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Teaching objectives
At the end of the lesson
Thinking ability:
Students will be able to understand the structure of the text and the way author organizes it logically by understanding of conceptual words.
Help students recognize the meaning of football or sports to humans
2. Language ability:
Students will be able to learn some terms of football and express rules of it.
Students will be able to learn some expressions to express the reasons for popular sports.
3. Cultural awareness:
Help students have a deep understanding of global popularity of football.
4. Learning ability:
To develop students’ interest in learning English, help them gain more English resources.
A Game for
the
01/05/2021
World
Facts about football
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Background information
Skimming
Scanning
Think and share
Assignment
Talk about what you think these things represent in a football game.
11: eleven players in each team
90: two 45-minute halves
yellow card: a warning
red card: out
gloves: goal-keeper’s gloves
C: captain
hat trick: a player scores three goals in a single football game
corner flag: to tell if the ball crosses the touchline
History of football
2
Background information
Scanning
Think and share
Assignment
Even though as early as the Waring States period (475- 221 B. C.), Chinese were playing a sport called cuju, which is considered to be the prototype (原型)of football, it is usually believed that modem football originated in the UK in the 19h century.
Back in medieval times(中世纪), people in towns and villages played “folk football ”games according to rules made by themselves. Therefore, different regions may have had different rules and the games could be really violent (暴力的) and destructive in some places. As a result, folk football was on the edge of being banned and prohibited(禁止).
However, things started to change when in 1843, students from the University of Cambridge made an attempt to standardize(使标准化)the rules of football. When they graduated and joined