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Unit 3 Sports and Fitness Reading and Thinking
教学目标
By the end of this class, students will be able to:
1. predict the content of the text with the help of titles and pictures;
2. figure out the achievements and qualities of Lang Ping and Michael Jordan and form opinions about successful athletes;
3. use the words and phrases learned in this class to introduce another “living legend” you admire.
教学重点：
1.help students master reading abilities.
2. guide students to find out the best qualities of successful athletes and learn from them.
3.encourage them to use what they have learned in class to describe their ideal living legends.
教学难点:
1. How to help them master different skills efficiently and effectively.
2. How to guide them to figure out the best qualities of successful athletes.
教学过程
Part 1 pre-reading activities
①Prediction :Look at the pictures and the titles. What is the text probably about
Skill 1: make predictions
Look at the pictures and titles and think about the content before reading. This helps you to relate what you read to what you already know and to understand the new text.
②Exploration:1. What is the purpose of this text
To collect readers’ suggestions for living legends of sports.
Skill 2: connect information
Pay attention to the information before and after the text and figure out the purpose of the whole text.
2.What kind of people can be living legends
They must be athletes who are masters in their sports and also set good examples for others.
Part 2 reading activities
①Lang Ping :
Reading and Thinking
as a player Lang Ping brought honour and glory to her country.
as a coach she led the China women's volleyball team to medals at world championships and the Olympics.
as a person Lang Ping is loved by fans at home and abroad.
Question 1: As a player, Lang Ping brought honour and glory to her country.
What can be inferred from this statement
Lang Ping was a wonderful player with great gifts. She must have worked very hard and won many championships and medals for China.
Question 2. How was Lang Ping’s determination tested in the 2015 World Cup
What did she choose to do What was the result
Discussion
Skill-building 3: read between lines
Relate details in the text with the theme and get the inferred information from the text.
②Michael Jordan
Reading and Thinking
1. What does the first sentence in the paragraph introducing Michael Jordan mean
It means when Michael Jordan jumped in the air, it felt like time had slowed down,because his amazing skills were almost like magic.
2. Why does the writer mention “ the final seconds of a game”？
Because in basketball this is an important time when one team could win with a few points at the last moment.
The writer wants to show that Michael Jordan has unique mental strength as well as impressive basketball skills.
3. What unique mental strength does Michael Jordan have？How do you know that
Michael Jordan has the unique strength of never giving up and he is always determined, positive, confident, inspiring, kind and helpful.
Supporting details
What Jordan says “I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
What Jordan does share his success with others;start The Boys and Girls Club to help young people since 1996.
Skill 4: use supporting details
Use facts, reasons, examples, statistics, opinions, quotations or findings of experts or authorities to support, prove or explain the main idea.
Language Appreciation
1.As a player, Lang Ping brought honour and glory to her country.
As a coach, she led the China women's volleyball team to medals at world championships and the Olympics.
As a person, Lang Ping is loved by fans at home and abroad.
Parallelism:
Parallelism is a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses. The application of parallelism in sentence construction can sometimes improve writing style, clearness and readability.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
2.When Michael Jordan’s feet left the ground, time seemed to stand still.
Personification is a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are represented with human qualities or form.
Part 3: Post-reading activities
Discussion
1. What reasons does the writer give for choosing Lang Ping and Michael Jordan Who would you choose as another “living legend of Sports”？Give your reasons.
2. What can we learn from successful athletes？
From the successful athletes, we learn that strong determination to never give up can help achieve goals. They also teach us to practice a lot, and not to be put off by failure but learn from them.
Consolidation
Use the words and phrases below to talk about Lang Ping, Michael Jordan, and the athlete that you admire.
Revision:
Homework:
1. Read the text aloud.
2. Use the words and expressions you have learnt in this class to write a short passage about the athlete you admire, giving your reasons why you choose him/her to be a “living legend” and share your writing with your classmates.

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