英语国家概况教案

Teaching plan

Teacher’s name：kathy

Date：November, 2007

Course：The Society Culture of Major English-Speaking Countries Subject：Chapter7：Sports in Britain

Teaching objective：

1.Students will consolidate their memorization of hot words and phrase.

2.Train the students’ ability to grasp key information while reading .

3.learn how to describe sports in Britain.Such as football、ccricket etc. Key points：

1.Football in Britain

2.Tennis and Wimbledom

3.Cricket is a most popular sport in Britain

4.two kinds of horse racing

5.the Grand National and the Royal Ascot

Approach and methodology:

task-based learning with multimedia

Teaching tools：a book、a multimedia projector and a blackboard

Contents:

Ⅰ:Greeting the class.

Ⅱ:Text presentation and language practise

1.Introduction.

2. Warning up and speaking.

---I should check if the students have mastered the new words and expressions

by making sentences.

---Talk about students’sports .Let students’desire to know more about British sports.

Ⅲ:interpret the passage.

Key points：

1. Football in Britain 足球运动

---Football was invented in Britain. It is a rough fast game played in winter and early spring. Legends hold that it derived from the “sport” of ancient warriors celebrating victory by kicking around the decapitated head of an enemy. Today, it is one of the most popular sports in Britain. Millions of people watch the FA Cup games. But in recent years, people are much concerned about football violence.

--- The FA Cup: is the trophy title for a series of games played by major member teams of the Football Association(足协). Over 20 million tickets are sold to FA games each season. And sometimes, supporters of rival teams clash violently before, during and after the matches.

*Note: football: (美) American football （美式足球）

(英) soccer(英式足球)

rugby(英式橄榄球)

football pitch/ ground/field （足球场）

2. Tennis 网球

--- Tennis: a more gentle sport played by people in early summer. It was invented in Britain and owes its origins to the church. As early as the mid-fifteenth century, people were playing a game called “tenys” around their local churches or cathedrals. The most famous tennis event in the world, the annual international tennis championships, takes place in Wimbledon every year. There are also a lot of social activities during the “Wimbledon fortnight”.

---Wimbledon(温布尔登):is a suburb in London. It is the place where the world’s best players gather to compete in the annual international tennis championship. It is one of the major events of the British sporting calendar and probably the most famous tennis event in the world. There are a lot of other social activities associated with “Wimbledon fortnight”, such as eating strawberries and cream, drinking champagne and hoping that it doesn’t rain.

* 网球场tennis court 网球球拍tennis racquet

3. Cricket 板球

--- Cricket: a most popular sport in summer. It was also one of the very first team sports in Britain to have organized rules and to be played according to the same rules nationally.(板球是英国最早有统一规则, 并且全国遵守同一规则进行比赛的罢休体育运动项目之一) As early as 1787, the rules were fixed. It is a quite distinctive sport in many ways—1) the players wear white trousers and appear quite formally dressed; 2) matches do not last just a few hours and they can go on for days— and has