Unit 3 Sports and Fitness-Reading and Thinking

【学习目标】

1.To get basic information about Lang Ping and Jordan; read deeply

2.To understand why they can be called sports legends.

3.To understand the meaning of some languages in the context of the text, such as "time seems to stand still, graceful" and so on.

【学习重难点】

1. To learn to use different reading strategies such as skimming, scanning and summarizing.

2. To talk about your living legends.

【学习过程】

Step 1 Leading-in

Who are your favorite sports player? Do you like him/her? Why?

Step 2 Reading to get related information about the two sports star

1. Read quickly to answer students’ own questions and the following questions.

What contributions did Lang Ping make in volleyball?

What contributions did Michael Jordan make in basketball?

What’s special about Michael Jordan in his life?

Step 3 Understanding the title and the lead paragraph

Answer the following questions.

1: Why do you think the author chooses to write these two sports stars?

2: What does “living legend” mean?

3: What are the standards or requirements to be chosen as a living legend of sports star?

Step 4 Getting detailed information about Lang Ping

1. Read to answer the following questions.

Is Lang Ping a master in her area? How do you know that?

What good examples does Lang Ping set for others?

2. Focus on the story about Lang Ping.

Lang Ping’s determination was tested. What happened to her?

Was the challenge big? How do you know?  How did she solve it?

What can we learn about Lang Ping from the sentence “She had met difficulties before” mean?

What can we learn about Lang Ping from the sentence “She knew her young player could win if they worked together as a team.”?

3. Sum up the information about Lang Ping with the table

Step 5: Exploring detailed information about Michael Jordan

1. Read the paragraph of Michael Jordan and complete the following table.

Now read and find out why Michael Jordan is a living legend on your own by completing the following table.

2. Sort out detailed information about Michael Jordan.

How does the author describe his impressive skills?

How do you understand “time seemed to stand still”?

What does “graceful” mean?

Which sentence do you think best describes his mental strength?

Which words is important in the sentence in describing his mental strength? Why?

How do you understand “unique”?

What can we learn from Michael Jordan?

Step 6 Discussing and recommending

Recommend their own living legends of sports.

Work in groups to choose your own living legend of sports and give the reasons of your choice.  

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