Unit 3 Faster, Higher, Stronger
Lesson 8 Olympic Winners
教材分析
This lesson is the eighth lesson in the eighth grade of the eighth grade of Beijing normal university. The topic is the Olympic Games. This class for the second class, this unit is mainly talking about the 2008 Olympic Games and Olympic winners for the part of the project, this paper introduces the athletes age, height and most of the high jump, long jump, lifting weights three games best. The author introduces the most advanced form of the Olympic athlete in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and carries on the study of the language form of the superlative adjective adverb, and conveys the athletes’ persistent Olympic spirit.
教学目标
【知识目标】
Olympic, diving, gymnastics, horse-riding, weightlifting, athlete, horse-rider, compete, at the age of, national, champion, gymnast, diver, medal, competition, meter, gold, weightlifter, runner.
【能力目标】
At the end of this lesson, students can:
1. Read and understand the Olympic vocabulary.
2. Fill in the form through reading, obtain the personal information of the athlete and the performance of the competition and give an oral introduction to the athlete’s personal information.【情感目标】
Build sports spirits.
教学重难点
【教学重点】
How to listen to the conversation to get information about the sports.
【教学难点】
How to train their ability.
课前准备
Multimedia.
教学过程
Step 1. Warm up
What Olympic sports do you know?
swimming
Which of these is Not an Olympic event?
Step 2. Reading
Read and match the headings with the texts.
The heaviest and strongest
The highest and the longest jumps
The oldest and the youngest
The tallest and the shortest
Read and match the headings with the texts.
The oldest and the youngest
?
Name
Sports
athletes
Age
?The oldest
Hiroshi Hoketsu
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?
?
The youngest
Antoinette Guedia
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?
?
What do you think of her ?
The tallest and the shortest
?
Name
sports
Athletes
Height
The tallest
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
The highest and the longest jump
?
Name
Sports
Athletes
How high/long
?
?Andrey
?
?
?
?
?Maurren
?
?
?
The heaviest and strongest
?
Name
Sports
Athletes
Weight
The heaviest and
strongest
Matthias
Weight-lifting
?
?
What do you think of them?
How did they become Olympic winners?
great, wonderful ,talented, brave, hard-working, keep trying hard, never give up …
Read the webpage again and complete the sentences.
1. Hiroshi Hoketsu __________ in 1964.
2. The youngest athlete was a ________.
3. The _______ athletes were only 1.36m tall.
4. Andrey Silnow won a ______ medal.
5. A woman _______ Brazil won the long jump.
6. The strongest man was from _______.
Step 3. Project
Task: Make a poster titled My favorite Olympic winner in Beijing 2008.The following should be included:
Who was your favorite Olympic winner in Beijing 2008？What sport did he/she do?
Why was he/she your favorite?
What can you learn from him/her? ...
Step 4. Homework
在网上查阅你最喜欢的运动员的详细介绍及故事,进一步丰富完善海报。
The second period
Step 1. Tasks Ss to share their posters in pairs.
Then have the individual student reads the poster aloud in class and ask others to guess the athlete’s name.
1. Ss share in pairs.
2. One student reads the poster, but without reading the athlete’s name, asks the other ss to guess who is his/her favorite athlete.
Language in learning
Step 2. Learn the fun_ction of the superlative.
1. T presents the form filled last class and asks Ss to compare their age.
Then T writes this sentence on the board: Hiroshi Hoketsu is older than Antoinette Guedia.
2. Direct Ss to read the first sentence in Ex.2 and T writes it on the board.
3. Tasks Ss to think about:
(1) What are we comparing？
(2) How many things do we compare in this sentence?
4. Ss summerize the fun_ction of superlative.
(1) Learn the form of the superlative.
a. T directs Ss to the table on P31, point out one of the comparatives, high/higher.
b. T directs Ss to the table Ex.5 on P33, point out the superlative, high/highest.
c. Ss complete the table with superlative in Ex.5.
d. Ss check answers in class.
e. Ss summerize the form of superlative.
(2) Learn the sentence structure of the superlative.
a. Tasks Ss to read Ex.
b. Ask them to find examples of superlatives in the reading.
c. Ss read the sentences and find out the sentence structure of superlative.
