1、Unit 2 The Olympic GamesThe First Period ReadingTeaching goals 1. Ability goals1. Talk about ancient and modern Olympic Games and Olympic spirit.2. Enable the students to know more about the Olympic Games.3. Promote the Ss reading ability.2. Emotion goals 1. Arouse Ss interest in the Olympic Games.2
2、. Develop Ss sense of cooperative learning.Teaching important individual, pair or group work; discussion.Teaching aids A computer, English books and test papers.Teaching procedures & ways Step I Leading-inVideo: You and MeStep II Warming UpWork in pairs and discuss the questions. ( PPT)Step III Read
3、ing Task 1 SkimmingSkim the passage and find out the answers to the question:What are they mainly talking about?Task 2 ScanningRead the passage and fill the chart. (PPT)Items The ancient Olympics The modern OlympicsFrequency Every _ years Every _ yearsTypes Only summer Olympics Summer and _ Olympics
4、Events Fewer _Athletes Only_ from _ cities From_ including womenPlaces Greece _is possiblePrize _ _Task 3 Summarizing (PPT)Fill the blanks to summarize the interview. The Olympic Games are the biggest sports meeting in the world, which include two kinds, the summer Olympic Games and the winter Olymp
5、ic Games. Both of them are _ every four years. All countries can take part if their athletes have reached the _ for the events. Women are not only_ , but play a very _. A _ is built for the competitors to live in. Its a great responsibility and a great _ to host the Olympic Games . The olive wreath has been _ by medals. But the motto of the Olympics is still _.Step IV DiscussingWhy did we make great efforts to host 2008 Olympic Games? StepV HomeworkListen once and read twice.
