An Interview教案

                                                                       青州一中  王希萍

Step One: Lead in the new lesson

Get the students to listen to the song of Beijing Olympic Games: You and me and enjoy some pictures of Beijing Olympic Games to boost students’ interest in the Olympic Games. Then ask them three questions.

1. When and where did the ancient Olympic Games start?

2. Who was China’s first gold winner and for what event?

3. What are the three words that show the spirit of the Olympic Games?

Step Two: Ask students to discuss the reading goals and reading strategies that they have chosen in groups.

The reading goals:

1. Master some new and technical vocabulary used for sports.

2. Learn about Olympic Games and the differences and similarities between ancient Olympics and modern Olympics.

3. Use the reading strategies to improve the ability of reading, such as prediction, skimming, scanning and guessing new words.

4. Improve the ability of language communication to talk about sports topic.

The reading strategies: predicting, skimming, scanning, inferring unknown vocabulary, inferring and summarizing, identifying sentence structure.

Step Three: Ask students to read autonomously and raise questions

During the course of the reading, the teacher offers the following outline to train reading strategies and encourages students to raise questions.

1. Predicting:

Look at the title and the pictures and predict the content of the text.

2. Skimming:

(1) What are Pausanias and Li Yan mainly talking about in the interview?

(2) Divide the whole article into two parts and find out the main idea of each part.

3. Scanning:

(1)What amazes Pauasnias about the Olympic Games?

(2)How often is the winter Olympics held?

(3) What events can not be competed in the Summer Olympics?

(4)Find out the differences and similarities of the ancient and modern Olympics. (Fill in the following table)

The differences and similarities of the ancient and modern Olympics

Items	The ancient Olympic Games	The modern Olympic Games
Frequency	1.Every______years	2. Every ______ years
Types	Only Summer Olympic Games	Summer and ___3___ Olympic Games
Events	Fewer	4.__________
Athletes	Only men from  _____5___ city	From______6_______ including_____7___
Places	Greece	8._____________
Prize	9. ____________	10. __ ___________

4. Inferring unknown vocabulary: infer the underlined words or phrases.

(1) There are two main sets of Games—the Winter and Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a regular basis.

(2) Only athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be admitted as competitors.

(3) Does anyone want to host the Olympic Games?

5. Identifying sentence structure:

(1) There’s as much competition among countries to host the Olympics as to win Olympic medals.

(2) For each Olympics, a special village is built for them to live in, a main reception building, several stadiums for competitions, and a gymnasium as well.

Step Four: Ask students to explore questions autonomously in groups

After reading autonomously, students discuss the questions that members of the group raise and settle some individual questions in groups. The teacher guides students to solve some common questions with the whole class.

The common questions that students raised：

1. What amazes Pauasnias about the Olympic Games? （Most students can’t find all the details about this question completely）

2. What events can not be competed in the Summer Olympics? （Most students can’t find the detail correctly.）

3. There are two main sets of Games—the Winter and Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a regular basis. (Most students can’t understand the underlined phrase)

Explain: The underlined words are a phrase which is useful and often used in spoken and written English. If something is held every four years, then it is held regularly. So “on a regular basis” means the same as “regularly”

4. There’s as much competition among countries to host the Olympics as to win Olympic medals. (Most students don’t understand the phrase “as much--- as”)

5. Only athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be admitted as competitors.（Four groups raised the question that they can’t understand this sentence）

Step Five: The teacher explains some important points in brief

1. I live in what you call “Ancient Greece” and I used to write about the Olympic Games more than 2000 years ago.

what you call “Ancient Greece”是介词in 的宾语，相当于the place that/ which you call “Ancient Greece”.

eg: At last we came to what is called “Tibet”.=At last we came to a place that is called “Tibet”.最后, 我们来到西藏这个地方。

2.He is now_______(采访) Li Yan, a volunteer for the 2008 Olympic Games.

(1) 求职面试

(2) 数百名记者前来采访他。

3. There’s as much competition among countries to host the Olympics as to win Olympic medals.

（1）as much---as表示------跟------同一程度。

It is as much as our responsibility to educate the child as yours. 教育这个孩子是你们的责任，同样也是我们的责任。

（2）as--- as--- “表示和------一样------”

1）He is as tall as his brother.

2）当 as---as---的结构后面连接 can / any / ever / possible / 等词时，表示最高级的意思，可译为“极其，最好或尽量”。例：

 This is as fair a land as ever. 这是一片最美的土地。

It was as much as he could do to help us. 他尽了最大力量帮助我们。

3）当 as---as---结构后面表示重量、数量、时间、距离等计量名词时，相当于up to，表示程度，可译为“达到------”。例：

The river is as deep as 10 meters.这条河10米深。

Step Six: Ask students to do some effective exercises

Give students several minutes to read the text quickly and do some effective exercises to consolidate what they have learned. After they discuss answers in groups, report their problems to the whole class and discuss together with the help of the teacher.

1. Please fill in the blanks using the information in the text. (Summary of the interview)

Pausanias, a____ writer 2000 years ago, came to China and had an ___with a Chinese girl, Lili. Through the interview, Pausanias learned a lot about the ___ and similarities between the ___and modern Olympics. There are _____sets of Olympics while there was only the _____Olympics in the ancient time. And in Ancient Greece ___or____ were not allowed to take part in the Olympics. What’s more, they were held only in Greek cities. In the modern Olympics, from all over the world are admitted as ___and women even have played an____ role. As to sports events, some have been changed while others ____the same. The number of the events is getting ______, over ______now. The modern Olympics have been changed so much, which really amazed and even_____ Pausanias, but it is still a practice to hold the Olympics every____ years and the spirit of the Olympics is still “______,______,________”, which made Pausanias very happy.

2. Replace the underlined parts with words and expressions in the text.

(1)   UFO is short for the unidentified flying objects.

(2) There is a fixed bus service to the airport.

(3) The new design will take the place of the present models.

(4)   It’s our duty to devote ourselves to the country.

(5)The competitors together with the judges will take part in the opening ceremony.

3. Translations: (Pay attention to the underlined parts)

(1) I live in what you call “Ancient Greece” and I used to write about the Olympic Games more than 2000 years ago.

(2) For each Olympics, a special village is built for them to live in, a main reception building, several stadiums for competitions, and a gymnasium as well.

(3) For each Olympics, a special village is built for them to live in, a main reception building, several stadiums for competitions, and a gymnasium as well.

Step Seven: Ask students to use what they have learned flexibly

1. Discussion: divide the whole class into groups of four and discuss the following questions about Beijing Olympic Games.

(1) What preparations did we do for Beijing Olympics?

(2) What benefits did we get from hosting the Olympics?

(3) What do you think of the modern Olympics?

(4) What’s your feeling about hosting the 2008 Olympics?

2. Act an interview: Ask students to make up an interview between Li Yan and Pausanis in Beijing.

Time---in the summer of 2008

Place--- the Beijing National Stadium

Events---the ending ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games

Contents of the interview:

(1) Greetings between friends

(2) Opinions about the modern Olympics

(3) Feelings about the success of the 2008 Olympics

(4) Decisions to work hard for our country

Step Eight: Ask students to summarize by themselves and make assessments

Step Nine: Assignment: (Students can choose one, two or three of them according to their situation.)

1. Search on the internet to find more information about Olympics.

2. Write an article about 2008 Olympics.

3. Make up an English class paper on 2008 Olympics.