Teaching Objectives:

　　1. Grasp the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs as well as the past tense.

　　2. Learn the words and expressions of sports meeting.

　　Language Focus:

　　hold/have a sports meeting   do well   hold—held hurt—hurt   fast faster fastest

　　well/good better best  high higher highest  far farther farthest

　　Properties: Tape-recorder, Overhead projector and some pictures of sports

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　I. Revision

　　Revise the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs.

　　Ask three tall students to stand up or show pictures like this.

　　Mr. Read is tall.

　　Mr. King is taller.

　　Mr. Green is the tallest of the three.

　　The bike is going fast. 

　　The tractor is going faster. 

　　The taxi is going the fastest.

　　Revise the comparative form –er/-est.

　　II. Leading-in

　　Ask the students the following questions:

　　1) Does your school hold a sports meeting every year?

　　2) Do you take part in it? Which sport can you do well in?

　　3) How many sports are there at the sports meeting?

　　Help the students to answer 100-metre race, 400-metre race, 800-metre race, long jump and high jump.

　　III. Presentation

　　Teach new words and phrases about sports.

　　利用图片或照片及学生用书彩色插页ⅲ上的插图，介绍并教学关于运动的词语。

　　IV. Read and learn

　　1．借助下面图表，引出本课教学内容：

The gilrs’ 100-metre race

Han Meimei

16"7

Lucy

16"2

Wu Dong

15"4

　　Play the tape of this part and ask the students to answer the questions.

　　2．教师在黑板上列出下表：

The boys' high jump

Lin Tao

1.59 m

Bill

1.64m

Zhang Jun

1.77m

　　Play the tape of this part and ask the students to answer the questions.

　　3．教师在黑板上列出人名与跳远成绩，但要打乱顺序，由学生听录音后，将人名与成绩划线连接。举例如下：

　　Ann　4.05m　　Liu Mei　3.8m　　Huifang　4. 0m

　　录音放两遍，学生划线连接，并回答录音中提出的问题。

　　4. Play the tape again and ask them to answer the following questions:

　　1) Who was first/second/third in the 100-metre race?

　　2) Who won the race?

　　3) Who was first/second/third in the high jump?

　　4) Who won?

　　5) Who was first/second/third in the long jump?

　　6) Who won?

　　5. Explain the language points.

　　1) hold/have a sports meeting hold( held, held)

　　①Our school held a sports meeting successfully last Sunday.

　　2) do well in do badly in

　　①Bob does better in maths than I, but he doesn’t do so well as I in English.

　　②Lucy did badly in the last physics exam. But Mary did even worse.

　　③Did Tom do well or badly in the sports meeting?

　　6. Summarize the usage of the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs.（有条件的可通过多媒体进行讲解或是利用资源库中的相关动画或视频讲解）

　　V. Practise

　　Ask the students to make sentences, using the past tense verbs and the comparative and superlative degree forms of adverbs.

　　VI. Read and act

　　1. Read the dialogue after the tape. Or play the video.

　　Explain the sentence: Which sport are you in today?

　　It means Which sport are you taking part in today?

　　2. Recite the dialogue, changing with the words in the box.

　　VII. Exercises in class

　　单项选择

　　1. Who can jump _________, you or he?

　　A. high　　B. tallest　　C. higher　　D. taller

　　2. The Changjiang River is one of________ rivers in the world.

　　A. long　　B. the longer　　C. the longest　　D. the long

　　3. They ________ the game yesterday, didn’t they?

　　A. won　　B .gave　　C .took　　D. got

　　4. Jane is ________ of the three. She can’t go to school by herself.

　　A. young　　B. younger　　C. youngest　　D. the youngest

　　5. History is as _________ as geography, you see.

　　A. important　　　　　B .more important

　　C. such important　　　D. so important

　　6. China is _________ than any other country in Asia.

　　A. larger　　B. the largest　　C. large　　D. more large

　　7. Which subject do you ________, maths or chemistry?

　　A .like best　　　　　　B .to like

　　C. very much like　　　　D. like better

　　8. Xiao Li did quite _________ in maths, but _________ in English.

　　A. well, badly　　B. good, bad　　C. bad, well　　D. badly, good

　　Keys: 1.C　2.C　3.A　4.D　5.A　6.A　7.D　8.A

　　VIII. Homework

　　1. Finish exercises on page 103.

　　2. Rewrite the passage.

　　VI. Summary

　　让学生归纳出本课有关运动会项目用语。

　　用动词正确时态填空。

　　Last week No. 14 Middle School _________ (hold) a sports meeting on the playground. Lily _________(run) fastest of all in the 100-metTe race. Zhang Jun _________(do) best of all in the high jump and Liu Mei _________ (jump) farthest of all in the long jump. Ling Li ________ (fall) and ________(hurt)his neck, so he _________(do)take part in any sport. Now he ________(be) much better.

　　Keys: held, ran, did Jumped, fell, hurt, didn’t, is

　　VIII. Writing on blackboard

Lesson 85

1. Language points

(1) hold/have a sport meeting