very good outdoor activity. (3) Both the teams played incredibly well.
(4) I am crazy about the performance of our team.
(5) Our team has an unbelievable victory against the other school team.
4) The way to invite people to take part in outdoor activities: (1) Are you interested in fishing?
(2) I enjoy fishing a lot. It’s a healthy sport. Why not go fishing with us?
(3) Mountain climbing is a very good outdoor activity. Will /Would you like to join us in climbing the mountain outside the city this Sunday?
(4) How about picnic? Picnicking is a very interesting outdoor activity. Most people enjoy having a picnic in summer.
Studying Posters
1. Warm-up questions:
1) What do you think is the use of a poster? 2) What can we know from a poster?
2. The students read and translate the two sample posters under the guidance of the teacher.
2 Act-out activities: Sample dialogues
1. The students read the sample dialogues after the teacher, trying to imitate the
teacher’s pronunciation and intonation.
2. Ask the students to read the sample dialogues in pairs.
3. Groups work: Ask the students to categorize the useful sentences in the sample dialogues into two groups.
1) Sentences used for inviting people to watch sports games and giving responses:
(1) There is a basketball match at the city gymnasium. Would you like to go to
watch it?
(2) Let’s go to cheer/support for our team. (3) I’m eager to watch the game.
(4) Are you going to the rowboat match?
(5) Are you going to be on the Chinese students’ team? (6) What time is the match and where?
2) Sentences used for commenting on sports events: (1) The Normal University team is not easy to beat. (2) The match will be very exciting. (3) Wow! That’s going to be exciting.
4. Group work: Each group member is required to invent a sports event poster, and
then tell and show it to the other members.
5. Pair work: Make a dialogue about inviting your partner to watch a basketball
game. Perform it in class. 6. Do Exercises 5 and 6 in pairs.
3 After-class activities:
1. Pair work: Each pair makes a dialogue according to the tips in one of the five tasks in Speak and Perform. There will be a class presentation in the next class period. 2. Group work: Design a sports event poster using PPT, present it and practice talking about this poster to other groups in the next class period.
3. Pay a visit to the website http://www.so138.com/bbsv/1091-4059.xhtml to watch the video about giving comments on a sports event.
SECTION II Being All Ears
1 Learning Sentences for Workplace Communication
1. Give the students a few minutes to read through the printed materials for each listening item.
2. Listen to the tape for the first time by looking at the corresponding Chinese version. While listening to the English sentences, the students try to remember the meaning of each of the sentences they have heard. The focus here is on cross-reference of the English sentences and their Chinese meanings.
3. Play the tape for a second time, and ask the students to do the exercises in this section.
4. Play the tape for the third time with a pause after each sentence, and ask the students to repeat the sentence during the pause.
2 Handling a Dialogue
1. Give the students a few minutes to read through the printed materials for each listening item.
2. Listen to the tape for the first time without looking at the book.
3. Play the tape for a second time, and ask the students to answer the following
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