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Lesson Three Sports Stars. Li Yue. Hurdle player——Liu Xiang. Basketball player——Yao Ming. Football player—— David Backham. Diving player——Guo Jingjing. Table tennis player Deng Yaping. Venus Williams. Serena Williams. The Williams sisters. Self-study. Scanning and Skimming.
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Lesson Three Sports Stars Li Yue
Hurdle player——Liu Xiang Basketball player——Yao Ming
Football player—— David Backham Diving player——Guo Jingjing
Table tennis player Deng Yaping
Venus Williams Serena Williams The Williams sisters
Self-study Scanning and Skimming Fill in the blanks
Paragraph 1: Venus and Serena Williams are both _______. Paragraph 2: 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
tennis champions Paragraph 1: Venus and Serena Williams are both _______________. Paragraph 2: The sisters were born in ___________________ _____________. a poor and dangerous area of California
father 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. mother success well
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
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
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
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
come to an end 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. keen made progress looked back trained
Further reading Task 1 Task 2 fill in the table match the headings
11 3 In 1991,they moved to a safer area Both are studying design at college In 1999 and 2002, won the US Open. has won the Wimbledon and the US Open twice. In 2002and 2003, the women’s singles champion at Wimbledon
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.
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
1 3 2 4 5 Choose a best title for the text • Tennis stars- Williams sisters How to become a tennis star Tennis is my favorite sport
How to describe Speaking: 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……
Free talk: What are the advantages and disadvantages of being sports stars? • advantages and disadvantages: • In my opinion….. • I think…… • Personally,….. • ……………………………….
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 ?
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.