Sports

　　teaching plan for unit 8 sports

　　chen weifeng from xiting senior middle school, jiangsu

　　teaching aims and demands

　　类别

　　课程标准要求掌握的项目     

　　话题

　　1.  talk about sports

　　2.  talk about interests and hobbies

　　3.  talk about the olympics

　　4.  write a sports star’s profile

　　功能

　　interests and hobbies

　　which do you like…or …?

　　what’s your favorite sport?

　　which sport do you like best?

　　which do you prefer…or…?

　　what about…?

　　are you interested in…?

　　词汇

　　continent well-known athlete gold medal torch badminton tie final dive shooting

　　greece competitor motto further rank gymnastics prepare preparation effect flame

　　compete flag weight position superstar point skill weigh title gesture facial

　　stand for  because of  speed skating  track and field  take part 

　　in preparation for

　　语法

　　future passive voice

　　the people of beijing will plant more trees and build new roads.(陈述句)

　　more trees will be planted and new roads will be built by the people of beijing.

　　beijing will hold the 29th olympic games in the year 2008.（疑问句）

　　when will the 29th olympic games be held in beijing.

　　period arrangements:

　　warming up                                                          reading materials

　　period 1            listening                                    period 2,3

　　speaking                                                             language focus

　　listening (wb)                                         complementary listening material

　　speaking

　　period 4           speaking                            period 5         complementary reading material

　　writing(wb)

　　integrating skill(writing)                           assessment

　　ss know a lot about sports from everyday life and media, so i arrange such a task -discussion(group of 4):

　　q: what do you know about sports?

　　during this process, if ss can’t express themselves in english, chinese is also all right. besides, it is a

　　good chance to present new words. if necessary, i will make some complements. at the same time, i will present them as many pictures about sports as possible.

　　possible response:

　　school sports meet                                           

　　sports meet          the national games 

　　the asian games

　　the olympic games

　　the world cup

　　etc

　　ball games: volleyball, basket ball, football, table tennis, tennis, ,golf

　　badminton, bowling, baseball, american football, ice hockey etc

　　events of sports          track and field: relay race, long jump, high jump, pole jump, discus, shot, javelin etc

　　gymnastic: rings, double bars, high and low bars, horse , free exercise

　　swimming/shooting/skiing/ ice sports/diving/aquatic sports etc

　　sport stars : beckham, mike owen, michael jordan etc

　　purpose: this activity is designed to encourage students to think about sports and activate

　　relevant vocabulary.

　　task1(pair work): talk about their favourite sports, favourite sports stars, and the reason why they like them, with the following expressions as a guide.(see sb p52)

　　task2(pair work): a survey about physical fitness (see postscript 1)

　　task3(group work): add up their total scores and divide by the number of people. then get their group’s average scores. discuss their survey answers.

　　1). do you think your group is doing well or not? why ?

　　2). how can you become fitter?

　　purpose: the students will use the information from the above step to talk about their interests and hobbies and to practise giving reasons for their opinions.

　　task 1: brainstorming(encourage ss to tell me as many words about that as possible)

　　basketball

　　table tennis

　　football

　　purpose: to work as a guide of listening part.

　　task 2: listen to three sports reports and fill in the missing information

　　purpose: in this activity, the students will hear three sports reports about basketball, football table tennis. it is what they are interested in and to learn to understand sports news report.

　　step 4. homework assignment

　　task: find out some background information about the olympics. t will offer them some websites as well:

　　purpose: this activity is related to the reading material of next period. to encourage ss to find out the information by themselves.