Module 5 The Great Sports Personality

Period Four： Cultural Corner

（1）三维目标

A．Knowledge and skills

1) Get the students to learn and grasp the following important useful new words and expressions in the part:

rise to, at first, pick up, in the end, declare, extraordianry, is thought to, in practise

It is estimated that ...

2) Learn the language in this part and get the students to learn about "Marathon"

B．Process and methods

1) Talking about the sport "Marathon"

2) Read passages in several ways

C. Emotion, attitude and values

Learning to understand the importance of sports spirit

（2）教学重点

Let the students learn to read with strategies

（3）教学难点

How to improve students skill of reading and master more vocabulary.

（4）教学建议

Train students speaking ability through talking about the spirit of sports.

新课导入设计

Sample1

Talk about the passage after students go through the passage:

1. Read the passage and answer the questions.

1 .What are the origins of the marathon?

Legend says a Greek soldier ran from Marathon to Athens to tell the Greek Victory.

2. Why is the marathon the last Olympic event?

Because it ______________ be the hardest event.

Sample 2

Let students guess the true or false questions:

1) The whole distance of the marathon is about 42 kilometres.

2) The marathon started in a battle between Greece and Persia.

3) In the 1908 Olympics an American runner won the marathon.

4) Nowadays the marathons can be watched out of the Olympics.

5) Only people who are good at sport can run a marathon.