高二英语sporting events reading.pptVIP

Unit 2 Reading Teaching Aims: 1. 2. Enhance students’ reading abilities. Enable Ss to adopt the strategy reading a speech and catch themain idea of the text. Teaching important points: 1. 2. Help Ss know somebackground knowledgeabout the history and the development of theOlympic Games. Help them learn somelanguage points. Teaching methods: 1. 1. 2. Improvethe students’ reading comprehension. Practiceto get the students to master what they’velearnt. Discussion to make every student work in class. Teaching aids: 1. 2. themulti-media theblackboard. Teaching procedures: Step1. Lead- in 1. Show pictures about Olympic Games to motivate theSs’ enthusiasm. 2.Talk about the Olympics and encouragethestudents to sharetheir information and express their opinions. As weall know, theOlympic Games are held every four years and it is agreat honor for a country to host theGames. How much do you know about theOlympics, for example, its history, ceremonies and sporting events? 1. How many Olympic games did you see? Where werethey held? 2. Do you think they are exciting? 3. Who is your favorite athlete and who do you think is the greatest Olympian? Why? Step2. Fast reading Ask Ss to scan thearticle and answer the three questions in Part A. 1. What is thespeech about? Thehistory and significance of theOlympic Games. 2. Where weretheancient Olympic Games held? At Olympia in Greece. 3. Who restarted themodern Olympic Games? Pierre de Coubertin Step3 Careful reading 1.Read thepassageagain and check theerrors in each sentence. 1)According to thespeech, thespeaker is an athlete . an LOC member 2). Thefirst ancient Olympic Games wereheld in AD776. 776BC 3). In thepast, only athletes that spoke Italian wereallowed to compete. Greek 4). Theaim of themodern Olympic Games is to make countries and people compete side by side. live peacefully 5). Thefirst modern Olympic Games wereheld in Rome in 1896. Athens tabletennis 6). Deng Yaping won