A Lesson Plan for

Unit 10, Lesson 38, Senior Book I

Teacher: Zhang Zhonggang

Time:    November 25,1998

Class:   Class 8, Grade 1   

School:  Dali Senior Middle School of Nanhai City

THE OLYMPIC GAMES

 Teaching Objectives:

  1 Vocabulary: in modern times, take part in, gold

               ( 4-skill )

               compete, unusual, prize ( 3-skill )

               Olympic Games, athlete, BC, AD,

               Greece, competitor , competition,

               Barcelona, motto, swift, medal,

               Carl Lewis ( 2-skill )

  2 Text reading

II Main Points:

   1 Reading comprehension skills ( skimming and

     scanning )

   2 Reading comprehension ( True or False )

III Difficult Points:

    1 Usage of "every" and "join"

2 The Attributive Clause introduced by "prep +

  which"

IV Teaching Methods:

   1 The Direct Teaching method

   2 The Audio-Visual method

   3 The Reading method

V  Teaching Aids:

   A computer and its supplementary instruments

VI Teaching Steps:

   Step 1 Revision ( 5 mins )

          1 Revise the names of sports.

            The Ss watch video and tell the names of

            sports.  (  shooting, horse-riding,

            wrestling, sailing, etc )

          2 Ask some Ss to have dialogues about

            sports.  (  whether often have sports,

            preferences? had what sports  in the

            school sports meeting )

   Step 2 Preparation for reading ( 10 mins )

          1 The school sports meeting - the National

            Games -the Asian Games - the Olympic

            Games ( the title )

            Ask the Ss where the athletes are from

            and what the names of the sports

            meetings are.

          2 About the Olympic flag: 5 colours & 5

            rings

            Explain to the Ss why there are 5

            coloured rings.

            5 colours: blue, yellow, black, green

                       and red

            5 rings: standing for Europe, Asia,

                    Africa, Australia and America

          3 Teach some new words:

            Olympic Games,athlete, gold medal,

            prize,competition, etc

          4 Read about the Olympic Games to find out

            when and  where the first Olympic Games

            in modern times were.

   Step 3 Reading ( 20 mins )

          1 Read the second paragragh to find out

            what it is about.

            Practise skimming.

          2 Read the fourth paragragh to recognize

            some details.

            Practise scanning.

          3 Read the passage and tell if the

            sentences are true or false.

            See the Ss' exercises. ( P₁: Reading

            comprehension )

          4 Deal with some language points.

            1) every four years

            2) take part in, compete in, join in and

               join

            3) compete, competition, competitor

            4) from which the modern games came

          5 Speech Cassette Lesson 38. The Ss listen

            to  the  first  4 paragraghs and  the

            Teacher reads out the last 2 paragraghs.

          6 Discuss the contents of the last 2

            paragraghs.

            1) What the Olympic motto means

            2) About Carl Lewis

            3) About holding the Olympics

   Step 4 Test ( 5 mins )

          See the Ss' exercises. ( P₁-P₂ )

   Step 5 Consolidation  ( 5 mins )

          1 Write something about the numbers

            appearing in the passage.

            776 BC   393 AD   1896   1984   1992  

            250   311   8000

          2 Revise the contents of the passage.

   Homework

          1 Finish off the Workbook exercises.