一、 Teaching materials:
Unit1 Cycling is more dangerous than swimming.(Module6 The Olympic adventure)
二、 Targets for this period:
To understand conversations about sports
To process information of comparison concerning sports
To talk about the sports one likes using comparative forms
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary--basketball, cycling, gymnastics, running, skiing, table tennis, dangerous, safe, difficult, easy, exciting, boring, expensive, cheap, popular, relaxing
Key structures – more…than…
四、Teaching methods:
Task-based approach and interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Tape recorder, video, OHP, supplementary exercises
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Revision 根据提示完成句子。
1. Beijing/ Cambridge / big (Beijing is bigger than Cambridge.)
2. An elephant /a monkey /strong (An elephant is stronger than a monkey.)
3. Hong Kong / Dalian / busy (Hong Kong is busier than Dalian.)
4. London / Shanghai / cool / in summer (London is cooler than Shanghai in summer.)
5. Hong Kong / Beijing/ hot/ in summer? (Is Hong Kong hotter than Beijing in summer?)
6. Chang Jiang /the River Thames /wide? (Is Chang Jiang wider than the River Thames?)
Step Two New words and expressions learning
1. Students read after the tape
2. To correct some pronunciations
Step Three Language points
1. excite ------ exciting ------ excited
tire ------ tiring ------ tired
bore ------ boring ------ bored
relax ------ relaxing ------ relaxed
interest ------ interesting ------ interested
(v.) (使)… (adj.)令人/使人…(修饰物) (adj.)(感到）…（修饰人）
eg. The news is really exciting , and everyone is excited . (excite)
2. more (many/much的比较级)
3. danger(n.) out of danger 脱离危险
in danger (of) 处于(…)危险中
4. go skiing 去滑雪
5. be popular with 受…欢迎
6. safety (n.)
Step Four To describe the pictures with the given words (Activity Two)
Gymnastics ---- difficult Gymnastics is difficult. (Picture a-3)
Table tennis ---- popular Table tennis is popular. (Picture b-1)
Basketball ------ exciting Basketball is exciting. (Picture c---2)
Running ------ cheap Running is cheap. (Picture d---5)
Cycling ---- tiring Cycling is tiring. (Picture e---4)
Skiing ---- dangerous Skiing is dangerous. (Picture f--- 6)
Step Five Opposite opinions learning
1. To remember the words quickly
正 反
popular 流行的 unpopular 不流行的
difficult 难的 easy 容易的
cheap 便宜的 expensive 昂贵的
exciting 激动人心的 boring 乏味的
tiring 累人的 relaxing 令人放松的
dangerous 危险的 safe 安全的
2. To match the words in Box1 with the opposite words in Box2. (Activity three)
3. To listen and repeat the sentences in Activities2 and 3. (Activity Six)
Step Six Listening and reading
1. Students answer the questions before listening.
1). What do you know about Olympic sport?
2). What sports are we Chinese good at? (We are good at gymnastics and table tennis.)
3). What Olympic sport do you like? Why?
2. Students listen and check the true sentences. (Activity Four)
1). Chinese people are good at gymnastics, but we aren’t good at table tennis. (×)
2). Daming thinks that table tennis is more popular than gymnastics. (√)
3). Betty’s favourite sport is basketball. (×)
4). Daming thinks that running is more boring than basketball. (×)
5). Betty thinks that skiing is more dangerous than running and cycling. (√)
3. Students listen again and check the sports they like. (Activity five)
Gymnastics Basketball Running Cycling
Daming √ √ √
Betty √ √
4. Language Points
1）. Chinese people are very good at gymnastics. 中国人非常擅长体操。
be good at sth. / doing sth. 擅长做某事
e.g. Tony is good at English.
Maggie is good at playing the piano.
2） 当表达多音节形容词的比较级时，由more + adj. + than + 比较的对象构成。
Eg. Table tennis is more popular than gymnastics.
Running is more boring than basketball.
Cycling is more relaxing than running.
Ex. (1)我认为这个问题比那个难。
I think this problem is _________________ than that one.
(2).在中国，乒乓球比足球受欢迎。
Table tennis is ________________ football in China.
(3). 篮球比跑步更让人激动吗？
______ basketball __________ than running?
(4). 体操和滑雪，哪一个更放松？
Which is ____________, gymnastics or skiing?
Homework:
1. To preview some points: it + be +adj.+for sb. + to do sth. ; leave for; arrive at, get to, reach; more than; need to; take sb. around; until
2. To make a dialogue talking about the sports you like
3. To finish Unit1 Module6, 典中点