Period 4 Word power
整体设计
教材分析
Word power in this unit focuses on types of sports with relevant exercises designed to expand students’ vocabulary related to sports. The text intends to help the students get familiar with or even master the names of various sports by means of reading, and blank filling. The students who are expected to learn this part are all teenagers around 17 or 18 years old. There is no doubt that they really have great interest in sports and some of them even do very well in sports. In this sense, the topic of sports in the Word power must be appealing to them, which may arouse their interest in learning the names of all kinds of sports, especially for those boys who don’t like to remember English words.
三维目标
1. Enlarge students’ vocabulary related to sports and help them to develop a good habit of remembering English words in some category.
2. Enable the students to learn to talk about something they know about sports.
3. Encourage the students to learn the following new words by heart: badminton, boxing, squash, basketball, tennis, shooting, volleyball, football, weightlifting, aerobics, fencing, triathlon
4. Learn some useful expressions and sentence structures 1)I don’t know which sport to choose. 2)It may be fun. /It sounds fun.
3)build up your strength/build your strength up 重点难点
1. Help the students talk about sports and learn some new words. 2. Help the students remember some new names of sports.
3. Help the students realize the fact that doing exercise is an effective way to lose weight and keep fit.
教学方法
1. Discussion in pairs or in groups. 2. Task-based in-class activities.
3. Explanations of some language points. 教具准备
A tape recorder and a multimedia room.
课前准备
1. Ask the students to prepare for a presentation concerning the following topic for about two or three minutes.
Topic: Suppose you have an opportunity to watch a competition on the spot in the 29th Olympic Games to be held in Beijing, what kind of sports would you like to choose?
This topic is closely related to students’ daily life and they must know something about it in which they will show great interest. This will be a good warm-up at the beginning of the class, which can help the students get involved in the in-class activities. If some students really find some difficulty in expressing their opinions clearly and fluently, the teacher can help them.
2. Encourage the students to search for some information concerning the sports in the Olympic Games. For example, the students can look for the information about the names of the sports, how they are played, the rules of the sports, how Chinese players do in the sports, whether
Chinese players have won any medal in the sports and so on. If time permits, the teacher can divide the whole class into several groups to carry out a discussion about which sports they like best and which sports they are good at.
教学过程
→Step 1 Lead-in
Activity 1: As is known to all, the 29th Olympic Games will be held in Beijing in 2008, which is a great concern for most Senior High school students. It is possible for students to give a successful presentation on the topic. So, the teacher should encourage the students to volunteer to make a free-talk in front the whole class about their favorite sports in the Olympic Games. After one student finishes his or her free-talk, the teacher can give some comments or raise some questions.
Possible answers:
1. Every time I watch the sports game, I would like to choose to see the figure skating. With the beautiful music, the figure skater plays elegant ice-skating. It is really an enjoyment to watch the figure skating, which is a mixture of sports and art.
2. From my point of view, I think the men’s 110-meter hurdle competition is most exciting and I want to watch the whole process of Liu Xiang winning the first for myself. I hope he could become the winner of men’s 110-meter hurdles again. All people throughout China take pride in him and I am sure he will succeed again.
Activity 2: There are many different ways to lose weight. The most important thing is that you have to burn more calories than you consume. Simply eating less is not always the best way to lose weight. A better way is to take regular exercise every day. In this unit, Word power deals with words and expressions related to types of sports. Students are expected to not only expand related vocabulary but also apply them practically. Present such questions as follows on the blackboard:
Are you interested in sports?
1. What kind of sports are you particularly fond of?
2. If you want to lose weight, which kind of sports would you like to take part in? 3. Have you ever joined one of them? If not, are you planning to join one? Possible answers:
1. I like playing basketball. It makes me feel strong and confident. During the competition, I can fly all over the playground and I can learn how to cooperate with other players in the team.
2. I think I am a little bit overweight. And I would like to play aerobics to keep figure. It is very interesting and I feel very relaxed after sweating heavily in the gym.
