2018年湖南省茶陵县高中英语 Unit 2 Sporting events Reading教案 牛津译林版必修4.docVIP

Unit 2 Sports events Reading The Olympic Games Teaching Aims: Enhance students’ reading abilities. Enable students to adopt the strategy reading a speech and catch the main idea of the text. Teaching Important Points: Help Ss know some background knowledge about the history and the development of the Olympic Games. Help them learn some language points. Teaching Methods: 1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension. Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt. Discussion to make every student work in class. Teaching aids: the multi-media the blackboard. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead- in 1. Show pictures about Olympic Games to motivate the Ss’ enthusiasm. 2. Talk about the Olympics and encourage the students to share their information and express their opinions. As we all know, the Olympic Games are held every four years and it is a great honor for a country to host the Games. How much do you know about the Olympics, for example, its history, ceremonies and sporting events? 1. How many Olympic games did you see? Where were they held? 2. Do you think they are exciting? 3. Who is your favorite athlete and who do you think is the greatest Olympian? Why? Step 2 Fast reading Ask Ss to scan the article and answer the three questions in Part A. 1. What is the speech about? The history and significance of the Olympic Games. 2. What was Pierre de Coubertin’s hope when he brought the Olympic Games back to life? He hoped that the Olympic Games would make it possible for people of all countries to live side by side in peace. 3. What does speaker wish for at the end of the speech? He wishes the Olympic Movement a successful future to match its past glory. Step 3 Careful reading 1. Read the passage again and check the errors in each sentence. 1) According to the speech, the speaker is an athlete. an LOC member 2). The first ancient Olympic Games were held in AD776. 776BC 3). Everyone was allowed to take part in the ancient Olympics. Onl