Unit2TheOlympicGames.doc

Unit 2 The Olympic Games
Reading
By Wan Lin from No. 16 Middle School
Teaching aims:
1. Let students get familiar with some new words and expressions.
2. Let students know something about the Olympic Games.
3. Enable students to understand the text better.
4. Encourage students to make an interview.

Teaching Important points:
1. How to let students understand the text better.
2. Let students know the differences and similarities between the modern Olympics and the ancient Olympics by reading the text.

Teaching Difficult points:
How to find the implied similarities and differences by understanding the speaker’s words and intonations.

Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ Lead-in
Play a video to warm up and lead in the topic of this class.

Ⅱ Pre-reading
1. Do you know any other events in the Olympic Games?
2. Do you know anything more about the Olympic Games?
3. What is an interviewer? And what is an interviewee?

Ⅲ Reading
1. Read paragraph 1 and find out some information.
2. Scan the text quickly and find the main idea of the text.
3. Listen to the tape and find out the differences and similarities between the modern Olympics and the ancient Olympics.
4. Read the text carefully and answer some more questions.
⑴ Will any athlete be admitted as competitors? Why?
⑵ How does Pausanias feel when he knows that women can also take part in the Olympic Games? Why?
⑶ Why does every country want to host the Olympic Games?

Ⅳ Comprehending
1. What aspects of the Olympics are talked about in the text?
How, what, ______, ______, ______, for what
2. What’s Li Yan’s attitude towards the Modern Olympics?
A. disappointed B. uninterested C. proud
3. Where can you probably find this kind of article?
A. novel B. newspaper C. magazine
4. How does the writer introduce the Olympics?
A. by comparing B. by giving examples C. by explaining
5. Which word can best replace the word “basis”?
A. theory B. practice C. discipline

Ⅴ Group Work
Make an interview.

The ancient Olympic Games started in 776 BC and stopped in 393 AD. The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years in summer in Greece. Only Greece free-citizens (公民) could take part. Slaves were not allowed to compete. And only men and boys could compete in the ancient Olympic Games. Women could take part in chariot races (敞篷马车比赛) with horses but this was the only time they could join in. Married women were not even allowed to watch the games. If they try to watch the games, they could be put to death. The winners got wreaths made of olive leaves. They didn’t receive money but they could get presents from their hometowns. There was no Winter Olympic Games in the ancient Olympic Games. There were many events, such as boxing, running, horse riding, wrestling(摔跤). And the motto of the ancient Olympic Games was also “Swifter, Higher, Stronger”.

Ⅵ Homework
1. Think why Pausanias wants to know something about the modern Olympics.
2. Review the text and learn more about the ancient and modern Olympics.