Book 1, Lesson 38 --- The Olympic Games

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TEACHING PLAN

钱库高级中学 金子友

Content: Senior Book 1, Lesson 38 --- The Olympic Games

Purpose: To improve the students’ ability to read and comprehend

Activities: reading, pair work ( role play ), group study ( ask & answer ), discussion

Materials needed: pictures, tape recorder, projector etc.

Teaching steps:

1. Revision:

bulary – names of sports

T: Do you like sports? Tell me the names of sports you know.

k the dialogues about sports.

T: Yesterday I asked you to prepare the dialogue about sports. Have you got ready for it?

2. Preparation for reading

( Teach new words by showing pictures. )

1. – Look at the picture, what can you see?

--A flag. Yes, it’s the Olympic Flag.

2. – What colour can you see?

--White, black, yellow, green, red, blue.

Every flag in the world contains at least one of the colours in the Olympic flag.

3. – There are five rings joins together. Can you guess what the five rings are?

--They are the five continents. They are joined together as a sign of friendship.

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An athlete is a sportsman or a sportswoman.

They are athletes.

She is a famous athlete.

She is very good at table tennis.

She always wins in the games. Can you guess who she is?

- Deng Yaping. ( 邓亚萍 )

Yes, she is a very famous athlete of PingPang.

She has always won gold medals in the game. She is the NO.1.

This is her prize for winning the competition.

She has even won in the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games started in Greece many years ago.

Now every 4 years, the Olympic games is held. Athletes from all over the world take part in the Olympic Games.

( The whole class read the new words and sentences. )

三. Reading

1. Read Paragraph 1

( Listen to the tape and let the students try to remember the details, then ask questions. )

How often do athletes from all over the world take part in the Olympics?

- Every 4 years.

Are the Winter Olympics usually held 4 years before the Summer Olympics?

No. It’s 2 years before the Summer Olympics.

1. Read Paragraph 2, 3, 4

1. Listen and read

2. Group study – take turns to ask questions

- tell the history of the Olympics

3. Talk in class

4)Blanks filling exercise

The Olympic Games are the biggest sports meeting in the world. There are ______ kinds of Olympic Games. _____ is the Summer Games, and the _____ is the Winter Olympics. ______ of them are _______ every______ years.

The old Olympic Games ______ around the year 776 BC in Greece. At that time there were not ______ many sports _______ today. And women were not allowed to _______ _______ ______ the games. But now there are many new sports in the Olympics. Just in the Summer Olympics there are more than 250 different sports. And ______ are also allowed to join in the games. They even compete ______ medals ______men in some of the games.

1. Read Paragraph 5

(Ask questions to help students comprehend the text.)

-Can you find the words “Swifter, Higher, stronger” in our school camps?

-Do you know what it means? And where did it come from?

-What do you think of when you have sports on the playground and see the words? Does it encourage you to

do better?

-How many gold medals did Carl Lewis win in the 1984 Olympics?

-Do you know which Chinese athlete won the most gold medals in the Olympic games?

2. Read Paragraph 6

Group study --- discussion

It is said that to hold the Olympic Games is a rich prize for a country. Do you think so? Why?

Has the Olympic Games been held in China? No. Do you still remember the thing happened in 1993? After the 1992 Olympic Games, Beijing City tried to compete against several big cities, including Sydney, for undertaking to hold the 2000 Olympic Games. Did Beijing succeed? No. Beijing had only one ticket less than Sydney. It failed. So in the year 2000, which city will hold the Olympic Games? Sydney.

Questions for discussion:

Why so many cities try to hold the Olympic Games?

- Is any city able to hold the Olympic Games? What kind of city can hold the Olympic Games?

- Why is it said that to hold the Olympic Games is a rich prize for a country?

( If the Olympic Games can be held in the city, the city will be well known to the people all over the world. Millions of people will be interested in the city. They will come to visit it. People will stay in the local hotels, buy things in the stores, have meals in the restaurants, see the places of interest and so on. They spend a lot of money in the city, even in the country. Many new sports grounds, hotels, stores, buildings, roads will be built for the Olympic Games. More jobs will be given to the local people. So the Olympic Games brings in not only the athletes, but also the great riches. It stimulates the development of the economy in this country. )

四．Comprehension exercise

Read the text again, then tell if the sentences are

true or false.

( ) 1. Both the Summer and the Winter Olympics are held every four years.

( ) 2. The modern Olympic Games began around the year 779 BC.

( ) 3. In the old times both men and women were allowed to take part in the Olympic Games.

( ) 4. The first modern Olympic Games happened in the year 400 AD.

( ) 5. The Olympic Games were born in Greece.

( ) 6. The 24th Summer Olympics were held in Barcelona in Spain.

( ) 7. In Barcelona the Chinese team won 16 medals.

( ) 8. Horse-riding is one of the unusual sports in the Olympic Games.

五．Homework

Go through the passage once again, then write a short passage about the history of the Olympic Games.

( about 150 words )