必修二unit2TheOlympicGames

1、Unit 2 The Olympic GamesWarming Up & Pre-reading 教材分析 At the beginning of the class, the teacher lead in the topic of the unit by enjoying a video about a Chinese champion Liu Xiang and talking about other champions and events.Warming up provides a quiz about the Olympic Games. Its purpose is to int

2、roduce students to the ancient Olympic Games and see how much they know about recent modern Olympic Games.Pre-reading contains two general questions about the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Students can be encouraged to discuss these questions and then one of them tells the class their ideas.Proc

3、ess and methods1. Warming up In this part teachers should make sure the students make full use of exercise to learn about the basic knowledge on the Olympic Games. They should not look at the answers till both have completed as much as they can of the question. In this way students can know of the a

4、ncient Olympic Games and remember of recent modern Olympic Games.2. Pre-reading In this period, teachers had better pay attention to the first two questions are factual. The purpose of this activity is to focus the students on the differences between the modern and ancient Olympic Games.2. 学情分析高一（上）

5、学生学习积极性较高，思维活跃，观点新颖，敢于提出自己不同的看法及见解。三年的初中英语学习，使学生储备了一定的词汇和英语语言知识，但初中养成的一些学习习惯（如大量机械记忆单词、句型，反复复述课文等）一时还难以改正，而且对高中英语学习的策略和学习环境还很陌生，他们迫切希望获取高中英语学习方法的指导，尤其是在有效的自主学习能力培养方面的指导。同时，高一新生基本具备一定的电脑操作知识和网上搜索和查阅知识的能力。这些都为本课学生运用信息技术进行课堂整合提供了有力的支持。Knowledge aimLet students learn about the basic knowledge on the Oly

6、mpic Games.Ability aim:Enable students to learn to talk about the Olympic Games.Enable students to learn to write something about the Olympic Games.Emotional aim:Arouse students great interest in the Olympic Games.Develop students sense of cooperative learning.Teaching important point:Let students l

7、earn more about the basic knowledge on the Olympic Games.Teaching difficult points:Enable students to learn to talk about the Olympic Games.Teaching methods:Task-based teaching and learningCooperative learningDiscussionTeaching procedureStep 1Lead in 1. Share some pictures about events of the Olympi

8、cs.2. Enjoy a video about Liu Xiang.Step 2 Warming up How much do you know about the Olympics? 1. Show five rings flag and talk about it. 2. Show Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and talk something about them. 3. Ask other questions.(1). Where did the ancient Olympic Games start? I

9、n Olympia, Greece(2). What are the three words that show the spirit of the Olympic Games? Swifter, higher and stronger(3). How many countries competed in the ancient Olympic Games? Only one, Greece(4). When and where did the modern Olympic Games start? Athens in 1896(5). Who was Chinas first gold me

10、dal winner and for what event? Xu Haifeng, shootingStep 3 pre-readingTell differences and similarities between the ancient and modern Olympic Game.Differencesancient Olympicsmodern OlympicsTypes (time)summersummer and winterPlacesonly in Athensdifferent citiesCompetitorsmen in Greece anybody reaches

11、 the standardEventsrunning races horse riding over 250 eventsPrizesolive wreathsmedalsSimilarities1. Both are held .2. Both are held for but not for money.3. The same motto: .4. are allowed to take part in .5. Some events are , such as running, jumping, shooting and throwingAnswers: 1 every four yea

12、rs 2. honor 3. Swifter, Higher and Stronger.4. Men both 5. the sameStep 4 Discussion1. Is it worthwhile to host the Olympic Games?Hosting the Olympic Games had good effects on city/country, but it also brought some bad results.Good effects: Bad effects:make more friends cost muchdevelop economy dist

13、urb lifesports develop faster more pollutionmake the country known to the world sports centers will not be more interest in sports made full use of later wider streets2. Writing (in group) Write a short passage according to what you discussed above. SampleWe have discussed about whether it is necess

14、ary to bid to host the Olympic Games. Opinions are divided in two.Some students think it is necessary for a country to host the Olympic Games. They believe it has good effects in many aspects. First, it will help make the city, even the country known to the world and the environment of the city will

15、 be improved. Besides, more sports centers will be built and many roads widened. Whats more, athletes will improve their skills.However, others hold the opposite opinion. They think a lot of money will be spent on the sports centers which will not be made full use of later. Whats worse, visitors coming in large numbers will disturb people normal life and make the environment worse.So whether to hold the Games needs us to balance the bad effects carefully.Step 5 Summary What do you learn in this class?Step 5 Homework1. W