Unit Seven Athletes.pptVIP

Unit Seven Athletes Preparation Listening-Centered Activities Reading-Centered Activities Talking about sports and athletes Directions: The class is divided into five groups. Each group is re-quired to deal with one category and all its members are encou-raged to work together to list as many items as possible on the blackboard. Guess who is my favorite athlete Ye Zhaoying Chinese; female; an excellent badminton player; the best in the world; won the world championship twice, in 1995 and 1997; winner of the championship of women single badminton series match in 1997; winner of the championship of women single of 1998 Singapore badminton open match. Ronaldo Brazilian; football player; a good goal scorer; was elected as Football’s player of the year in 1996 and 1997; played on the Brazilian team in the 1998 World Cup, bat his team was only placed second; has been called “the next Pele” in Brazil. Listening one: Exercise I. You will hear three people (Ted, Mike, and Lisa) talking about their favorite sports. Listen carefully and work in pairs to decide which of the following sports each of them plays and how long he/ she has been playing it. Exercise II: listen again and decide which of the following descriptions matches which sport. Check the answers with your partner. Listening two:Exercise I： listen to the short talk, and then discuss the following questions in pairs. During the thirties and forties, who did children regard as their role modals? What is the situation now? Baseball players. Kids look for role models in other fields. Why did players play baseball in the thirties and forties? Did they make a lot of money? They liked it. No. What is the speaker’s general impression of today’s baseball players? Does he admire them? Why or why not? He doesn’t think players now are as good as those in the past. No. because he thinks they are too selfish, and care too much about money. According to the speaker, what could today’s baseball players do to make baseball