Presenter: Li Xiangli

Class: Class16 Senior 1

Step1 Lead-in

Look at the pictures and tell the names of the stars.

basketball players

Iverson

football players

Beckham

Men’s hurdle champion

balance beam champion

table tennischampion

badmintonchampion

Sports Stars

Key Words

• Positive Words:

brilliant, fast, skilful, smart, strong,

useful,

Negative Words:

awful, boring, lazy, slow, terrible, useless, weak

Useful sentences to express your opinions:

• I agree (with you),

• Yes, you're right.

• I’m sorry, but I don't agree.

• In my opinion…

• Personally, I think…

Step2: Speaking Sporting hero/heroine

• Example A: In my opinion, Ronaldo is a brilliant player. He is very fast and skilful.

B: I agree. I think he’s very smart.

Venus Williams&Serena Williams

Venus &Serena Williams --World-famous

Tennis players

They study design in college.

Venus Williams Serena Williams

Step 3: Skimming: Read the text quickly and match the headings with each paragraph

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

A. Training and study

D. Family background

B. Success and achievements

C. Brief introduction

How to choose the best title for the text?

To choose the best title for the text, we should pay much attention to the firstparagraph , in which ,often,the main idea of the text is talked about.

SerenaVenus

Find the best title for the text:

A. Success and achievements

B. Training and StudyC. Champion Sisters D. The Background of Two Sisters

Champion Sisters

Step4: Careful-reading

Read the text carefully and complete the following chart

1 sisters, both tennis champions

2 born in a poor and dangerous areas--- they have never1.______________since they moved.

3 Training

and

Study

2.________hard by father to3. each other; taught by mother and they4______________________at home while5 careers; they

6. working

in design after their tennis career7.________________.

4 Success and Achievements

An amazing road to success: Venus8. Wimbledon and the US Open twice; Serena continued9____________and10___________________ ;in 1999 and 2002, won the US Open; in 2002 and 2003, was the women’s singles at Wimbledon.

headingParagraph

Key information

Brief Introduction

Background looked back

trained compete against

completed high schooldeveloping tennis

have expressed a keen interest in

come to an end.

has won

to improve make progress

look back: to think about sth in t

he past

look back: to think about sth in t

he past

Word Bank

The father trains his son kickboxing every weekend.

Word Bank:to teach a

person or an animal the skills for a

particular job or activity.

:to teach a person or an animal the skills for a

particular job or activity.

Word Bank

The boy is very interested in PC games.

He has a keen interest in PC games.

have show an interest in

express

Word Bank

Word Bank

John has finished the race.

The race has come to an end.

Word Bank

译：会议终于结束了。_____________________________.

译：会议终于结束了。_____________________________.The meeting came to an end at last.The meeting came to an end at last.

Word Bank

He is making progress in his lessons and he has improved his grade.

to become better

Word Bank

: development, especially

towards a better situation

: development, especially

towards a better situation

Step 5: Post-reading Listen to the tape and complete the summary.• Venus and Serena Williams are both tennis 1._______

____. They were born in an poor and dangerous area which was full of drugs and 2.__________. Richard, their father was very 3._________with them and 4._________them hard to 5.___________against each other.

• Both sisters are studying design at college now. They have 6.___________a keen interest in working in design after their tennis 7._________ come to an end. The sisters’ road success has been 8.___________ . It was in 1996 that Venus played in a big 9._________ for the first time. Serena has continued to make fantastic 10.____________.

champions

violencestrict trainedcompete

expressed career

s amazingevent

progress

Step6 : Interview Group-work: Work in groups of four to prepare for an interview. Imagine two group members are Venus Williams and Serena Williams. And the other two act as their father and mother. The teacher acts as a reporter from CCTV 5 and interview them based on the given clues.

Supported Clues: 1. Williams’ father:

• ①When did you train Venus and Serena Williams sisters?

• ② How did you treat your daughters?

2. Williams’ mother:

• ①What did you do to help your daughters complete their high school?

• ②When developing their tennis careers, did you give up their formal knowledge learning( 正规的知识学习 )?

3. Venus Williams:• ①What kind of family background are you fro

m? And when did you move to a safer place?

• ②Who helped you to succeed?

• ③ How do you get on with each other at home?

• ④Which field did you express a keen interest in? What was your future plan?

• ⑤ How many awards( 奖项 )did you win? What are they?

• ⑥ In your opinion, what leads to your success?

4. Serena Williams:

• ①What kind of family background are you from? And when did you move to a safer place?

• ②Who helped you to succeed?

• ③ How do you get on with each other at home?

• ④Which field did you express a keen interest in? What was your future plan?

• ⑤ How many awards( 奖项 )did you win? What are they?

• ⑥ In your opinion, what leads to your success?

Step7: Voice your opinionWhat are the advantages of

being sports stars?

Brainstorming

Sports Stars

exciting wonderful

popular brilliantworld-famous

wealthy fantastic

1.No pains, no gains.一份耕耘，一份收获。2. Diligence is the mother of success.• 勤奋是成功之母。3. An idle youth, a needy age.• 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。 4. Never do things by halves.• 做事不要半途而废。

Proverbs:

Homework

1. Find more information about Williams sisters on the Internent.

2. Finish Ex6, P26.

3. Write a passage about Zhang Yining based on the given information.

Homework Write a passage about the table tennis player--- Zhang Yining according to the following information.

姓名 籍贯 生日 身高 体重张怡宁 北京 1980.10.5 168cm 53kg

主要事迹

六岁开始打球， 1993 年进入国家队。她训练刻苦，打法独特。在 2004 年雅典奥运上获得女单、女双冠军。2005 年 3 月，荣获中国十佳劳伦斯冠军奖最佳女运动员奖； 2005 年 5 月获得第 48 届世乒赛女单、女双冠军她为我国赢得了巨大的荣誉。

参考词汇 : 1. 女单 women’s singles

女双 women’s double

2. 世乒赛 World Table Tennis Championships

Thank you for your

attention!