必修二（Unit2 The Olympic Games--Period1 Reading）.docVIP

Period 1 Reading The General Idea of This Period： This period includes Warming up，Reading and Comprehending of Unit 2.It introduces the similarities and differences between ancient and modern Olympic Games in the form of a interesting interview between Pausanias，a Greek writer 2000 years ago and Lily，a Chinese girl living at the present time.Reading the passage，the students can learn some reading strategies such as skimming and comparing. Teaching Aims： 1.Enable the students to compare the ancient Olympics with the modern ones and try to answer the questions quickly and correctly so that they learn how to generalize and compare the similarities and differences. 2.Learn some useful words and expressions：medal，gymnasium，stadium，admit，take part in，replace，prize，a set of，interview，as well as，compete with/against/for，replace，etc. 3.Learn some sentence patterns： （1）I lived what you called“Ancient Greece”. （2）I have come to your time to find out about the present day Olympic Games because I know they are to be held in my hometown of Athens. Teaching Important Points： 1.Help he students to compare the ancient Olympics with the modern ones and have a clear idea of their similarities and differences. 2.Learn and master some important words，phrases and sentence patterns in this period. Teaching Difficult Points： 1.How to find the implied similarities and differences by understanding the speaker’s words and intonation. 2.To master the important language points and sentence patterns in this passage. Teaching Methods： 1.Skimming to get the general idea of the text. 2.Scanning to get detailed information and get to understand the passage better. 3.Task-based methods to get the students to comprehend the passage and be able to produce dialogues and talk about their preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games. Teaching Aids： A tape recorder. A multimedia. Teaching Procedures： Step 1 Lead-in 1.Greet the students. T：Good morning/afternoon，boys and girls! Ss：Good morning/afternoon，Miss