1. Lesson Three
Sports Stars
Li Yue

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

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

4. Table tennis player
Deng Yaping

6. Venus Williams
Serena Williams
The Williams sisters

7. Self-study
Scanning and Skimming
Fill in the blanks

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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……

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

24. 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 ?

25. 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.

26. Thank you