7. Name of the sport: Fencing
Description: It is a sport of fighting with each of the two players holding a long distant sword and it is played indoors. Both the two players wear a mask.
8. Name of the sport: Weightlifting
Description: The players in the sport lift very heavy metal in round shape, which are connected by a long straight stick; usually the weightlifting players have very strong muscles,
9. Name of the sport: Shooting:
Description: In this sport, the players shoot with a gun at an object and the player who gets the highest mark will get a prize. Chinese player Wang Yifu once did a very good job in the shooting competition in the Athens Olympic Games. The players of this sport are supposed to have excellent eyesight. It is the sport in which Chinese player Xu Haifeng won the first gold medal for China in the history.
10. Name of the sport: Table tennis
Description: It is the national sport of China and there have always been a great number of excellent players in this sport. Some players even went to teach foreign players such as European and Korean players. This sport even played a very important role in Chinese and American diplomatic relationship.
11. Name of the sport: Swimming
Description: When you are playing the sport, you should move yourself through the water by using your arms, legs and so on. The sport has different types. Sometimes you move like a frog, while sometimes you move like a butterfly. Chinese player Luo Xuejuan once won the gold medal of the sport for China in the Olympic Games.
→Step 4 Explanations of some other sports
Considering there are some types of sports that students are not familiar with or even know little about, the teacher can show the pictures of these sports and explain the detail to them so that they can understand the sports and keep their names in heart.
1. Hockey (曲棍球)
It is a game played on the grass or ice by two teams of 11 players, with a stick or a ball. It contains ice hockey and field hockey.
2. Diving (跳水)
It is an activity of jumping into the water with your head and arm first. China has excellent players in the sport such as Tian Liang and Fu Mingxia. Chinese players always do very well in the sport because Chinese players are generally smaller in shape than those from western countries.
3. Squash (软式壁球)
It is a game played by two people who use rackets to hit a small rubber ball against the walls of a square court.
4. Equestrian (马术)
You are riding a horse when playing the sport. It has its own grace and rhythm and you should know the temper of the horse you are riding to play it well. Different horses have different personalities.
→Step 5 Reading and speaking Activity 1:
Ask the students to read Part A—Zhou Lin’s letter on page 46 quickly in the text book and find out all the words related to sports. (archery 剑术, gymnastics体操, martial arts 武术, folk dancing 民间舞蹈, skating 滑冰, baseball棒球, softball垒球) And then try to summarize the clubs Zhou Lin has discussed in her diary. The teacher can ask the students what specific things students are required or allowed to do in each of the clubs or what kind of sports club they would like to join.
Possible answers:
1. There is a gymnastics club in our school. There are many kinds of equipment in a gym club. Students can choose whichever they like and do many types of sports to keep fit. Sometimes there are teachers or experienced students in Grade two or Grade three giving some help if you don’t know how to use the equipment.
2. Basketball is my favorite. So without doubt I will join the basketball club. Both outdoor and indoor basketball courts are very good. So I will play basketball outside when it is sunny. I think sweating in the sunshine is really a great pleasure. Also, it is always very exciting to work together with my partners to get the scores. I like the sense of achievement after my team wins. If it is rainy, I can play basketball inside, which is interesting too.
Activity 2:
Ask the students to focus on Part C on page 47, which is a letter from Zhou Lin to Amy. Ask the students to finish it individually first. And then conduct a feedback activity. Or the teacher can design the following questions to check the students’ understanding of the letter.
What does Zhou Lin suggest Amy doing after she gets out of the hospital? Activity 3:
Ask the students to do Part D on page 105 in the workbook, so they can not only practice using some of the words in the unit but also gain knowledge of another sport, jogging, which can help people to stay healthy.
In addition, the teacher can design the following questions to check the students’ understanding.
1. What kind of sport is jogging?
2. Why is jogging so popular? In other words, what are the advantages of jogging?
3. If you decide to start jogging, what should you prepare? Suggested answers:
1. Jogging means running slowly for a long way.
2. More and more people take up jogging because it is such a good form of exercise that it can help you to make your heart strong and control your weight. If you keep jogging regularly, you can stay slim without taking weight-loss pills or skipping meals.
3. Jogging doesn’t cost much and what you need is only a comfortable pair of shoes especially made for jogging.
→Step 6 Pair work Activity 1
: Ask the students to discuss in pairs what good they think different sports do to their bodies and fill in the blanks of a list of sports. Ask them to write 1 (a little) to 3 (a lot) for energy level. Write one tick √(a little), two ticks√√, or three ticks (√√√)for how strong and flexible they make you. Sports 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 How much energy do you need? Does it make you: strong Fishing and flexible? √ √√ √ √ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √ √√ √√√ √ √ √√√ √√√ √ √√ Table tennis Badminton Walking Running Swimming Basketball Climbing Rope skipping Sit-up
Activity 2:
Up till now, by means of different activities, students have known a number of sports. It is time for them to make a summary. Let students discuss with each other about the indoor and outdoor sports and complete C on page 47 putting the names of the following sports into the correct column. (boxing, beach volleyball, judo(柔道), gymnastics, skiing, baseball) Encourage the students to add some more into each category.
(The task can be made more challenging by asking the students to choose one or two indoor or outdoor sports, which are listed on the blackboard and make a description of them to let others guess. The game is similar to what they have done in guessing the names of the sports above. ) Indoors Boxing Fencing Gymnastics Squash Bowling (保龄球) Weightlifting Table tennis Outdoors Beach volleyball Skiing Baseball Rugby Football Track and field Running Aerobics Diving Judo(柔道) . . . Hurdle Tennis . . . . . . Activity 3:Suppose you are a journalist from Wuxi Daily and you want to write a report on teenagers’ problems in losing weight. So you plan to have an interview with Amy. Before the interview, you have already known Amy’s experiences of losing weight. But there is something else you want to know about Amy, for example, what was her feeling when she was told that the harmful chemicals contained in the weight-loss pills had caused her liver to fail, whether she will try to lose weight again in the future or not, if she will, what she will do, and since there are many teenagers, especially girls, who want to lose weight like Amy, what kind of advice Amy can give to them.
Ask the students to work in pairs and do an interview. One is Amy and the other one is a Wuxi Daily journalist.
→Step 7 Homework
Review the vocabulary we have learned and describe one of the sports.
板书设计
Vocabulary related to sports Explanations of some other sports 1. Hockey 2. Diving . . . . . .