牛津译林版高中英语必修四《Unit 2 Sporting events》Reading 教案 1

牛津译林版高中英语必修四
Unit 2 Reading
Teaching Aims:
1.Enhance students’ reading abilities.
2.Enable Ss to adopt the strategy reading a speech and catch the main idea of the text.
Teaching important points:
1.Help Ss know some background knowledge about the history and the development of the Olympic Games.
2.Help them learn some language points.
Teaching methods:
1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension.
1.Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt.
2.Discussion to make every student work in class.
Teaching aids:
1.the multi-media
2.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. Where were the ancient Olympic Games held?
At Olympia in Greece.
3. Who restarted the modern Olympic Games? Pierre de Coubertin
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). In the past, only athletes that spoke Italian were allowed to compete.Greek
4). The aim of the modern Olympic Games is to make countries and people compete side by side. live peacefully
5). The first modern Olympic Games were held in Rome in 1896. Athens
6). Deng Yaping won four Olympic gold medals for tennis. table tennis
2. Try to fill in the form according to the passage.
Answers:
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3. Finish exercise D and E.
1.Do D in class.
2.Do E in class
Answers:
D 1 a 2 c 3 e 4 f 5 d 6 b
E (1) significance (2) ancient (3) complete (4) peacefully (5)
athletes (6) achievement (7) gold medal (8) mentioned Step 4. Discussion
1. Do you think Chinese athletes such as DengYaping and LiuXiang are as great as Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan? Why?
2. In our life, we often hear Sports Spirit. What kind of Sports Spirit can you learn from them? And how can you use the sports spirit in your studies?
Step 5 Language points
1. (L1) delighted adj. 高兴的; 欣喜的
1) He was delighted to be invited to the wedding.
2) I am delighted at your progress made in studies.
2.(L2) significance n.意义; 意味; 重要性
1) It’s good that he has realized the significance of studying English.
2) You should pay more attention to the significance of the speech delivered by our headmaster.
significant adj.有意义的;重要的
3.(L10) compete vi.竞争,对抗
Compete with/against sb for sth
1) Several dogs are competing with/against each other for a bone.
2) Companies are competing against each other for the contract.
competition n.竞争;比赛
competitor n. 竞争者;选手
4.(L11) in honor of sb 为了纪念;向…表示敬意
The ceremony was held in honor of
those killed in the battle
honor sb with sth 给某人以荣耀
1) Will you honor me with a visit?
2) It’s an honor to be invited to the party.
5. (L15) ,no matter what language they speak.
The phase no matter what means “whatever the situation is, something is always true” and used to introduce an adverbial clause. Similar phrases such as no matter how, no matter whether and no matter when can be used in the same way.
e.g. No matter what difficulty she meets with, she will never give up.
No matter how I tried to persuade him, he j ust didn’t take my words seriously.
No matter whether it is rainy or sunny, the football match will be played as planned.
6.(L37) record n.记录记载,唱片
keep/break/set a record 保持/打破/创造一个记录
He holds the world record in the 100 metres.
7.(L39) contribution n.贡献
make contributions to (doing) sth
为……做贡献
1)He made contributions to the film
industry.
2) I am determined to make
contributions to developing our
country.
contribute vt.捐献, 捐助; 投稿
Contributed two stories to the summer issue.
contribute to…
起一份作用, 有助于,促成
Exercise contributes to better health.
8. (L41) absence n. 缺席, 缺乏
presence n.出席, 到场
He made up an excuse for his absence from the meeting.
absent adj. 不在场, 缺乏的
be present at 出席be absent from 缺席
Several workers were absent from the meeting yesterday.
Step 6 Have a try:
1. He tried his best to solve the problem,_____ difficult it was.
A.however
B. no matter
C.
whatever D. although
2. Everyone gave five pence as a contribution _____ the Famine Relief Fund.
A. at
B. on
C. to
D. over
3. The president honored us _______ a personal visit.
A.t0
B. with
C. for
D. of
4. We are in ________ with four other companies for the contract.
peting
B. competitor
C. competition
D. companion
5._______ were the manager and his wife, as well as their son.
A.Presented
B. To present
C. Present
D. Presence
6. The laboratory was named after the science _______ him.
A. in spite of
B. in case of
C. in terms of
D. in honor of
Step 7 Homework
1. Try to remember the useful words, phrases and sentence patterns and know how to use them freely.
2. Finish exercises in Workbook.。