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Welcome to Beijing!

Welcome to Beijing!. The 29th Olympic Games will be held in Beijing this year. Do you know some famous athletes in China ?Why are they famous?. Duli. Guojingjing. Liuxiang. Super Athletes. Who runs fastest in the world?. Asafa Powell. Can he run 100 metres in 8 seconds?. Asafa Powell.

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Welcome to Beijing!

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  1. Welcome to Beijing!

  2. The 29th Olympic Games will be held in Beijing this year.

  3. Do you know some famous athletes in China ?Why are they famous?

  4. Duli

  5. Guojingjing

  6. Liuxiang

  7. Super Athletes

  8. Who runs fastest in the world? Asafa Powell

  9. Can he run 100 metres in 8 seconds? Asafa Powell

  10. Will LiuXiang break the record again?

  11. Predict • How can he or she make it? • Will they make it by working hard or ………?

  12. Scanning 1.Find the general idea of the text. 2.Try to think how many parts we can divide our text into. 3.How many sportsmen does the passage mention?

  13. What is the general idea? a) The athletes who took part in the first Olympic Games are not as fast as athletes today. b) Doping is a huge problem in the sporting world. c) The present and future of the sporting world is being seriously and negatively affected by doping and gene-therapy. d) Ben Johnson, Florence Griffith and Floyd Landis have all shocked the world by their speed.

  14. Match the main ideas with the paragraphs. Part 1 (para1-2) Part 2 (p3,4,5,6) Part 3 (para7) Part 4 (para8) Gene therapy The Olympic spirit Doping ‘s effect on sport Introduction of the world record

  15. How many sportsmen does the passage mention? Who are related to doping? 5 sportsmen Maurice Greene Florence Grifflth Marion Jones Ben Johnson and Floyd Landis Ben Johnson and Floyd Landis are related to doping

  16. Maurice Greene 100 metres----9.79 seconds

  17. Marion Jones

  18. Detailed reading Now let’s read the passage carefully and answer some questions.

  19. 1. Why would the athletes today have broken records if they’d taken part in the first Olympic Games? Athletes are stronger and faster today than they were during the time of the first Olympic Games. 2. What reasons are given for improved performance? Better equipment, training, diet.

  20. 3.What is doping and why is it illegal? Doping is using performance-enhancing drugs and it is illegal because it is cheating.

  21. It will cause the health problems.

  22. 4. How did the drugs affect world records in the 1980s? Ben Johnson was caught taking drugs when he broke the 100m world record in the 1988 Olympics and no one knows if Florence Griffith was taking drugs when she set the women’s 100m record the same year.

  23. Ben Johnson was caught taking drugs in the 1988 Olympics

  24. Floyd Landis When Floyd Landis won the Tour de France, his championship was stripped from him when he failed the doping test after the race was over.

  25. Marion Jones Recently ,she admitted she took drugs and returned the Olympic medals to the Olympic Committee.

  26. 5.Why are drug tests at sporting events often one step behind? Drugs tests are only developed after the new drugs are being used. This means that there is a time period when people are using the new drugs and no one knows about them.

  27. 6. What would the effect of gene-therapy be on sport? It would create super athletes who could do the 100m in just 8 seconds for example, and no one would know if they’d had gene-therapy or not. This would spoil the spirit of sport. 7. What is the Olympic spirit? The spirit of competition emphasizes taking part rather than winning.

  28. Summary: Two things to worry about when it comes to breaking records 1 .__________ Doping Gene-therapy 2.___________

  29. Doping The sports world doesn’t tolerate doping as it is a form of 4._______ Doping creates 2.________, but it also causes 3._________. supreme athletes serious health problems cheating 6.__________ are developed all the time so it is not easy to 7.____________ Doping is a problem not only in 5._______ but also in part of every sport. New drugs athletics catch athletes using illegal drugs

  30. Gene-therapy Medical For a 8____________ purposes, Scientists have found how To change people’s gene, And in the future a generation Of 9_____________with enhanced Genes might be created. Sports stars Both doping and gene-therapy violate ____________________________. the Olympic Spirit

  31. Discussion. What do you think of the Olympic spirit and the doping in the sports? Can the athletes break the World’s records, using different ways?

  32. What is the Olympic Spirit ? understanding, friendship, unity and fair play.

  33. Doping violates the Olympic Spirit!

  34. Doping

  35. Thank you! See you in Beijing!

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