1、Unit 3 Sports and Fitness Reading and Thinking Teaching objectives: By the end of this period, you will be able to 1.predict the content and type of the text by looking through the pictures and titles; 2.learn about the stories and sportsmanship of the sports masters; 3. analyze the structure and la
2、nguage features of the passage; 4.share the stories of your living legends and give your reasons using the expressions from the passage. Lead in 1.What can you see in the picture? A young woman is running or jogging up a hill. 2.What are the functions of sports and exercise? Sports and exercise are
3、popular way of keeping fit and healthy. They can also help us stay happy and positive. 3.Why do people take exercise? People not only do sports to lose weight and keep healthy but to practise for races such as marathons, playing football and basketball. Making proper predictions Living Legends Tradi
4、tionally, a legend is a story from ancient times about people and events, either true or fictional such as the legend of Robin Hood. Today we use it to refer to a very famous person who is admired by many people. 1.What do you think the text is probably about? The pictures show figures doing differe
5、nt _, so it must be about_. The title is Living Legends, so it must be about _. The subtitles are Lang Ping and Michael Jordan, so it must be about _. 2.Where does the text from? A. guidebook. B. The Internet. C. A magazine. The characteristics of a magazine article: It consists of 3 main parts: Tit
6、le(including subtitles), Lead paragraph or Summary, Body. Illustrations and additional information may be included too. The language is usually easy to understand, brief and accurate. sports sports great sports people still alive today. their stories C Discourse learning(语篇学习) Textual Analysis(语篇分析)
7、 Pragmatic Analysis(语用分析) Topic-related Lexis（话题相关词汇链） Thinking and Sharing (思考与分享) Textual Analysis(语篇分析) 1. Structure Analysis(结构分析): Look through the whole passage and answer the questions: How many parts are there in the passage? Whats the main idea of each part? _ 4 Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Lead
8、 paragraph Body Body Ending the definition of living legends of sports Lang Pings achievements and her good qualities or sportsmanship. Micheal Jordans achievements and his good qualities or sportsmanship asking for the readers advice Part 1 Read part 1 and answer the question: What are the two stan
9、dards of becoming living legends in sports? They must be masters in their sports and can set good examples for others. Part 2 Read Part 2 and think over the questions: What are the achievements of Lang Ping? What kind of figures of speech(修辞手法) is used here? A. Parallelism(排比) B. Rhyme(押韵) C. Simile
10、(明喻) D. Metaphor(暗喻) As a player, Lang Ping brought honour and glory to her country. As a coach, she led the China womens volleyball team to medals at world championships and the Olympics. As a person, Lang Ping is loved by fans at home and abroad. A What happened in each stage(阶段)of the event descr
11、ibed in this part? Timeline： Beginning The team lost two important players when preparing for the 2015 World Cup. Development She bravely faced the difficulties and believed her young players could win if they worked as a team. Climax They were world champions in the 2015 World Cup. Ending They were
12、 world champions in 2016 again. What can we learn from Lang Ping? She always shows great determination, team spirit and never lose heart, proving shes a true champion. A short summary of this part Lang Ping A player who brought hounour and glory to her country A coach who led the Chinese womens voll
13、eyball team to medals A big challenging experience A person who is loved by fans at home and abroad Her achievements determination team spirit never lose heart Her good qualities Watch a video about Lang Ping. Read Part 3 and answer the following questions: What made Michael Jordan unique?_ Match th
14、e following sentences with the correct figures of speech: A. ., time seemed stand still. a. simile(明喻) B. The player who became known as “Air Jordan” changed . b. quotation(引用) C. “I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But .” c. personification(拟 人) Part 3 His mental strength that he sh
15、owed. What can we learn from Micheal Jordan? He showed great strength. And he never let failures stop him and gave up his dreams. He works hard. He is willing to help others. A short summary of this part Micheal Jordan Known as “Air Jordan” His mental strength helping others His achievements His goo
16、d qualities learn from failures hard work never give up Watch a video to appreciate Jordans graceful movements. Pragmatic Analysis(语用分析) 1.Why does the article introduce these two living legends to us? To let us know their achievements, personal qualities and charm; to encourage us to learn from the
17、m. 2.Whod like to read the article? Anyone, especially those who are interested in sports. Topic-related Lexis (话题相关词汇链) Famous athletes Identity(身份) Difficulty Achievement Lang Ping player coach champion. injured failure give up. bring honour and glory lead the team to medals world championship. Mi
18、cheal Jordan basketball player Air Jordan. failure give up. graceful impressive mental strength share success with others. Use the words and expressions to retell the two stories. Micheal Jordan: He played basketball in a graceful way, but also showed great mental strength. He never let failure stop
19、 him and never gave up his dreams. Instead, he learned from failures and practiced harder. Besides, he set a good example for us because he learnt to share success with others. Lang Ping: She brought glory and honour to the country as both a player and a coach. When preparing for the World Cup in 21
20、05, faced with losing two important players, she showed great determination and never lost heart. As a result, they were world champions twice with team work. Suggested answers： Thinking and Sharing (思考与分享) Apart from the two living legends mentioned in the passage, who would you choose as another l
21、iving legend? The pictures can help you. 贝克汉姆 伏明霞 The pictures and the following expressions can help you. athlete determination unique bring glory and honour champion failure injured set a good example captain medal impressive lose heart player strength graceful give up . . . . My favourite athlete
22、 is Yao Ming. He is widely considered the greatest basketball player in China. He grew up in Shanghai and his skill and determination led him to play for our country and brought glory and honour to our country. After stopping playing, he has been playing an important role in promoting sports and pro
23、tecting the wildlife. Suggested answers： predict learn about analyze share the content and type of the text by looking through the pictures and titles; the stories and sportsmanship of the sports masters; the structure and language features of the passage; the stories of your living legends and give your reasons using the expressions from the passage. Have you achieved the learning objectives in this class? 1.Review what we have learnt in class . 2.Write a short passage of your living legend. (Within 80 words) 3.Search for more information about the living legends in sports on the Internet.