3. I don’t like to do sports but I want to try some in the future. (If the multimedia is available, this design is recommended. )
Show parts of the video of Chinese sport player competing in the Olympic games. Or some pictures can also be used.
Triathlon
running
swimming
Football
badminton
Tennis
boxing
javelin volleyball golf
And then ask the students to describe some of the scenes in the video or some of the pictures about the game competition.
Possible answers:
1. Triathlon refers to long-distance bicycling, running and swimming.
2. Football is one of the most popular games in the world. And my favorite football player is Beckham. He is amazing and he is my idol.
3. Tennis is the sport that I like most.
4. I would like to watch the badminton competition. Sun Ting and Li Tiantian did a very good job in Athens Olympic Games in 2004. They won a gold medal in the women double.
→Step 2 Brainstorming
Encourage the students to think of as many names of sports as possible. (Let the students close their books and present all the sports names they know on the blackboard. )
The following are the suggested answers:
Archery, gymnastics, martial arts, folk dancing, skating, baseball, softball, volleyball, triathlon, fencing, weightlifting, hokey (曲棍球), squash (软式壁球), boxing (拳击), wrestling (摔跤), weightlifting (举重), sit up (仰卧起坐)
→Step 3 Activity: to guess the names of the sports
Let the students guess the names of some sports. The teacher can show the pictures of sports on the blackboard and then ask one student to describe the details of sport and after the
explanation, ask another to name the sport. The teacher can ask the student to go to the front of the class and stand with his or her back facing the picture on the blackboard. Before the game starts, the teacher can give some clues and make it clear to the students that the one who is going to describe the sports can say something like: how many team members there are in the sport; how the sport is played; what its rules are; what instructions a new player has to pay attention to; whether there are some famous Chinese players who are good at the sport. (If possible, the teacher can present these questions on the blackboard, which can help the students to describe the sport. ) When the student guesses the name of the sports, the teacher can give them a present. Usually, it is the boys who are greatly interested in sports and it has been proved that boys take part in the game more actively and successfully.
Sometimes the students may have some difficulty in describing the sports. If so, the teacher can give them some help. Students may also find it hard to figure out the names of the sports. In that case, the teacher should give them more opportunities to have a try.
To make the task easier, the teacher can help the students as follows:
1. Sometimes, the students can describe the sports but do not know the names. The teacher can write the names of the sports on the blackboard which he or she anticipates that the students don’t know, such as sit-up, aerobics(健美操), shooting (射击), Triathlon(铁人三项), Men’s 110 hurdle(跨栏), fencing (击剑).
2. If the picture of the sports is too hard for the students to describe, the teacher can describe himself or herself and all the students can have a try.
For example:
1. Name of the sport: Football
Description: a game played by two teams of eleven players who try to kick a round ball into the other team’s goal.
English people like this sport very much. Also millions of people around the world are crazy for it, especially when the World Cup is held every four years. It takes a lot of energy to play it well. It makes your legs and body very strong. Beckham is a world famous player of this sport.
2. Name of the sport: Sit-up
Description: When you do such exercise, you lie on your back on the floor and raise the top part of the body and in the end you will in a sitting. By means of doing this exercise you will build
3. Name of the sport: Aerobics
Description: It is a very active exercise, which can make your heart strong. When you do the sport, you follow the strong music with fast rhythm in a large room together with a lot of other people. Girls are usually interested in it. Sometimes there is glass around the room so that you can see your image in the glass.
4. Name of the sport: Triathlon
Description: It is a sporting event in which people compete in three different sports, including long-distance swimming,
cycling and running.
5. Name of the sport: Basketball
Description: a game played by two teams. Each team has five players and all the players work together to try to throw a large ball into a basket which is very high. The
Chinese player Yao Ming is now playing the sport in America.
6. Name of the sport: Men’s 110 hurdle:
Description: It belongs to the track and field, which is performed on a running field.
Liu Xiang got the gold medal in the sport in Athens Olympic Games in 2004. He has brought Chinese people great