Teaching aims:

1. Talk about sports

2. Talk about the Olympic Games

3. Talk about interests and hobbies

4. Write a sports star’s profile

5. Improve the student’s listening ability by listening to some materials.

6. Master the useful expressions by using them in the dialogues, meanwhile educate the students to love sports so that they can be healthier and stronger.

Teaching important point:

How to express one’s ideas freely, using the expressions in the text.

Teaching difficult point:

How to improve the students’ listening ability.

Teaching methods:

1. Talking method to enable the students to express themselves freely.

2. Listening method to improve the students’ listening ability.

Teaching aids:

1. a recorder

2. some slides

3. ppt. Files

Teaching procedures:

Step 1: Greeting and revision

Step 2: warming up

We all know that the famous sports meeting, which will be held in Beijing in 2008.

How much do you know about it?

Please talk about the Olympic games with your desk mates and then we will have some questions about it.

1.In what year were the Olympic games first held?

A. 1896 B. 1906 C. 776BC

2. When and where were the first modern Olympic Games held?

A.1986, Sydney B.1896, Athens C.1698, New York

3. What do the five Olympic rings stand for?

A. Five continents B. Five well-known athletes

C. five important events

4. How many gold medals did China win in the 2000 Olympic Games?

A. 16 B. 28 C. 36

5. How many times have the Olympic Games been stopped because of war?

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5

6.In which year was the first Olympic Torch Relay?

A. 1928 B. 1936 C. 1896

7. When did baseball become an Olympic sport?

A. 1972 B. 1992 C. 1976

8. Match the year and the host city of the following Summer Olympic Games?

1984 Sydney

2000 Athens

2004 Beijing

2008 Los Angeles

Step 3: Enjoy some pictures

Try to think as many sports names as you can, and write down them on your paper.

Events of sports:

Ball games: volleyball, basketball, football, table tennis, tennis, golf, badminton, bowling, baseball, , ice hockey etc.

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.

[Gymnastics: horizontal bar(單杠); parallel bars(雙杠); uneven bars(高低杠); free exercises(自由體操) ; pommel horse(鞍馬)

Track and Field: high jump; long jump; marathon; 4×100m relay; shot put(推鉛球); javelin throw(擲標槍); discus throw(擲鐵餅); swimming; wrestling; boxing; diving; surfing; weightlifting; shooting; judo; wushu; cycling; skating; badminton; speed skating skiing; mountaineering(登山); canoeing(賽艇); fencing(劍術); water-skiing(水橇滑水); basket ball; soccer; tennis; table tennis; Chinese chess; weiqi; chess]

Step 4: Speaking

Practice oral English about sports by using these expressions:

So many kinds of sports here. Which one is your favorite?

Let have an interview show by asking your partner following questions:

Name?

Which sports do you like best?

Why?

Some useful expressions:

Asking about interests and hobbies

Which do you like, … or…?

What’s your favorite sport?

Which sports do you like best?

Which do you prefer,… or…?

What about …?

Are you interested in …?

Possible answers

Sure. I love sports.

Yes, very much. / No, not really.

Shooting, I think.

I like … best.

I prefer … to …I like watching it.

I’d rather watch it than play it.

Step 5.Listening:

Let’s see what happened in sports today. How about taking a look at the NBA?

1. The Los Angeles Lakers won against the Miami Heat. The Lakers scored 20 points in the last quarter, beating the Heat 101--96.

2. And here are the results of today’s soccer league Games. Manchester United came back from one goal behind to tie Leeds 2-2 in Wednesday’s game. Leeds scored their first goal after only ten minutes. It looked like Leeds would win when they took a 2-1lead in the second half, but Manchester scored their second goal with five minutes left. Manchester is now two wins away from their third title.

3. The masters of their game once again showed that they can not be stopped. China won against Russia in Saturday’s table tennis match. The Chinese Team won the two first singles matches 3-1 and 3-0, while the Russians won the doubles match. China did not give up, but won the singles match. The win in the last singles match gave them a final win of 3-1. China has not lost any matches this year and it doesn't look like any team can beat them.

Step 6.Integrating skills

Fast reading:

Q1. What does Yao Ming do?

Q2. Why is he so famous?

Detail Reading:

Fill a blank of yaoming’s profile

Step 7. Homework:

Write sports star’s profile

When and where was he/she born?

How tall is he/she?

How much does he/she weigh?

What make him/her great in your eyes?

Do you know some interesting story about him/her?