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Unit2 The Olympic Games Period1 教学设计教学设计 张权文张权文 The General Idea of This Period This period includes Warming up Reading and Comprehending of Unit 2 It introduces the similarities and differences between ancient and modern Olympic Games in the form of a interesting interview between Pausanias a Greek writer 2000 years ago and Lily a Chinese girl living at the pres ent time Reading the passage the students can learn some reading strategi es such as skimming and comparing Teaching Aims 1 Enable the students to compare the ancient Olympics with the modern ones and try to answer the questions quickly and correctly so that they learn how to generalize and compare the similarities and differences 2 Learn some useful words and expressions medal gymnasium stadi um admit take part in replace prize a set of interview as well as compete with against for replace etc 3 Learn some sentence patterns 1 I lived what you called Ancient Greece 2 I have come to your time to find out about the present day Olympic Games because I know they are to be held in my hometown of Athens Teaching Important Points 1 Help he students to compare the ancient Olympics with the modern ones and have a clear idea of their similarities and differences 2 Learn and master some important words phrases and sentence patterns in this period Teaching Difficult Points 1 How to find the implied similarities and differences by understanding the speaker s words and intonation 2 To master the important language points and sentence patterns in this passage Teaching Methods 1 Skimming to get the general idea of the text 2 Scanning to get detailed information and get to understand the passage better 3 Task based methods to get the students to comprehend the passage and be able to produce dialogues and talk about their preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games Teaching Aids A tape recorder A multimedia Teaching Procedures 1 Presentation 1 Look at the pictures of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to lead in the topic the Olympic Games 2 Different activities such as quiz guessing game knowledge about the Olympics etc to arouse the Ss interest of reading 2 While reading 1 Fast reading Ask students to tell which of the statements are true or false according to the reading passage 2 Careful reading Fill in the form tell the difference between ancient and modern Olympics according to the reading passage 3 Intensive reading Play the tape for the Ss to follow then get them to do reading comprehension 4 Practice Questions Encourage students to discuss the questions together before they reach a conclusion 5 Talking task Get the students to talk about the picture and then do the two tasks according to the instruction After some practice the teacher can ask some pairs to act their play out in front of