Language in use
Step 3. EX.6 Read about the swimmers write sentences with superlatives about them.
1. T directs Ss to read the chart and explain the chart.
2. Tasks Ss “What adjectives will you use to describe about the swimmers?”
3. T gives an example.
4. Ss write sentences about the swimmers with superlatives.
5. Ss read their sentences in class.
6. Speaking Pair work
Talk about the classmates using the words in the box.
(1) Ss read the words in the box and write down the superlative form of them.
(2) T gives an example 3.
(3) Ss work in pairs.
(4) Ss report in class.
Step 4. Homework
1. Workbook P96 A, B, C
2. Listen and repeat Ex.8.
课件28张PPT。Warm upBeijing 2008
Olympic gamesThe first periodWarm up What Olympic sports do you know?Warm up swimmingbaseball gymnastics divingWarm up long jumphorse-riding weightliftingWarm up The heaviest and strongest
The highest and the longest jumps
The oldest and the youngest
The tallest and the shortestRead and match the headings with the texts.Reading Read and match the headings with the texts.Reading The oldest and the youngestThe tallest and the shortestThe highest and the longest jumpThe heaviest and strongestThe oldest and the youngest Reading horse-riderhorse-riding1267swimmerswimmingIs horse-riding easy for a 67-year-old man?What do you think of her ? The tallest and the shortest Reading basketballWhat do you think of them?basketball player2.29mgymnast gymnasticsDeng Linlin The shortestWang Xindivingdiver about 1.36mYao Ming The highest and the longest jump Reading What do you think of them?The
highest jump high jumphigh-jumper2.36 meterslong jumplong-jumper7.04 metersThe longest
jumpThe heaviest and strongest Reading weightlifter 105kgReading
great, wonderful, talented, brave, hard-working,
keep trying hard, never give up …What do you think of them ?
How did they become Olympic winners?Reading Read the webpage again and complete the sentences.Hiroshi Hoketsu __________ in 1964.
The youngest athlete was a ________.
The _______ athletes were only 1.36m tall.
Andrey Silnow won a ______ medal.
A woman _______ Brazil won the long jump.
The strongest man was from _______. competedswimmershortestgold fromGermany Project My Favorite Olympic Winner
in Beijing 2008Task: Make a poster titled My favorite Olympic winner in Beijing 2008. The following should be included:Who was your favorite Olympic winner in Beijing 2008？What sport did he/she do?
Why was he/she your favorite?
What can you learn from him/her?....在网上查阅你最喜欢的运动员的详细介绍及故事，进一步丰富完善海报。HomeworkWarm upThe second periodBeijing 2008 Olympic gamesLook at the examples and complete the table with superlatives. Grammar longestoldestlatesthottestheaviest形容词、副词最高级的构成规则：Grammar 最高级的基本用法：Grammar 常用“最高级+比较范围”结构，比较范围常用of, in, among引导的短语表达。
如：
China is one of the oldest countries in the world.中国是世界上历史最悠久的国家之一。
The book is the most interesting of all the books.这本书是所有书中最有趣的。Sentences with superlatives in Ex.2:Grammar The oldest athlete was 67-year-old Hiroshi Hoketsu. The youngest athlete, however, was only twelve years old.The tallest athlete was Yao Ming.
The shortest athletes were Deng Linlin and Wang Xin.So he was certainly the strongest and heaviest man.What do you think of them ?
How did they become Olympic winners?Practice Age: old youngWeight: heavy lightSpeed: fast slowPractice Write sentences about the swimmers using superlatives.Speaking Talk about your classmates using the words in the box.fast, funny, old, strong, tall, youngthe fastestthe funniestthe oldestthe strongestthe tallestthe youngestPronunciation Yes/no questionsWhen we ask yes/no questions, our voices usually go up at the end of the sentences.Question: Do you like tennis?Project Do you play football?
Are you the youngest?
Can you swim?
Is Tim’s brother the fastest?
Do you have a ball?Listen and repeat.Homework完成最高级相关练习题。Homework谢 谢
