Lesson3SportsStars

1、Lesson 3 Sports StarsTeaching Objectives:1. Knowledge aim:To learn and grasp new words and expressions:athlete, fortunately, amazing, brilliant, skilful, awful, useless,compete, keen, event, unusual, champion, violence, speak about, look back, be strict with compete against, express a keen interest

2、in, be full of, come to an end2. Ability aims:To read a text for general ideas and specific information.To provide a title appropriate for a whole text.To practise using positive and negative opinion adjectives.To know more information about two famous tennis players and learn a lot from them.3. Mor

3、al aims:To get students to know the fact that they will never give uo or step back facing difficulty, hardship or even disasters.Teaching important points and difficulties:To grasp many new words and expressions.To provide a title appropriate for a whole textTo practise using positive and negative o

4、pinion adjectives.Teaching approaches:Talking, pair work, individual work, students-centered, task-basedTeaching Aids:computer and cassetteTeaching time:40 minutesTeaching procedures:Step1. ReviewReview new words and expressions of this lesson on the screen(athlete, fortunately, amazing, brilliant,

5、skilful, awful, useless, compete, keen, event, unusual, champion, violence, speak about, look back, be strict with compete against, express a keen interest in, be full of, come to an end)Step 2 Lead-inWho are your sporting heroes or heroines?In pairs, use the key words to talk about them.Key Words p

6、ositive: brilliant, fast, skillful, smart, strong, useful negative: awful, boring, lazy, slow, terrible, useless, weak ExampleA: In my opinion, Ron aldo is a brillia nt p layer. He is very fast and skillful.B: I don t agree. I think he is onOffidFin ally show the pi ctures of Williams sisters. Show

7、the two sisters basic in formatio n on the scree n.Ste p3 While-readingTask 1 Skimming for a titleWhat is the best title for the text?A. How to become a tennis starB. Road to successC. Tennis is my favorite sp ortsD. Tennis stars Williams sistersTask 2 Skimming for topic sentencesRead the p assage q

8、uickly and match the topic with each p aragra phFamily backgro undTraining and studyAchieveme nts and close relati on shi pBrief in troducti onParalPara2Para3Para4Task 3 Scanning for sp ecific informationAn swer the questi ons.1. Why are the sisters unu sual?2. What kind of backgro und are they from

9、?3. Who helped them to succeed?4. How do the two sisters get on at home?Task 4 Fill in the blanks.Briefbothtennisn troducti oncha mpionsBirth pl acePare ntsfather (Richard)mother (Bra ndi)Road to successin 19963since 1996in 1999 ,2002in 2002 ,2003elatio nshipTask 5 True or false1. The two sisters pl

10、an to take up tennis career all their life.2. In comp etitive matches the two sisters seldom pl ayed each other.3. The two sisters have no com mon hobby exce pt tennis.4. In their childhood the people around Williams sisters ofte n fought each other using guns.5. Williams parents pl ayed an imp orta

11、 nt part in their success.6. The two sisters miss their childhood so they ofte n go back to their hometow n.Ste p 3 Post-reading activitiesVoice your opinionWhat are the adva ntages and disadva ntages of being sp orts stars?Ste p 4 SummarySummarize what has bee n lear nt in this p eriodSte p 5 Homew

12、ork1. Rewrite the text and pay atte nti on to the forms of the give n words as follows:Venus and Sere na are both tennis (cha mpion). They were born in an areawhich wasof drugs and(viole nt) .In 1991, the sisters and their familymoved to a(safe) area and since then they have never(look) back.Richard

13、, their father, was strictthem and trained them hard to comp eteeach other. Both sisters are study ing desig n at college now. They have already(express) a keen interest in working in design after their tennis careers stop. The sisters road to success has bee n(amze). It was in 1996 that Venus p layed inbig eve nt for the first time. Since the n, she has won Wimbled on and the US Open (two).tennis ever caused p roblems betwee n the sisters? Fort un ately, no.2. Un dersta nd