Unit 3 Looking good, feeling good ----Word power

Unit 3 Looking good, feeling good Word power Types of sports

1.Are you interested in sports? 2. What kind of sports do you like best ? 3. Are there any sports clubs in your school? 4. Have you ever joined one of them? If not, are you planning to join one?

1. Read the diary by Zhou Ling and summarize the types of sports she mentioned. 2. Talk about which school clubs Zhou Ling can join and list some of the reasons. Practice Part A:

Nov.1, 2005, Tuesday Sunny Tomorrow is the open day for the sports clubs at school. There are many new clubs. Now that I’m in Senior High, I can join clubs like the archery club or the gymnastics club. I was never very good at these two sports so maybe I will choose the martial arts club. Hmm, maybe I don’t want to get hurt. I think I would like to join the folk dancing club as I quite like dancing. There is also the skating club. What about baseball or softball? Everyone is playing these new sports now. it may be fun. Oh! I really don’t knowarcherygymnasticsmartial arts folk dancing skatingbaseball softball which sport to choose. I will decide tomorrow.

archery 射箭

gymnastics 体操

martial arts 武术

folk dancing 民间舞蹈

Skating 溜冰

baseball 棒球

softball 垒球

Look at part B and try to know something about the following sports.

wrestling hockey

cycling ice dancing

surfing running

golf hurdling boating

skiing horse-riding

table tennis speed skating

high jump long jump

swimming diving

shot put sailing javelin

wrestling basketball ice hockey ice dancing

table tennis Shot putsailingweightlifting

archery long jump tennisfootball

shooting diving badminton

skiing speed skating gymnastics high jump

hockey baseball golf

runningjavelinvolleyball

Word power Look at your textbooks Fill in the blanks of part C and D basketball, volleyball, football, baseball aerobics, squash, swimming table tennis, tennis, badminton

1. Read and complete the to Amy. Part C Hi Amy, I’m very happy to hear that you are getting out of hospital soon. You must be very excited! I know that you are not strong after your operation, so please do some of these exercises.

If you want to get strong and have some fun with your friends, you could try _________, ________, _______ softball or _______. The last one is not popular in China, but I know lots of Canadians and Americans like it. It sounds fun. These are all good team sports and will help you build up your strength and basketball volleyball football baseball

you will meet lots of people at the same time. If you like sports that you can do on your own, then try ________, ________ or ___________. Some of these are very tiring, so you may want to keep these for next year. Of course, maybe you just want to have aerobicsshooting weightlifting

some fun and exercise with only one of your friends. How about trying __________, _______, _____ or fencing? Remember to take it slowly at first and you will build your strength up quickly. Love, Zhou Ling badmintonboxingtennis

1. ___________ is a game which is usually played in the US by 2 teams of 9 people. Each player tries to hit the ball and then run around in the field. 2. The first gold medal that China won in the Olympics is in Men’s ___________. 3. Wushu, which is a Chinese ___________, is trying to get into the Olympics. 4. In _________, people will compete in three different sports, usually swimming, cycling and running. 5. When playing _ ________, you kick a ball and there are 10 other people in your team. 6. Michael Jordan, O’neal and Yao Ming are _____________ players. 7. Tian Liang and Guo Jingjing won gold medals for _________ in the 10th National Games. Baseball shooting martial art triathlon football basketball diving

Put the names of these sports into the correct column. Indoors Outdoors boxing fencing gymnastics beach volleyball skiing baseball boxing beach volleyball fencing gymnastics skiing baseball

Homework Try to find more names of sports. Do exercises on P100 in your workbook. Talk about different kinds of indoor and outdoor sports.