1. Unit 6 Be a Champion!
Lesson 34
Modern Olympics

2. 教学重点：
介绍奥林匹克运动会的发展及现状
关于奥运的新词汇的掌握
教学难点：
event用法的掌握

3. Think about it!
1. What do you think is the same in every Olympics?
2. What’s your favourite Olympic sport?
3. Do you think the Olympics are important?
Why or why not?

4. Olympics Olympic sport Medals When was the first Olympics?
Amazing Olympic
athletes
When did the modern
Olympics start?

5. Five rings = Five continents
Africa
Europe
America
Asia
Oceania

6. volleyball
football
ping-pong
race
diving
shooting
swimming
tennis
badminton

7. bronze medal
silver medal
gold medal

8. Amazing Olympic athletes

9. Quick Quiz!
Did women compete in the ancient Olympics?
At the first ancient Olympics, there was only one sport. What was it?
How many countries sent athletes to the 2004 Athens Olympics?
How many athletes competed at the 2004 Olympics?
How many sports did the 2004 Olympics have?
No, women did not compete.
The sprint.
Two hundred and two countries sent athletes to the 2004 Olympics.
More than eleven thousand athletes competed.
It had twenty-eight different sports.

10. Dig In
There are also the Paralympic Games, which have been held alongside every Olympics since It grew from a small gathering of British World War II veterans in 1948 to one of the largest sporting events of the 21st century. Did you know there are also Winter Olympics and Special Olympics?

11. 许海峰
Let’s know and remember him!

12. Bob Beamon
A hero in long jump!

13. 知识讲解

14. event [i'vent]
n. 事件, 大事, 事情, 事项, 事例 [pl. ]时事, 时局 ; 时态; 故障 偶然事件, 可能发生的事 (相互)作用, 现象, 活动, 经历 (比赛)项目; 竞赛
【律】诉讼[判决]的结果，结局
冲程, 距离 核转变[变化], 衰变

15. 相关短语
prophesy [wise] after the event 事后诸葛亮 current events 时事 neutron event 中子相互作用 field and track events 田径赛 The National Day and the International Labour Day are
great events in China. 国庆节和国际劳动节在中国是重大的节日。

16. Exercise

17. The first Olympics Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
We call the first Olympic Games
the “ancient” Olympics. “Ancient”
means very very ____. The ancient
Olympic Games began in ______
in ______ BC.
old
Greece
776
1. Did women compete in the ancient Olympics?
No, women did not compete.
2. At the first ancient Olympics, there was only one sport.
What was it?
The sprint.

18. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
We call today’s Olympic Games the “modern” Olympics. What does “modern” mean? “Modern”,
“_____” and “_____” mean the _____ thing. The modern Olympics
started in Athens, Greece in _______.
now
today
same
1896
1. How many countries sent athletes to the 2004 Olympics?
Two hundred and two countries sent athletes to the 2004 Olympics.
2. How many athletes compete at the 2004 Olympics?
More than eleven thousand athletes competed.
3. How many sports did the 2004 Olympics have?
It had twenty-eight different sports.

19. HOMEWORK 1. Surf the internet to find out more about the Olympic.
2. Play the game in “LET’S DO IT!” part.
3. Do the exercises in your workbook.

20. SEE YOU