disabilities a chance to show their skills to the world. They include many events __________ to those in the _______, such as basketball, football and _________. ________ 40,000 people ________ up their spare time for the event. It's ___________ for volunteers to receive ________ before doing the tasks.
Liu Ming was the swimming _________ for a young boy called Li Hai. To him, the most important thing is not to win a ________ or a silver, but to take part. He feels more ____________ because of the Special Olympics World Games. The Special Olympics World Games also make ___________ and volunteers from different ____________ feel like part of one big family. Step 3 Language points
1. volunteer for the Special Olympics World Games 为夏季特奥会做志愿者
volunteer vi. & vt. 志愿做，义务做 volunteer for ... 志愿做……；主动做…… e.g. No one volunteered for cleaning the henhouse. 没有人主动去清理鸡舍。
volunteer to ... 志愿做……；主动提出…… e.g. He volunteered to water our plants. 他主动提出给我们的植物浇水。 volunteer n. 义务工作者；志愿者
e.g. Schools need volunteers to help children to read.
学校需要义务工作者帮助儿童阅读。
【拓展】 the Special Olympics World Games 世界特殊奥运会
世界特殊奥运会是一个为全世界智力缺陷儿童及成年人提供体育训练和比赛的国际体育运动民间团体。成立于1968年，其主要任务是帮助和推动世界各国开展智障人体育运动。上海举办了2007年第12届世界夏季特奥会。中国是亚洲第一个举办该项赛事的国家。
2. The Special Olympics World Games give children and adults with intellectual disabilities a chance to show their skills to the world.
特奥会给有智力缺陷的孩子和成人一个向全世界展示能力的机会。
（1）句中的with intellectual disabilities 为后置定语，修饰children and adults。介词短语作定语一般要后置。如： The key to my bicycle is missing. 我的自行车钥匙丢了。
（2）句中的chance 意识是“机会”，名词。如： Please give me a chance to explain. 请给我一个解释的机会。
短语by chance意为“偶然地；碰巧”。
e.g. I met one of my old friends by chance yesterday. 【运用】根据汉语意思完成下列英语句子，每空一词。 1) 你曾经给过他不止一次机会吗？
Did you ever give him more than ________ ________? 2) 这件事是偶然发生的。 It happened ________ ________.
3. They include many events similar to those in the Olympics, such as basketball, football and swimming.
特奥会包括很多与奥运会类似的项目，如篮球、足球和游泳。
短语similar to those in the Olympics为后置形容词短语， 用于修饰events。similar 意思是“相似的，类似的”。be similar to 意为“与……相似 / 相仿”。 如： His teaching style is similar to that of most teachers. 他的教学风格和多数教师相似。
be similar in 表示“在某方面相似 / 相仿”。 e.g. The two houses are similar in shape. 这两个房子在形状上相似。 【运用】根据句意，用恰当的介词填空。
1) Your views on education are similar ______ Mr Wang’s. 2) The two cars are similar only _____ color.
4. Over 40,000 people gave up their spare time for the 2007 Special Olympics World
Games.
give up 意为“放弃”，其后可接动词-ing形式。
e.g. Nick’s father had to give up smoking because of his illness. give up后还可跟名词(短语)。
e.g. Ed’s mother gave up her job to look after him.
注意：代词作give up的宾语时要放在give和up之间。 e.g. This is a good chance. I won’t give it up. 【运用】根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。 1) 杰夫已经放弃学法语了吗？
Has Jeff _______ ____ _________ French? 2) 请不要放弃他们。
Please don’t ______ ______ _____.
5. Then they provided support for the athletes and helped make the event a great success.
然后志愿者们为运动员提供支持，使本届特奥会取得很大的成功。 （1）句中的support可以用作名词或动词，意思是“支持”。如： Thank you for your support. 谢谢你的支持。 Thank you for supporting me. 感谢你支持我。
（2）动词help后接另一动词，中间可以省略to。如： They helped stop the fire. 他们帮忙灭了火。
6. He was born with intellectual disabilities. 他生下来就有智力问题。
短语be born with 意思是“生来具有……”。如： He was born with a weak heart. 他生来心脏虚弱。 7. It's very brave of him to join the competition. 他参加竞赛真的很勇敢。
句型It's + adj. + of sb. to do sth. 通常表示说话人对客观事件的惊讶、兴奋、懊悔、难过等感叹情绪。该句型中用作表语的形容词常见的有如下几类: （1）表示聪明或愚蠢的形容词,有clever, wise, foolish, stupid, silly, unwise,
dumb(愚笨的), absurd (荒谬的)等。如： It’s silly of him to do such a thing. 他竟干出这样的事, 真是愚蠢!
（2）表示正确或错误的形容词, 有 right, wrong, correct, incorrect 等。 如: It was right of her not to come here. 她没有来这儿, 太对了!
（3）表示好坏等品性的形容词, 此类词较多, 有 good, nice, kind, sweet, friendly, lovely, wonderful, jolly(快活的), bad, unkind, naughty, wicked(坏的,邪恶的)等。 如: It’s friendly of you to come and see me. 你能来看我, 真够朋友!
（4）表示褒义或贬义色彩的形容词, 有brave, polite, careless, selfish等。如: It was brave of you to manage to do it. 你居然能做成这件事, 真勇敢!
8. To Li Hai, the most important thing is not to win a gold or a silver, but to take part. 对李海来说，最重要的东西不是赢得一块金牌或银牌，而是参与。 no t … but … 不是……而是…… e.g. PE is not my favourite, but Music.
我最喜欢的不是体育而是音乐。 9. Li Hai tried his best and finished fourth. 李海尽了最大努力并取得第四名。
当序数词表示名次时，其前面的定冠词通常可以省略。如： Who won (the) first prize? 谁获得了一等奖？
10. “It’s great for us to work closely with these special athletes. You get to help them achieve their dreams,” says Liu Ming.
“能和这些特殊运动员们近距离共事真的很棒。你有机会帮助他们实现梦想。” 刘明说。
句中的achieve意思是“达到（某目标、地位、标准）”。如： He finally achieved success. 他终于成功了。 Step 4 Exercises
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