College English: Viewing, Liestening and Speaking
(Band II)
Unit 2 All that Glitters Is Olympic Gold
Teaching Objectives
Vocabulary: passion amateur frown speed bag embarrass ballerina goddamn jock softball
Function: Understanding the Olympic spirit of courage, strength, and the refusal to give up
Talking about one’s happiness and unhappiness
Talking about one’s worry
Conducting listening and speaking activities related to the theme of this unit
Language points: straight A student, be unmatched by, for the sake of,
I’m on cloud nine, I’m dying to…, get wrapped up in
Teaching method: task-based language teaching method, communicative approach, audio-lingual method, etc.
Teaching aids: PPT, discs, video clips, audio tapes, U disk, etc.
Teaching procedures:
1. Warming up (10 minutes)
Ss will be asked to listen to a broadcaster introducing the program “All that Glitters Is Olympic Gold” and complete the chart based on the information they hear.
2. Listening (60 minutes)
Listening skills:
1). Ask Ss to read through the four options listed on their books
2). Ask Ss to find out the differences and similarities among the four options and guess the question according to the four options.
3). Ask Ss to listen to the dialogs and complete the tasks of each section
Task 1: Understanding Short Conversations (20 minutes)
Task 2: Understanding a Long Conversation (10 minutes)
Task 3: Understanding a Passage (15 minutes)
Task 4: Understanding a Movie Dialog (15 minutes)
3. Speaking (50 minutes)
Task 1: Practicing Conversational Skills (15 minutes)
1. Introduce useful patterns for talking about one’s happiness, unhappiness
and worry
2. Listen to the model dialogs, imitate and practice the dialogs.
Task 2: Situational Conversations——Jock Talk (15 minutes)
Work with a partner, make up short conversations based on some given situations, using appropriate expressions for talking about happiness, unhappiness and worry.
Task 3: Class Activity——The Greatest Olympian of All (20 minutes)
1. Ask Ss to discuss with others about their favorite Olympic athletes and how they influenced the lives of others. Ss will be allowed to walk around the room and argue for their heroes.
2. Have Ss vote on the greatest Olympian.
4. Listening and speaking (25 minutes)
Listening and Discussion: Ss are to hear a passage, answer and discuss five questions followed.
5. Summary (5 minutes)
Summarize the main idea of this unit: expressions for talking about happiness, unhappiness and worry.
6. Assignments
Supplementary listening and oral report.