M1U3wordpower.doc

Period 3 Word Power

Ⅰ. Teaching aims:
Enable Ss to use the new words about the types of sport
Enable Ss to learn useful strategy to expand their vocabulary
Ⅱ. Teaching important points:
Enable Ss to learn and master words about sports

Enable Ss to know the importance to health
Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points:
Enable Ss to give correspondent definition of each new word
Enable Ss to classify the sports
Ⅳ. Teaching methods:
Cooperative learning, task-based learning
Ⅴ. Teaching aids:
A computer, a blackboard, a tape-recorder
Ⅵ. Teaching procedures:
StepⅠ Greetings
StepⅡ Brainstorming
1. Are there any school clubs in your school? Have you ever joined one?

2. Are you interested in sports clubs? Are you planning to join one?

StepⅢ Practice
Part A
1. Read the diary by Zhou Ling and summarize the types of sports she mentioned

2. Talk about which school clubs Zhou Ling can join and list some of the reasons.

Discussion
1. Are you interested in sports? What’s your favorite?

2. Can you name some types of sports you know?

Part B
1. Look at the following pictures and describe the sports

2. Decide which sports in the pictures you would like to play.

Words focus
Fill in the blanks with the names of sports
1. ___________ is a game which is usually played in the us by 2 teams of 9 people. Each player tries to hit the ball and then around in the field.
2. Sang Lan is a happy girl, even after she got hurt seriously in a ___________ competition.
3. The first gold medal that China won in the Olympics is in Men’s ___________.
4. _________ is a sport in which people play on lakes which have a thick layer of ice.
5. You will be attracted by the traditional music and ________ in Tibet or in Yun’nan Province.
6. Wushu, which is a Chinese _________, is trying to get into the Olympics.
7. In _________, people will compete in three different sports, usually swimming, cycling and running.
8. When doing ________, you will not only enjoy the beautiful music, but also strengthen the heart and lungs.
9. ________ is a sport in which the athletes run 42,195 meters.
10. When playing _________, you kick a ball and there are 10 other people in your team.
11. Wang Liqin is one of the best __________ players in the world.
12. In a game, there are 6 players in each team. They try to pat a ball over a net. It is a _____ game.
13. Tiger Woods is one of the best _______ players in the world. He is from the US.
14. Michael Jordan, O’neal and Yao Ming are _________ players.
15. Tian Liang and Guo Jingjing won gold medals for _________ in the 10th National Games.
Key: 1. baseball, 2.gymnastics, 3.shooting, 4.skating, 5.folk dance,
6.martial art, 7.triathlon, 8.aerobics, 9.marathon, 10.football,
11.table tennis, 12.volleyball, 13.golf 14.basketball, 15.diving

Part C
1. Read and complete the e-mail to Amy.

2.What are the advantages of the sports
according to Zhou Ling?
Part D
1. Look at the pictures above again and talk about whether the sports are played
indoors or outdoors.

2. Fill in the columns on page 47.

Step IV. Topics for discussion
Work in groups
group 1: What can we benefit from sports?
group 2: Say something about your favorite sport.
group 3: Look at the body movements and guess the names of the sports.
group 4: Talk about some indoor sports

Step V. Homework
1. Try to find more names of sports.

2.Do exercises on P100 in your workbook.

3.Talk about different kinds of indoor and outdoor sports.