高一英语教案推荐
Period 5 Integrating skills
Teaching aims:
1. To enable the students to learn more about Yao Ming and other athletes.
2. To teach the students to learn from those athletes and work hard at their lessons.
Suggestions for teaching:
1. Important and difficult points:
① To enable the students to learn what makes an athlete great and successful after reading about Yao Ming.
② To teach the students how to write a profile of a sports star by using some of the words and expressions in this unit.
2. Suggested teaching methods:
Activity 1 Lead-in
Talk about some well-known athletes.
The teacher may begin the class by asking the students to talk about their favorite superstars. The following questions may be helpful to them:
① Do you have any superstar basketball players or football players?
② What do you know about them?
After finishing this task, the teacher may introduce Yao Ming to the students by talking about the news “Yao misses title”.
Activity 2 Reading
① Get the students to listen to the profile of Yao Ming and find out:
How many points did Yao Ming score per game in the last season with the Shanghai Sharks?
② Get the students to read the passage and find out the answer to this question: Why is Yao Ming so popular?
Encourage the students to give as many reasons as possible.
Suggested answers:
(1) scored 32.4 points per game in the last season with…
(2) is now helping in the NBA
(3) has great skill and speed
(4) is a team player
(5) learnt how to play basketball when young
(6) working hard to live his dream and show the world…
Activity 3 Post reading
The teacher may ask this question:
What’s the most important reason for Yao Ming’s great success?
(He loves Basketball.)
① Ask the students to read the passage “ For the love of the game” and find out:
(1) Why should these unknown athletes be respected too?
(2) How is the spirit of the Olympic Games shown on them?
Suggested answers:
(1) They train hard although they have to work and pay for their own trips and equipment; They only care about getting better and about competing for their country; They are proud to be part of the Games.
(2) The spirit of the Olympic Games is shown in their love for the game.
② Discussion
Divide the students into groups of four and ask them to discuss the following question:
Do you know any other well-known or unknown athletes? Tell us something about their club, position, weight, height and so on.
③ Writing
Get the students to write a short passage about the athlete they discussed about in the same way Yao Ming is written.
This exercise can be used as homework. The following questions can be helpful:
(1) When and where was she/ he born?
(2) How tall is she/ he?
(3) How much does she/ he weigh?
(4) When did she/ he turn professional?
