2. Lesson 2 Swimming for Gold Swimming for Gold

3. Fill in each blank with the proper word from the brackets: 1.The ancient Olympic Games _________(begin) in __________(Greek) in 776 BC. 2.Xu Haifeng ______(win) China’s first Olympic medal in __________(shoot). 3.He jumped an _________(amaze) 8.8 metres. 4.The news is really __________(amaze). 5.Many foreign friends are _______ at the __________ development of China. 6.He ______(break) the record for the long jump last year. 7.If you are ____________(twenty), you can’t get a medal. 8.How many ___________(country) sent athletes to the 2004 Athens Olympics? 9.Did ________(woman) compete in the ancient Olympics? began Greece won shooting amazing amazed broke women amazing twentieth countries

4. Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions: 1.Have you ever watched the Olympics ______ TV? 2.The ancient Olympic Games began ______ Greece _______ 776 BC. 3._______ the 1968 Olympics ______ Mexico City, American Bob Beamon won the gold medal ______ the long jump. 4.Nobody broke his record ______ twenty-three years. 5.______ the opening event _______ the 1984 Olympics, he won a gold medal ________ shooting. 6.______ the Olympics, athletes compete ______ medals. 7.Did women compete _______ the ancient Olympics? on in At/Inin for Atof in At/In for in

5. 同义句转换，每空一词： 1.The modern Olympic Games started in Athens, Greece in 1896. The modern ________ started in Athens, Greece in 1896. 2. What does “download” mean? What _______ you mean ________ “download”? What’s the ___________ of “download”? 3. How many sports did the 2004 Olympics have? How many sports _________ there _________ the 2004 Olympic __________? Olympics doby at/inwere Games meaning

6. A task: Learn to speak English In a small group, talk about the Olympic Games. And then write something about the Olympics. the first(ancient) Olympics the modern Olympics the Olympic motto the 2004 Olympics the 2008 Olympics the Olympic sports the amazing Olympic athletes

7. Think about it! 1.What Olympic sports do you know? List the sports. 2.Have you ever gone swimming? 3.Where do you like to swim? 4.Can you tell us something about China’s gold medals in swimming? running swimming soccer basketball volleyball badminton hockey baseball gymnastic the high jump the long jump …

8. Read and answer the questions: 1.Who is Zhuang Yong? 2.What did Zhuang Yong win? 3.Why is Zhang Yong mentioned here as an amazing Olympic athlete? 4.What is a 100-metre race? 5.What do you think of the race? the women’s 100-metre freestyle a very close race

9. Read and answer the questions: 5. How did the Chinese spectators feel when Zhuang Yong won the race? 6. Who did Zhuang Yong catch up with? 7. What did Zhuang Yong also win? 8. When did Zhuang Yong begin swimming? 9. Who are the four Chinese women to win Olympic medals in swimming at the 1992 Olympic games? Jenny Thompson

10. Language notes: 1. Zhuang Yong swam her way to a gold medal today. swim one’ way to a gold medal “ 奋力往前游，勇夺金牌 ” 动词 + 后缀 er(or) 表示做某事的人或完成某事的物品 swimmer worker teacher cooker farmer thinker driver dancer singer … inventor visitor spectator …. 2. Zhuang Yong won the women’s 100-metre freestyle with a time of 54.64 seconds. 3. In a 100-metre race, the swimmers go up the pool once and down the pool once. go up … go down …

11. Language notes: 4. They go as fast as they can. 他们尽全力冲刺。 5. It was a very close race. close adj. “ 势均力敌的，难分胜负的 ” adj. “ 在空间或时间上接近的 ” adj. “ 亲密的，亲近的 ” 6. When it was over, no one knew who had won. 7. It seemed that Zhuang Yong and Jenny Thompson, an American swimmer had finished at the same time. It seems(seemed) (to sb.) that … It seems to me that she is right. a close race a close match Our school is close to a post office. She is a close friend of mine.

12. Language notes: 8. …, the Chinese spectators at the swimming pool jumped up and down, cheering. up and down “ 上上下下 ” 9. Before the Olympics, her best time had been slower than Miss Thompson’s. 10. But today Zhuang Yong caught up with the American swimmer. catch up with … “ 赶上 …… （有时有超过的意思） ” keep up with … “ 跟上 …… ，与 …… 同步前进 ” cheering 作伴随状语 相当于 and cheered The little boy sat in the corner, crying loudly. You can’t keep up with me, to say nothing about catching up with me.

13. Language notes: 11. She is one of the four Chinese women to win Olympic medals in swimming at the 1992 Olympic Games. 12. The others are Qian Hong, Lin Li and Yang Wenyi. the others = the other Chinese women There are twenty students in Sally’s class. Twelve are boys; The others are girls. Some students are in the classroom, and others are on the playground. the others “ 其他的人或物 ” 指具体某范围中去处掉某 个或某部分后剩余的其他部分。 others “ 其他一些人或物 ” 是一种泛指，没有说明具 体范围，常与 some 连用，形成 some ……, others ……

14. Translate the following structures and expressions: 1. 一场势均力敌的比赛 _______________________ 2. 在女子 100 米比赛中 __________________________ 3. 同时 __________________________________ 4. 创造世界记录 _________________________ 5. 赶上 _________________________________ 6. 跳上跳下 _____________________________ a very close race in the women’s 100-metre race at the same time set (up) a world record catch up with … jump up and down

15. Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions or adverbs: 1.Zhuang Yong won the first gold medal _______ the Olympic swimming event. 2.Zhuang Yong’s best time had been slower than Miss Thompson’s _________ the Olympics. 3.Zhuang Yong won the women’s 100 metre freestyle ______ a time of 54.64 seconds. 4.Yang Wenyi broke the world record ________ the women’s 50-metre race. 5.The Chinese spectators ________ the swimming pool jumped _______ and ________, cheering. in before with for at up down

16. Correct the mistakes: 1.She won the women’s 100-metres freestyle with a time of 54.64 seconds. 2.Before the Olympics, her best time had been slower than Miss Thompson. 3.She is one of the four Chinese woman to win Olympic medals in swimming at the 1992 Olympic Games. 4.He seems that he is ill. 5.She is going to compete in a Olympic swimming event tomorrow. 6.Some people think it is boring, the others think it is exciting. 7.They ran as faster as they could. 8.The 2008 Olympic Games is going to be held in Beijing. 9.We all knew that the team has won the match. ________ ____________ Miss Thompson’s 100-metre ______ women ___It __ an _________ others _____fast __ are ___had

17. A task: Learn to speak English With a partner, summarize( 总结 ) the information about Zhuang Yong and the other swimmers. Write it down and then learn to speak English.