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Unit 1 Breaking RecordsThe First Period Warming up and ReadingTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语hurdling, boxing, lunge, approximate, zip, approximately, conventional, laughter, reality, adjustment, tough, extreme, vomit, gymnastics, gymnastically, unfit, fascinate, meditation, spiritual, marathon, accomplish, motivation, devotion, soul, sacred, deed, conception, regret, repentance, wisdom, virtue, noble, doom, bid, juggle, triathlon, triathlete, amateur, champion, therefore, springboard, economics, entire, attain, courageous, appreciate, appreciation, tact, accountant, receptionist, lawyer, politician, scarf, underwear, overcoat, salary, wage, urge, profileb. 重点句子1. More than twenty of these he still holds, including the record of having the most records.2. But these records are not made in any conventional sport like swimming or soccer. 3. Rather Ashrita attempts to break records in very imaginative events and in very interesting places.4. Think about the fine neck adjustments needed to keep a full bottle of milk on your head while you are walking. 5. While Ashrita makes standing on top of a 75 cm Swiss ball look easy, it is not.6. Somersaulting is a tough event as you have to overcome dizziness, extreme tiredness and pain.7. Covering a mile in the fastest time while doing gymnastically correct lunges is yet another event in which Ashrita is outstanding.8. Sri Chinmoy says that it is just as important for people to develop their bodies as it is to develop their minds, hearts and spiritual selves.9. He had been urged by his spiritual leader to enter the marathon even though he had done no training. 10. So, when he won third place, he came to the understanding that his body was just an instrument of the spirit and that he seemed to be able to use his spirit to accomplish anything.11. From then on, Ashrita refused to accept any physical limitation.12. The motivation to keep trying to break records comes through his devotion to Sri Chinmoy.13. Ashrita always acknowledges his teacher in his record-breaking attempts.14. In his teens he was a triathlete but at 16 he began to concentrate on cycling.15. He was an amateur cyclist before the 1992 Olympic Games but turned professional after he had competed in the Games.16. In 1999 he won the Tour de France and in 2003 he achieved his goal of winning five Tours de France.2. Ability goals 能力目标1.To develop the studentsreading ability, learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, skimming and so on; 2. Enable the students to talk about their feeling about sport events and also the GWR.3. Help the students to talk about their feeling about sport events and also the GWR.。a. Enable students to talk about their eating.In what ways the food you eat helps you?How can you have a healthy diet?What will happen if you dont have a balanced diet?b. Understand the text and answer the following questions.What happened to Wang Pengweis restaurant?Why would his customers prefer to eat at Yong Huis restaurant?What did he do after leaving Yong Huis restaurant?c. Understand the details about the text and retell the text in the role of Wang Pengwei.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Enable the students to learn how to talk about their eating.What does a healthy diet mean?Is what Yong Hui did right? Why? What will you do if you are Wang Pengwei?1. Talk about records, adventures and hobbies2. Practise expressing surprise:Youre kidding! Is that all? Thats wonderful! How amazing!Teaching important points 教学重点Encourage students to ask questions under a certain topic.Teaching difficult points 教学难点Talk about the relationship between ones spiritual motivation and physical action.Teaching methods 教学方法a. Fast and careful reading.b. Asking-and-answering activity to check the Ss understanding of the text.c. Individual, pair or group work to finish each task.d. Discussion.Teaching aids 教具准备A recorder, a computer and a projector.Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step I Warming up Get the students to talk about pictures in Warming up. What is your feeling about these participants?Which is your hero?How do they make the word records?DiscussionWhat is healthy diet?Healthy diet: a diet that is balanced and neither too rich in fat, sugar and salt nor too poor and lacking in essential nutrients.Speaking Decide which food is junk food or healthy food and give reasons.I think is junk food because I think is healthy food because (be rich in; be low in)Step Pre-readingLook at the pictures and go through the new wording of different activities.Ask Ss to match the pictures and answer questions on Page 1Get the students to discuss the questions with their partners in this part. 1. What do you think should go into a good meal? A good meal should contain some food from each of the three categories above.2. Imagine you and your partner are going to invite some friends for dinner. What special food of your place would you offer them? Plan a menu.3. Look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures. Predict what the passage is about.Fast reading Read the text quickly to find out which sentence is the main idea of the text. 1.The two restaurants supplied the healthy food.2.The reason why Yong Huis restaurant was so popular with customers.3.Wang Pengwei found out why he had lost his customer and decided to win them back.Key: 3Reading1. Usually Wang Pengs restaurant was full of people. T2. Yong Hui could make people thin in two weeks by giving them a good diet. It would take longer than that. F3. Wang Pengs regular customers often became fat. T4. Yong Huis menu gave customers more emer