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How popular is cycling in your hometown ?

How popular is cycling in your hometown ?. Cheap Environment-friendly Healthy Convenient … …. Reading The Tour de France. Skinning. Find the contents mentioned in the passage. Culture. History. Deaths. Description. Classification jerseys ( 运动衫分类 ). Prize money.

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How popular is cycling in your hometown ?

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  1. How popular is cycling in your hometown ? Cheap Environment-friendly Healthy Convenient … …

  2. Reading The Tour de France

  3. Skinning Find the contents mentioned in the passage . Culture History Deaths Description • Classification • jerseys • (运动衫分类) Prize money

  4. What’s the style of the writing ? A. Critical (评论的,批评的) B. Narrative (叙述性的) C. Subjective (主观的) D. Objective (客观的) B.

  5. When did it start? Where did it go around? Who won\wins it ? What are special honors? Why is it so popular ? How did it enjoy a good reputation ?

  6. Development Rules Rules History History Special honors (rules\history ) Sportsmanship

  7. Describe the rules be held in July, consist of , follow a clockwise route , neighboring countries, complete … in the shortest overall time

  8. The Tour de France is the world's best-known bicycle race. _______in 1903 and run every year excluding(不包括) the world wars, it is nowadays a 23-day, 21-stage road race usually covering more than 3,500 kilometres(2,200 mi). The route, which _______from year to year, ________(沿路走) a circuit(环行) around most areas of France, and often ____________neighbouring countries. The race ______________stages from one town to another, each of which is an individual race. The time taken to__________each stage is added to a cumulative(累积的) total for each rider, to ________the outright winner (someone who has definitely and easily won )at the end of the Tour. Started varies traces passes into is broken into complete decide Description

  9. classsification jerseys Yellow jersey Special honors (Rules) Green jersey

  10. Polka dot jersey The "King of the Mountains " wears a white jersey with red dots (maillot à pois rouges), referred to as the "polka dot jersey" Michael Rasmussen 2005 TdF Stage 20 St Etienne ITT.

  11. Discussion • Which paragraphs have • impressed you most ? Why ? Sportsmanship : a spirit of honest fair play , esp. in sports. It reflects Unity, Friendship , Progress , Harmony, Participation

  12. Discussion 2. What can you infer from the saying in France in Paragraph one ?

  13. The combination of endurance(耐疲劳度 ) and strength needed to complete the Tour led the New York Times to say in 2006 that the "Tour de France is the most physiologically (生理上)demanding of athletic events." The effort was compared to "running a marathon several days a week for nearly three weeks", while the total elevation of the climbs was compared to "climbing three Everests(珠穆朗玛峰 )." The New York Times

  14. breathtaking, attractive, impressive , magic, splendid(壮丽的), wonderful(极好的, 好极了 ) terrific(极好的 ,了不起的 ), etc.

  15. Lance-Armstrong-TdF2004

  16. Lance Armstrong • Tour de France • 2005-07-09 • Lance Armstrong (USA) in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 (seven consecutive-连续的 years).

  17. What can we learn from Lance Armstrong? We learned that during our lifetime, we may run into many difficulties. When we come across the problems, we shouldn’t try to escape. Instead, we should learn to face reality and solve the problems. As long as we overcome the difficulties and never give up, we will achieve our goals and succeed. Moreover, we all have dreams in our heart. As long as we insist on and makeunremitting (不懈的) efforts, we will make our dreams come true one day.

  18. Proverb & oration 1. The will to persevere(坚持 )is often the difference between the failure and success . 2. If you want to get somewhere, you have to know where you want to go and how you want to get there, then never, never, never give up .

  19. The Tour de France

  20. Homework Work in pairs and write a short passage within 120 words to introduce the Tour de France , trying to use the following words and phrases . ( the most famous cycling race, breathtaking, complete, consist of, follow a clockwise route, neighboring countries, in the shortest overall\ total time, catch on, keep track of , gain a reputation for , catch up, take advantage of etc.)

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