what sex they are.)

3. What do Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan have in common?

（They are both talented and dedicated. They train hard. They have contributed significantly to their sports. They are extremely successful in their fields. They both have passion and enthusiasm for sports.)

Summary:

Mr. Johnson, a member of the International Olympic Committee, gave a speech about some background knowledge about the history and the development and significance of the Olympic Games and an introduction to some famous Olympic athletes.

The Reading strategy

　　Ask students to read the speech again and while reading the speech. Ask them if they noticed that there were a lot of quotations, interesting stories and statistics in the speech. Then tell them a good speech should:

1. keep the audience interested all the time.

2. use quotations or present statistics.

3. ask questions which doesn't really need answering. But the question may get the audience's brains working.