Unit 2 Sporting events

Part One Teaching Design

第一部分 教学设计

Aims and requirements

♦ read a speech about the history of the Olympics and an article about how a sport gets into the Olympics

♦ listen to a coach give training advice

♦ talk about the Olympic Games and athletes

♦ offer advice to a friend

♦ present a speech about entering a new sport into the Olympic

Procedures

● Welcome to the Unit

Step 1: Brainstorming

　　Good, do you like it? Can you sing it?

　　And I wonder whether you like sports. / Do you like sports?

　　Since you like sports, you may be familiar with some sports stars, let's play a game, ok? I'll give a brief description of a certain sports star and you are asked to guess who she or he is. Are you clear?

1. She is a girl from Beijing; she has once won the 2004 Olympic championship and many titles in the field of table tennis. (Zhang Yining)

　2. He is from Shanghai; he is very tall; now he serves in NBA. (Yao Ming)

　3. He is also from Shanghai, last year in Athens he beat his rivals and became the first Asian to win the gold medal in the men's 110-metre hurdles. (Liu Xiang)

　4. She is a black lady from U.S.A; she and her elder sister are known as the double black pearls in the field of tennis (Little Williams)

Well done! What sports can you play?

What sports do you know?