一、 Teaching materials:

Unit1 Cycling is more dangerous than swimming.(Module6 The Olympic adventure)

二、 Targets for this period:

To understand conversations about sports

To process information of comparison concerning sports

To talk about the sports one likes using comparative forms

三、Key points:

Key vocabulary--basketball, cycling, gymnastics, running, skiing, table tennis, dangerous, safe, difficult, easy, exciting, boring, expensive, cheap, popular, relaxing

Key structures – more…than…

四、Teaching methods:

Task-based approach and interactive approach

五、Teaching aids

Tape recorder, video, OHP, supplementary exercises

六、Teaching arrangements:

Step One Revision 根據提示完成句子。

1. Beijing/ Cambridge / big (Beijing is bigger than Cambridge.)

2. An elephant /a monkey /strong (An elephant is stronger than a monkey.)

3. Hong Kong / Dalian / busy (Hong Kong is busier than Dalian.)

4. London / Shanghai / cool / in summer (London is cooler than Shanghai in summer.)

5. Hong Kong / Beijing/ hot/ in summer? (Is Hong Kong hotter than Beijing in summer?)

6. Chang Jiang /the River Thames /wide? (Is Chang Jiang wider than the River Thames?)

Step Two New words and expressions learning

1. Students read after the tape

2. To correct some pronunciations

Step Three Language points

1. excite ------ exciting ------ excited

tire ------ tiring ------ tired

bore ------ boring ------ bored

relax ------ relaxing ------ relaxed

interest ------ interesting ------ interested

(v.) (使)… (adj.)令人/使人…(修飾物) (adj.)(感到）…（修飾人）

eg. The news is really exciting , and everyone is excited . (excite)

2. more (many/much的比較級)

3. danger(n.) out of danger 脫離危險

in danger (of) 處于(…)危險中

4. go skiing 去滑雪

5. be popular with 受…歡迎

6. safety (n.)

Step Four To describe the pictures with the given words (Activity Two)

Gymnastics ---- difficult Gymnastics is difficult. (Picture a-3)

Table tennis ---- popular Table tennis is popular. (Picture b-1)

Basketball ------ exciting Basketball is exciting. (Picture c---2)

Running ------ cheap Running is cheap. (Picture d---5)

Cycling ---- tiring Cycling is tiring. (Picture e---4)

Skiing ---- dangerous Skiing is dangerous. (Picture f--- 6)

Step Five Opposite opinions learning

1. To remember the words quickly

正 反

popular 流行的 unpopular 不流行的

difficult 難的 easy 容易的

cheap 便宜的 expensive 昂貴的

exciting 激動人心的 boring 乏味的

tiring 累人的 relaxing 令人放松的

dangerous 危險的 safe 安全的

2. To match the words in Box1 with the opposite words in Box2. (Activity three)

3. To listen and repeat the sentences in Activities2 and 3. (Activity Six)

Step Six Listening and reading

1. Students answer the questions before listening.

1). What do you know about Olympic sport?

2). What sports are we Chinese good at? (We are good at gymnastics and table tennis.)

3). What Olympic sport do you like? Why?

2. Students listen and check the true sentences. (Activity Four)

1). Chinese people are good at gymnastics, but we aren’t good at table tennis. (×)

2). Daming thinks that table tennis is more popular than gymnastics. (√)

3). Betty’s favourite sport is basketball. (×)

4). Daming thinks that running is more boring than basketball. (×)

5). Betty thinks that skiing is more dangerous than running and cycling. (√)

3. Students listen again and check the sports they like. (Activity five)

Gymnastics Basketball Running Cycling

Daming √ √ √

Betty √ √

4. Language Points

1）. Chinese people are very good at gymnastics. 中國人非常擅長體操。

be good at sth. / doing sth. 擅長做某事

e.g. Tony is good at English.

Maggie is good at playing the piano.

2） 當表達多音節形容詞的比較級時，由more + adj. + than + 比較的對象構成。

Eg. Table tennis is more popular than gymnastics.

Running is more boring than basketball.

Cycling is more relaxing than running.

Ex. (1)我認為這個問題比那個難。

I think this problem is _________________ than that one.

(2).在中國，乒乓球比足球受歡迎。

Table tennis is ________________ football in China.

(3). 籃球比跑步更讓人激動嗎？

______ basketball __________ than running?

(4). 體操和滑雪，哪一個更放松？

Which is ____________, gymnastics or skiing?

Homework:

1. To preview some points: it + be +adj.+for sb. + to do sth. ; leave for; arrive at, get to, reach; more than; need to; take sb. around; until

2. To make a dialogue talking about the sports you like

3. To finish Unit1 Module6, 典中點