Unit 2 This year we are training more carefully.
ⅠTeaching model
Reading and writing.
Ⅱ Teaching method
Top-down approach
Ⅲ Teaching materials
1. Listening and understanding familiar topics (sports).
2. Comparing sports, linking words correctly.
3. Reading and understanding behaviours of characters; guessing the meaning of new words from the context.
4. Writing about your school basketball team.
Ⅳ Teaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: beat, careless, cheer…on, coach, fan club, against, train, practice, warm, warm up, usual , pleased, pass, chance, loudly, confident
2. Keys structure:
Comparative adjectives (more); adverbs and comparative adverbs (-er, more); irregular comparatives.
Ⅴ Teaching aids
Recorder , OHP , video
Ⅵ Teaching Steps
Step 1 Revision
根据句意用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. This book is ________________ (interesting) than that one.
2. I think basketball is ___________ (boring) than football.
3. Swimming is ________________ (dangerous) than running.
4. Do you think maths is ____________ (difficult) than English
Step 2 Learn new words.
1. Show some pictures.
2. Talk something about the pictures.
3. Learn the new words.
Step 3 Reading and vocabulary
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures in Activity 1.
2. Talk about the pictures.
3. Use the words and expressions in the box to help you.
beat careless cheer… on coach fan club play against train
Step 4 Reading.
1. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully, then answer the questions.
Why is Daming going to school on Saturday
2) How does the team practise this year
3) Why is it good to have fans around
2. Read the passage again and complete the table.
What Why
1. We arrive ______________________.
2. We’re training _________ than ______
3. It’s _________ to practice in winter.
4. Our coach is _______________.
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 5 Language points
1. I am in our school team and we’re playing against another school next week.
我是校队成员,我们(队)下周将要和另一学校比赛。
1) Germany are ________________ Brazil in the World Cup final tonight.
今晚德国将与巴西争夺世界杯冠军。
2) We will _______________ the enemy.
我们将与敌人交战。
3) They are strongly ___________ the idea.
他们强烈反对这个主意。
4) Are you for or _________ my proposal
你(们)是同意还是反对我的计划?
2. That means we have a better chance of winning.
这就意味着我们获胜的机会更大。
have a chance of doing sth. 表示“有做某事的机会” 。例如:
1) You will __________________________ your exams if you work harder.
如果你(们)再用功一点,通过考试的机会就更大一点。
2) If we hurry up, there’s still ______________________ the plane.
要是我们抓紧点,赶上飞机的机会还是很大的。
3. We are training harder than usually because the other team beat us last year.
That means have a better chance of winning.
beat作动词, 可意为“打败;战胜”, 此时用作及物动词, 后接的宾语常常是比赛、竞争的对手。如:
They beat Xinhua Team in the baseball match.
Peter played the violin very well and he beat Tony.
win也可以表示“赢;获胜”,但是它与beat在具体用法上有区别。当用作及物动词时,后接的宾语常常是表示比赛或比赛的名次、奖品等的名词。如:
Susan won her first match for her country at the age of 16.
Class 1 won the first place in the last football match.
Deng Yaping won Olympic gold medals four times.
根据句意用win或beat的适当形式填空。
(1) My sister _____ the second place in the game yesterday.
(2) Mary is good at playing table tennis. She always ______ me.
(3) They are sure to _____ the tennis match tomorrow.
Step 6 Complete the passage.
1. Complete the passage with the words in the box.
against chance coach practice short usual
We all know (1) __________ makes perfect. But it is more difficult to practice in winter because the days are (2) __________ and it’s cold. The team is training harder than (3) ___________, so their (4) ___________ is pleased with them. They are going to play (5) ___________ a team from another school next week, and they have a good (6) ___________ of winning.
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 7 Opposite meanings
1. Ask the students to the words in the box in Activity 4.
badly carefully carelessly difficult early easy late quickly slowly well
2. Put the words from the box into pairs with opposite meanings.
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
5. Now decide which word has two opposites.
Step 8 Writing
1. Complete the sentences so they’re true for your school basketball team.
1) It is … and the basketball team …
2) The practice starts at … but they …
3) Last year …
4) This year …
5) The coach is pleased / isn’t pleased with them because …
6) So they now have a better / poor chance of…
2. Learning to learn
You can use at that time / yesterday/ last week / last month/ last year … to talk what people did in the past; and use now / today / this week / this month / this year … to talk about what they do now when you make a comparison.
3. Possible answers:
1) It is Saturday and the school basketball team arrives to practise / train with the coach.
2) The practice starts at 9 o’clock but they arrived early to warm up.
3) Last year they were careless / lost all the matches.
4) This year they are playing well.
5) The coach is pleased because they are training hard.
The coach is not pleased because they are not playing well.
6) So they now have a better/worse chance of winning.
Step 9 Writing task
Add some more details about your school basketball team. Write a passage.
It’s Saturday morning and the school basketball team is training hard