八年级上Module 3 Sports.Unit 2 This year we practise more carefully.

Module 3 Sporting life Unit 2 This year we are training more carefully. Step 1 Ask and answer Do you like sports? What’s your favourite sport? Who’s your favourite player? They trained very hard for the gold medals. Now let’s enjoy a piece of video to see how top basketball players train. play against beat careless fan club cheer…on train coach To skim the text on sports and understand its main idea 2. To learn some key words and useful expressions 3. To describe and games, using the comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs（形容词、副词比较级） Objectives:目标 略读 Read the passage and do the exercises. (1) I am going to school to _________ . A. study lessons B. have a party C. play football D. play basketball (2)It is more difficult to practice in _______. A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter Step 2 Reading 1.Skimming 略读 Read the passage and complete the table. as early as we can harder usual more difficult pleased We have time to warm up. The other team beat us last year. This year we want to do better. The days are short and the weather is cold. We are playing better as a team now. 2. Careful reading What Why 1. We arrive __________________. 2.We are training ______ than ______. 3.It is ____________ to practise in winter. 4. Our coach is ______. Complete the passage with the words in the box. against chance coach practice short usual We all know (1)_______ makes perfect. But it is more difficult to practise in winter because the days are (2) ______ and it is cold. practice short 3. Reading after the tape The term is training harder than (3) _____. Their (4) ______ is pleased with them. They are going to play (5) ______ a team from another school next week, and they have a good (6) ______ of winning. usual coach against chance Put the words in the box into pairs with opposite meanings. badly carefully carelessly difficult early easy late