1. 冀教版　八年级下册
Lesson 31：Don’t
Fall, Danny !

2. champion 冠军 set a new world record champion set
word and phrase
champion 冠军
set a new
world record
创造一项新的世界记录
At the London Olympic Games, Ye Shiwen
became the Olympic swimming ________
after winning the 400 meters individual medley. She also ______a new world record in the 400 meters individual medley.
champion
set

3. If you are the c___________ in the Olympics, all of your r__________
word
relative
亲戚，亲属
If you are the c___________ in the
Olympics, all of your r__________
will be proud of you.
champion
relatives
Your uncles / aunts / cousins/ grandparents/…are all your relatives.

4. Danny wants to be a champion, too.
stand on one foot
一只脚站立
What’s Danny
doing ? Why ?
He is standing
on one foot.
Because he wants
to set a new world record.
Will he succeed ?

5. Listen and write true (T) or false (F)
1 Danny dreams about breaking the
record for standing on one foot.
( )
2 Jenny will have chicken for supper. T
pizza F

6. Read the lesson and finish the exercises.
1 How does Danny feel while
standing on one foot ?
2 ______ has a book of world record.
3 The record of standing on one foot is
seven hours and fifty-seven minutes. (T/F)
4 The gathering is more important than
a world record. (Translate it into Chinese.)

7. 2 ______ has a book of world record.
1 How does Danny feel while standing on one foot ?
He is so tired.
Text:
Jenny: Danny, why are you standing on one foot?
Danny: I want to set a new record. I will be the champion of standing on one foot!
Jenny: And how do you feel?
Danny: I’m so tired! How long will I have to do this?
2 ______ has a book of world record.
Brian
Jenny: Brian is coming. We can ask him.
He has a book of world record.

8. 3 The record of standing on one foot is seven hours and fifty-seven minutes. (T/F)
Text:
Brian : (He looks in his book.)
The record is eight hours. Don’t stop, Danny. In seven hours and fifty-seven minutes, you’ll be the champion!
4 The gathering is more important than a world record. (Translate it into Chinese.)
聚会要比世界纪录重要的多。

9. Read the passage quickly and try to discuss more
exercises like ones above.
Ye Shiwen was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on March 1, She began swimming when she was only six years old.
Ye is not only China’s youngest swimmer at the 2012 London Olympic Games, but also the fastest. She won two gold medals: one in Women’s 200m Individual Medley, and the other in 400m Individual Medley gold medal. She even broke the world record in the 400m event!
China, and perhaps the whole world, is proud of Ye. But the swimming champion is very humble谦逊的. She says that her success comes from hard training. “I am very young and I am sure I will get better.” Ye says.
We are so proud of you, Ye!

10. Let’s look at another world record---
Hula-hoop
【‘huːləh’uːp】
Do you know who keeps the world
record ?

11. Watch a video

12. Try to talk about Jin Linlin according to the passage about Ye Shiwen.
Jin Linlin: dancer
be born in 1988, Harbin
began playing Hula-hoop :8
be interested in
record: Date:
Hula-hoop: 305
Time: 23seconds

13. Homework :
1.Finish the writing.
2.Find some interesting records
and talk about them.