Teaching Plan for Unit 8 Sports
Teaching aims and demands
类别 课程标准要求掌握的项目
话题 1． Talk about sports
2． Talk about interests and hobbies
3． Talk about the Olympics
4． Write a sports star’s profile
功能 Interests and hobbies
Which do you like…or …?
What’s your favorite sport?
Which sport do you like best?
Which do you prefer…or…?
What about…?
Are you interested in…?
词汇 continent well-known athlete gold medal torch badminton tie final dive shooting
Greece competitor motto further rank gymnastics prepare preparation effect flame
compete flag weight position superstar point skill weigh title gesture facial
stand for because of speed skating track and field take part
in preparation for
语法 Future Passive Voice
The people of Beijing will plant more trees and build new roads.(陈述句)
More trees will be planted and new roads will be built by the people of Beijing.
Beijing will hold the 29th Olympic Games in the year 2008.（疑问句）
When will the 29th Olympic Games be held in Beijing.

Period Arrangements:
warming up reading materials

Period 1 listening Period 2,3

speaking language focus
listening (WB) complementary listening material
speaking
Period 4 speaking Period 5 complementary reading material
writing(WB)
integrating skill(writing) assessment
Teaching Procedures of Period 1:
Step1.Warming up (15 mins)
Ss know a lot about sports from everyday life and media, so I arrange such a task -discussion(group of 4):
Q: What do you know about sports?
During this process, if Ss can’t express themselves in English, Chinese is also all right. Besides, it is a
good chance to present new words. If necessary, I will make some complements. At the same time, I will present them as many pictures about sports as possible.
Possible response:
school sports meet
Sports meet the National Games
the Asian Games
the Olympic Games
the World Cup
etc

ball games: volleyball, basket ball, football, table tennis, tennis, ,golf
badminton, bowling, baseball, American football, ice hockey etc
Events of sports track and field: relay race, long jump, high jump, pole jump, discus, shot, javelin etc
gymnastic: rings, double bars, high and low bars, horse , free exercise

swimming/shooting/skiing/ ice sports/diving/aquatic sports etc

Sport stars : Beckham, Mike Owen, Michael Jordan etc
Purpose: This activity is designed to encourage students to think about sports and activate
relevant vocabulary.

Step 2. Speaking(15 mins)
Task1(pair work): Talk about their favourite sports, favourite sports stars, and the reason why they like them, with the following expressions as a guide.(See SB p52)
Task2(pair work): A survey about physical fitness (See postscript 1)

Task3(group work): Add up their total scores and divide by the number of people. Then get their group’s average scores. Discuss their survey answers.
1). Do you think your group is doing well or not? Why ?
2). How can you become fitter?
Purpose: The students will use the information from the above step to talk about their interests and hobbies and to practise giving reasons for their opinions.
Step 3. Listening (15 mins)
Task 1: Brainstorming(encourage Ss to tell me as many words about that as possible)

Purpose: to work as a guide of listening part.

Task 2: Listen to three sports reports and fill in the missing information
Purpose: In this activity, the students will hear three sports reports about basketball, football table tennis. It is what they are interested in and to learn to understand sports news report.
Step 4. Homework Assignment
Task: Find out some background information about the Olympics. T will offer them some websites as well:
www.olympic.org www.specialolympics.org/
www.athens.olympics.org/ www.beijing-2008.org
Purpose: This activity is related to the reading material of next period. To encourage Ss to find out the information by themselves.
Teaching procedures of period 2
Step1. Lead-in(10 mins)
Task 1. Collect the information Ss have found, and this is a good chance to present new words. If necessary, warming up Ex can work as a guide. At the same time T will display some relevant pictures.

Five rings Aisa Europe Africa America Oceania
IOC International Olympic committee
Headquater Lausanne Switzerland
Motto swifter higher stronger
Present President Jac ques Rogge
Official language English French Spanish Russian German
Host city of 2000 Olympics Sydney Australia
Host city of 2004 Olympics Athens Greece
Host city of 2008 Olympics Beijing China
Host city of the first Olympics Athens Greece
Sort Winter Olympics Summer Olympics

Purpose: to help Ss get as much background knowledge about the Olympics as possible

Task 2.Group work to discuss any of following questions:
1).Why do so many athletes want to take part in the Olympic Games?
2).Are the Olympic Games important to our society? Why or why not?
Purpose: the activity is designed to get Ss to think about the Olympics as a preliminary activity related to the reading material.
Step2. Reading(10 mins)
Task1.Skimming to find out what is the reading material going to talk about.
Possible answer: the Olympics
Task2. Scanning to find the topic words

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