Lesson Three Sports Stars Li Yue

Hurdle player——Liu Xiang Basketball player——Yao Ming

Football player—— David Backham Diving player——Guo Jingjing

Table tennis player Deng Yaping

Venus Williams Serena Williams The Williams sisters

Self-study Scanning and Skimming Fill in the blanks

fast reading Paragraph 1: Venus and Serena Williams are both _______. The sisters were born in ________________. Paragraph 3: The sisters’ ______ trained them to play tennis, while their _________ taught them at home. Paragraph 4: The sisters’ road to _______ has been amazing. And they get on ____ with each other. fast reading

Paragraph 1: Venus and Serena Williams are both _______________. Paragraph 2: The sisters were born in ___________________ _____________. tennis champions a poor and dangerous area of California

Paragraph 3: The sisters’ ______ trained them to play tennis, while their _________ taught them at home. Paragraph 4: The sisters’ road to _______ has been amazing. And they get on _____ with each other. father mother success well

Listen and read after the tape Circle the following words and guess the meaning of them while listening. champion, train, look back, compete against, express an interest in, come to an end, amazing, keen, fortunately, make progress, improve

Match the Key Words with the explanations. 1 to make sb. professional by practise 2 think of the past 3 (of feeling) surprise or wonder 4 try to win sth. by defeating others who are do the same 5 One that wins first place or first prize in a competition amazing compete against train champion look back

to become better 7 be over , finish 8 (of feeling) eager to do sth,want to do sth strongly with or by good chance or luckily 10 development, especially towards a better situation 11 to show one’s attention to something fortunately keen improve express an interest in come to an end make progress

Complete the following sentences, using the Key Words. 1 Bailey __________against athletes half his age and won at last. 2 My health finally began to ___________ when I changed to a less stressful job. 3 Max’s success as a runner is really________ 4 Parents _______________________ the amount of violence in some children’s shows. competed improve amazing express an interest in

6 I broke my arm but _________ it’s fine now fortunately 6 I broke my arm but _________ it’s fine now 7 When the concert _________________, the crowd poured out of the hall. 8 Are you ______ to play tennis this afternoon? 9 He kept working hard at English and _______ great __________ in it. 10 Yang Liwei ___________ the past five years when he was __________ as an astronaut. come to an end keen made progress looked back trained

Further reading fill in the table Task 1 Task 2 match the headings Content Layouts

Task 1: fill in the table Who Venus Williams Serena Williams Rank in the world When and where to move What to study at college Prizes

In 1991,they moved to a safer area Who Venus Williams Serena Williams Rank in the world When and where to move What to study at college Prizes 11 3 In 1991,they moved to a safer area Both are studying design at college has won the Wimbledon and the US Open twice. In 1999 and 2002, won the US Open. In 2002and 2003, the women’s singles champion at Wimbledon

Task 2: match the headings and the paragraphs ( )the sisters’ road to success. ( )the brief introduction to the sisters. ( )the background of their growing up. ( )the sisters’ tennis training and study.

Match the headings with paragraghs ( )the sisters’ road to success. ( )the brief introduction to the sisters. ( )the background of their growing up. ( )the sisters’ tennis training and study. 4 1 2 3

Choose a best title for the text Tennis stars- Williams sisters 2 1 How to become a tennis star 3 5 Tennis is my favorite sport 4

Speaking: How to describe Your Description positive negative A: I think Yao Ming is a brilliant player. He is very fast and skillful. B: Yes, I agree. I think he’s very smart./ I don’t agree with you. In my opinion, he is a little weak. brilliant, fast, skillfull, smart, strong, useful…… awful, boring, lazy, slow, terrible, useless, weak……

Free talk: What are the advantages and disadvantages of being sports stars? advantages and disadvantages: In my opinion….. I think…… Personally,….. ……………………………….

Sum up To be very successful sport stars, people must make great effort, maybe they suffered from a lot of pain, but they succeeded at last, like Liu xiang . So if you want to be a successful person, you should learn the spirit from them, to face the challenge, to challenge yourselves, can you make it ?

Homework ① Surf online to find out more information about your favourite sports star, and make a poster for him/her ②Prepare the grammar for next period.

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