The topic of this module is focused on sports and games. The purpose is to help the students know about sports games in different countries by asking them to read some passages about Olympic games around the world. The teacher should encourage the students to search and tell more information about sports by using comparison of multi-syllable adjectives. It’s necessary to ask the students to prepare some information about sports games around the world.

Objectives Students should be able to understand conversations about sports process information of comparison concerning sports talk about the sports one likes using comparative forms

Drilling: Activity 4( Acting out can be done). Key points ： be good at, more popular than Adjustment: More events of sports can be discussed, and adjectives used to describe sports must be mastered.

根据提示完成句子。 1.Beijing/ Cambridge / big _______________________________________ 2.An elephant /a monkey /strong ________________________________________ 3. Hong Kong / Dalian / busy _______________________________________ 4. London / Shanghai / cool / in summer ________________________________________ 5.Hong Kong / Beijing/ hot/ in summer? ______________________________________ 6. Chang Jiang /the River Thames /wide? _______________________________________ Beijing is bigger than Cambridge. An elephant is stronger than a monkey. Hong Kong is busier than Dalian. London is cooler than Shanghai. Is Hong Kong hotter than Beijing in summer? Is Chang Jiang wider than the River Thames?

Olympic / E5limpik/ adventure/ Ed5ventFE/ more /mR:/ dangerous / 5deindVErEs/ gymnastics / dVim5nAstiks/ ski /ski:/ popular / 5pRpjulE/ exciting / ik5saitiN/ tiring / 5tairiN/ unpopular / Qn5pRpjulE/ boring / 5bR:riN/ 奥林匹克的 激动人心的故事 更多的，更 危险的 体操 滑雪 流行的，受欢迎的 激动人心的 累人的 不受欢迎的 令人厌烦的

relax /ri5lAks / relaxing / ri5lAksiN/ safe /seif/ be good at （使）放松 放松的 安全的 擅长

gymnastics table tennis basketball difficult popular exciting Describe the pictures.

running cycling skiing cheap tiring dangerous Describe the pictures.

Picture a—3. Gymnastics is difficult. Picture b—1. Table tennis is popular. Picture c---2. Basketball is exciting. Picture d---5. Running is cheap. Picture e---4. Cycling is tiring. Picture f Skiing is dangerous. Match the sentences with the pictures.

Look at these opposite opinions. 正反 popular 流行的 unpopular 不流行的 difficult 难的 easy 容易的 cheap 便宜的 expensive 昂贵的 exciting 激动人心的 boring 乏味的 tiring 累人的 relaxing 令人放松的 dangerous 危险的 safe 安全的

Matching. dangerous difficult exciting expensive popular relaxing boring cheap easy safe tiring unpopular

Listen and read. Pre-listening questions: 1.What do you know about Olympic sport? 2. What sports are we Chinese good at? 3.What Olympic sport do you like? Why? We are good at gymnastics and table tennis. Possible answer: I like basketball. Because it’s exciting.

1. Chinese people are good at gymnastics, but we aren’t good at table tennis. 2. Daming thinks that table tennis is more popular than gymnastics. 3. Betty’s favourite sport is basketball. 4. Daming thinks that running is more boring than basketball. 5. Betty thinks that skiing is more dangerous than running and cycling. √ × × × √

GymnasticsBasketballRunningCycling Daming Betty √ √ √√ √ Listen and check.

1. Chinese people are very good at gymnastics. 中国人非常擅长体操。 be good at + n. doing sth. 擅长做某事 e.g. Tony is good at English. Maggie is good at playing the piano.

Table tennis is more popular than gymnastics. Running is more boring than basketball. Cycling is more relaxing than running. 由上面例句可以看出，当表达多音节形容词 形容词的比较级时，由 more + adj. + than + 比较的对象构成。

1. 我认为这个问题比那个难。 I think this problem is _________________ than that one. 2. 在中国，乒乓球比足球受欢迎。 Table tennis is ________________ football in China. 3. 篮球比跑步更让人激动吗？ ______ basketball __________ than running? 4. 体操和滑雪，哪一个更放松？ Which is ____________, gymnastics or skiing? more difficult more popular than Is more exciting more relaxing