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-20xx.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 20xx Olympics Sydney Australia
Host city of 20xx Olympics Athens Greece
Host city of 20xx 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
