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Lesson 5 The best team
1. Teaching Objectives
1. Language Ability:
Master key phrases about sports matches and teamwork; extract key information from the passage; retell the volleyball game and finish all exercises; express opinions on teamwork orally and in writing.
2. Cultural Awareness:
Learn the fighting spirit of the Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team; understand that mutual trust, respect and communication are the foundation of an excellent team; build collective pride.
3. Thinking Quality:
Sort out the plot line of the match (fall behind—adjust tactics—win the game); analyze reasons for victory; transfer teamwork rules from the volleyball game to daily group work.
4. Learning Ability:
Use skimming and scanning reading skills; cooperate with partners to discuss and design team activities; apply textbook sentences into real-life communication.
2. Key and Difficult Points
Key Points
1. Master key expressions: fight tooth and nail, go back and forth, call for a timeout, cheer sb up, adjust the strategy, work at one’s best.
2. Get main facts of the 2016 Olympic volleyball game and complete Exercise 1 and Exercise 2. 3. Summarize the core spirits of a strong team.
Difficult Points
1. Analyze how the coach and players worked together to turn the game around.
2. Apply teamwork ideas from the article to design practical class group activities and express ideas in simple English.
三. Teaching Methods
Task-based Language Teaching, Skimming & Scanning Reading Strategy, Cooperative Learning, Situational Discussion, Case Transfer Teaching
四.Teaching Aids
PPT, volleyball match pictures, worksheet with exercise tables, whiteboard
5. Teaching Procedures
Step 1: Warm-up & Lead-in
Teacher’s Activities
1. Greet students and review the whole unit theme: Previously we learned how to solve problems in group work and good communication skills.
Today we will look at the world’s best team as a perfect example.
2. Show pictures of Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team. Ask guided questions:
Do you know this team?
What qualities make them successful?
3. Introduce the lesson topic: The best team. State today’s learning tasks clearly.
Students’ Activities
Answer open questions; recall what they know about the volleyball team; get clear learning aims.
Design Intent
Connect prior unit knowledge with the new lesson; activate students’ background knowledge; arouse learning interest and pave the way for teamwork theme study. Fit students’ knowledge foundation.
Step 2: Pre-reading
Teacher’s Activities
1. Present new phrases with match scenarios and simple explanations, lead choral reading and individual reading:
go back and forth (scores change alternately)
fight tooth and nail (compete fiercely)
call for a timeout
adjust the strategy
cheer teammates up
2. Give simple fill-in-blank mini-practices to check understanding. Students’ Activities
Read phrases repeatedly; finish short exercises to consolidate word usage.
Design Intent
Remove reading barriers in advance. Students can easily memorize phrases with situational examples and simple exercises, laying a solid foundation for the following reading tasks.
Step 3: While-reading
Task 1: Skimming
1. Ask students to skim the whole passage quickly and finish Exercise 1 table independently.
Walk around to give hints for weak students.
3. Check answers together on the whiteboard:
Name of the match: 2016 Olympic Games women's volleyball match
Teams: China and Brazil
Score: China lost the first set, won the third and fifth sets
Result: Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team won the match Students’ Activities
Skim the text to locate basic information; fill in the table; share answers in class.
Design Intent
Train skimming skill to get main facts; structure information with a clear table, which is friendly for students to organize information logically.
Task 2: Scanning
1. Guide students to scan paragraphs and sort out the game timeline:
Close game → China falls behind → Coach Lang Ping takes action → Players encourage each other → Final victory
2. Ask questions to dig details:
What did Coach Lang Ping do at the critical moment?
How did players respond to difficulties?
Students’ Activities
Scan sentences for specific details; answer teacher’s questions; follow the timeline to retell the game briefly.
Design Intent
Cultivate logical thinking by sorting out the game development; help students figure out the cause-and-effect relationship between coach’s instructions, players’ efforts and final success.
Task 3: Complete the dialogue (Exercise 2)
1. Let students fill the blanks with information from the text.
2. Invite pairs to read the dialogue aloud in front of the class.Reference answers:
3. called for a timeout, adjusted the strategy and cheered the players up
4. encouraged each other, became more motivated and won the match
5. really excited and proud
Students’ Activities
Finish the dialogue; practice pair reading.
Design Intent
Consolidate detailed information; shift input knowledge to simple oral output step by step, matching students’ oral expression level.
Step 4: Post-reading
Task 1: Pair Work Discussion (Exercise 3)
1. Put forward four discussion questions; offer simple sentence frames for students to refer to:
Who teamed up?
I worked with my classmates.
What was your role?
I was in charge of…
Did you communicate well with teammates?
What leads to success or failure?
2. Students discuss in fixed pairs; teacher gives timely guidance for poor expressions.
Students’ Activities
Communicate with partners using given sentence structures; share personal group work experiences.
Design Intent
Transfer the teamwork spirit from the volleyball game to students’ daily study; lower oral difficulty with sentence templates so students can speak confidently.
Task 2: Group Project
1. Divide the class into groups of four. Show the chart framework and set clear requirements: event name, purpose, time, place and member duties.
2.Walk around each group to guide planning. Show a sample plan for reference:
Name of the event: Class Cooperative Puzzle Game
Purpose: Improve communication and teamwork
Time: Friday afternoon break
Place: Classroom
Details: One student sorts pieces, one student assembles the puzzle, one student records progress; prepare puzzle sets.
Students’ Activities
Brainstorm ideas in groups; finish the activity plan form; prepare for class presentation.
Design Intent
Realize comprehensive language output; combine reading input with practical project work; achieve the upgrade of thinking and language ability.
Step 5: Summary
Teacher’s Activities
1. Summarize key phrases and the whole passage structure.
2. Emphasize the theme sentence:
Only when a team truly understands, trusts, and respects each other can it play at its best. Connect it to students’ daily group tasks. 3. Assign layered homework.
Students’ Activities
Review key knowledge; understand the teamwork spirit deeply.
Design Intent
Consolidate class knowledge; promote cultural awareness and value shaping; achieve the unity of knowledge learning and spiritual education.
Step 6: Homework
1. Basic Task (Must-do): Recite key phrases and retell the volleyball match story in three sentences. Finish textbook exercises.
2. Intermediate Task: Polish the group activity plan designed in class and write a short introduction.
3. Extended Task: Share one teamwork story with family members in simple English.
六. Blackboard Design
Lesson 5 The best team
Key Phrases
1. go back and forth
2. fight tooth and nail
3. call for a timeout
4. adjust the strategy
5.cheer sb up
Game Line
Fall behind → Coach’s help → Players’ encouragement → Final win
Theme
Trust, respect, good communication = the best team
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