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Instructional Design Unit 3 Sports and Fitness
Reading Living Legends
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Teaching objectives
After the class, students will be able to:
· Sort out factual information about Lang Ping's and Jordan’s achievements and understand why they can be called sports legends.
· Infer the spiritual qualities of these two legends by skimming and scanning the text;
· Apply the learned knowledge to talk and write their own sports legends and make a report by using them in a real situation;
· develop cultural confidence towards sports and deepen understanding of sportsmanship.
Teaching key points & Difficulties Key points:
· Sort out factual information about Lang Ping's and Jordan’s achievements and understand why they can be called sports legends.
· Infer the spiritual qualities of these two legends by skimming and scanning the text;
Difficulty:
· Apply the learned knowledge to talk and write their own sports legends and make a report by using them in a real situation;
· develop cultural confidence towards sports and deepen understanding of sportsmanship.
Teaching procedures ( 45 mins in total)
Ⅰ.Lead in (3 mins)
Activity 1: Thinking and Talking Learning and comprehending (3
mins) 【Individual work】
The teacher presents a letter about choosing some living legends of sports for a magazine to lead to today’s topic and make students think about
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the two standards of a living legend of sports: masters in their sports + set good examples.
T: Can you find out the two standards of a living legend of sports after reading the letter?
T: According to these two standards, can you recommend some living legends of sports for a magazine?
S: Liu Xiang; Su bingtian; Messi; Kobe, etc.【free talking】
T: Today’s class mainly talks about two living legends of sports, Lang Ping and Michael Jordan. What do you already know about them?
Athlete
What do you already know?
Lang
Ping
a volleyball coach “an Iron Hammer”
Michael
Jordan
a basketball player “Air Jordan”
Ⅱ. Pre-reading (5 mins)
Activity 2: Predicting------Learning and comprehending(5 mins)
【Individual work】
Focus more on pictures, titles, and subtitles and then predict the content and type of the text.
T: How can we predict the content before reading a new text?Before
reading, we can look at the pictures, titles and subtitles to predict the content.
S: pictures —— theme: sports; title & subtitle —— main idea: two
legendary athletes
T: Where is the text probably from?
A. A tour brochure B. A story-book
C. A sports magazine D. A science report
Ⅲ. While-reading (25 mins)
Activity 3: Fast reading------Learning and comprehending(5 mins)
【Individual work】
The teacher asks students to skim the text quickly and find out the information covered in the text.
T1: What’s the structure of this text?
T2: What’s the main idea of each text?
T3: What rhetorical device is used in the title of the text?
Activity 4: Detailed reading------Learning and comprehending(15 mins)【Pair work】
T asks students to find out the descriptions of Lang Ping according to
some questions.
T1: What are Lang Ping’s achievements?
master
player
coach person
总:What rhetorical device does the author use? - parallelism
T2: What examples does the writer use to describe Lang Ping?Set good examples
T asks students to find out the transitional sentence to describe Jordan and then answer some questions.
T3: How impressive were Jordan’s skills ?
T4: What kind of mental strength does Jordan have? =How unique was Jordan’s mental strength?
share success with others
总:What rhetorical device does the author use? – hyperbole(夸张)
Activity 5: Deep reading------Applying and practicing 【Pair work】 T asks Ss to find out the qualities of two legends and give the
supporting details according to the scaffolding provided.
T: What qualities do Lang Ping and Michael Jordan have? Give the supporting details.
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Scaffolding provided
Qualities & supporting details
Qualities
Supporting details
Lang Ping
determined
When the Chinese team was preparing for
the 2015 World Cup, her determination was tested.
persistent
Losing two important players was a big challenge, but Lang Ping didn't lose
heart.
Confident
& cooperative
she knew that her young players could win if they worked together as a team.
Jordan
brave to face failures
Jordan says that the secret to his success is learning from his failures. “I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But
I can't accept not trying.”
persistent
Losing games taught him to practice harder and never give up
Generous& kind
In life, Jordan has learnt to share his success with others.
helpful
The Boys and Girls Club which he started
in Chicago has been helping young people since 1996.
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Ⅳ. Post-reading (10mins)
Activity 6: Discussing and recommending------ Applying and practicing(5 mins)
Based on what you have learnt in the text, if you are a magazine editor, please choose a living legend of sports from the recommendation of students and give the reasons.
Requirement: a master in a certain sport+ set good examples for others
+provide supporting details
Scaffolding provided
Example
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Activity 7: Transferring Transferring and creating (5 mins)
In addition to living legends of sports, T asks Ss to talk about some living legends in other fields.
T: Can you talk about some living legends in other fields?
Ⅴ. Summary (1 min)
T clarifies the basic information of Lang Ping and Jordan again. Also, T promotes the value of persistence according to the previous activities.
Ⅵ. Assignments (1 min)
Compulsory: Ss polish up and write their own “Living legend of sports” that they discussed at the post-reading stage by surfing the Internet for more information(80 words).
Optional: Collect information about living legends of other fields and make a mind map.
Blackboard design
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