Word power Types of sports

Brainstorming Are there any school clubs in your school? Have you ever joined one? 2. Are you interested in sports clubs? Are you planning to join one?

Practice Part A: 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.

Pair work Discussion 1. Are you interested in sports? What’s your favorite? 2. Can you name some types of sports you know?

Part B: 3. Look at the following pictures and describe the sports . points to mention: a. the number of team members b. how to play c. the rules for it d. the instructions for beginners 4. Decide which sports in the pictures you would like to play.

wrestling basketball ice hockey ice dancing

table tennis Shot put sailing weightlifting

long jump archery tennis football

shooting diving badminton

speed skating gymnastics skiing high jump

hockey golf baseball

volleyball javelin running

Fill in the blanks with the names of sports. Words focus Fill in the blanks with the names of sports. 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. Baseball

2. Sang Lan is a happy girl, even after she got hurt seriously in a _________ competition. 3. As is known to all, Wang yifu is good at men’s ________. 4. ______ is a sport in which people play on lakes which have a thick layer of ice. gymnastics shooting Skiing

5. You will be attracted by the traditional music and _________ in Tibet or in Yun’nan Province. 6. Wushu, which is a Chinese _________ , is trying to get into the Olympics. 7. In ________, people will compete in three different sports, usually swimming, cycling and running. folk dance martial art triathlon

8. When doing ________, you will not only enjoy the beautiful music, but also strengthen the heart and lungs. 9. _________ is a sport in which the athletes run 42,195 meters. 10. When playing _______, you kick a ball and there are 10 other people in your team. aerobics Marathon football

11. Wang Liqin is one of the best __________ players in the world. 12. The game in which there are 6 players in each team, who try to pat a ball over a net is ________. 13. Tiger Woods is one of the best ____ players in the world. He is from the US. table tennis volleyball golf

14. Michael Jordan and Yao Ming are _________ players. 15. Tian Liang and Guo Jingjing won the gold medals for _____ in the 10th National Games. basketball diving

Part C 1. Read and complete the e-mail to Amy. 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 aerobics shooting 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 badminton boxing tennis

2. What are the advantages of the sports according to Zhou Ling? Sports 1-4: They can make her get 　　 　　　　　strong and have some fun. Sports 5-7: They can be done on her 　　　　　own. Sports 8-10: They can make her have 　　　　　some fun and exercise with 　　　 　　　　　only one of her friends.

Topics for discussion Group work Group 1: What can we benefit from sports? Group 2: Say something about your favorite sport.

Group 3: Look at the body movements and guess the names of the sports. Group 4: Talk about some indoor sports.

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

Thank you