Welcome to our class!

1. Welcome to our class! Presenter: Li Xiangli Class: Class16 Senior 1

2. Step1 Lead-in Look at the pictures and tell the names of the stars.

4. Iverson basketball players Beckham football players

5. Men’s hurdle champion badminton champion table tennis champion balance beam champion

6. Sports Stars

7. Positive Words: brilliant, fast, skilful, smart, strong, useful, Negative Words: awful, boring, lazy, slow, terrible, useless, weak Key Words

8. Useful sentences to express your opinions: • I agree (with you), • Yes, you're right. • I’m sorry, but I don't agree. • In my opinion… • Personally, I think…

9. Step2: SpeakingSporting hero/heroine • Example A:In my opinion, Ronaldo is abrilliant player. He isvery fastand skilful. B:I agree. I think he’s very smart.

10. Unit2 lesson 3 Sports Stars

11. Venus Williams& Serena Williams

12. Venus &Serena Williams --World-famous Tennis players

13. They study design in college.

14. Venus Williams Serena Williams

15. Step 3: Skimming:Read the text quickly and match the headings with each paragraph Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 A. Training and study B. Success and achievements C. Brief introduction D. Family background

16. How to choose the best title for the text? To choose the best title for the text, we should pay much attention tothe first paragraph , in which ,often,the main idea of the text is talked about.

17. Findthebest title for the text: Champion Sisters • Success and achievements • B. Training and Study • C. Champion Sisters • D. The Background of Two Sisters Venus Serena

18. Step4: Careful-reading Read the text carefully and complete the following chart

19. look back: to think about sth in the past Paragraph heading Keyinformation Brief Introduction Background looked back trained compete against completed high school developing tennis have expressed a keen interest in come to an end. has won to improve make progress

20. :to teach a person or an animal the skills for a particular job or activity. Word Bank Word Bank The father trains his son kickboxing every weekend.

21. Word Bank Word Bank The boy is very interested in PC games. He has a keen interest in PC games. have showan interest in express

22. Word Bank Word Bank The race has come to an end. 译：会议终于结束了。 _____________________________. The meeting came to an end at last. John has finished the race.

23. Word Bank Word Bank : development, especially towards a better situation He is making progress in his lessons and he has improved his grade. to become better

24. Step 5: Post-readingListen to the tape and complete the summary. champions • Venus and Serena Williams are both tennis 1.___________. They were born in an poor and dangerous area which was full of drugs and 2.__________. Richard, their father was very 3._________with them and 4._________them hard to 5.___________against each other. • Both sisters are studying design at college now. They have 6.___________a keen interest in working in design after their tennis 7._________ come to an end. The sisters’ road success has been 8.___________ . It was in 1996 that Venus played in a big 9._________ for the first time. Serena has continued to make fantastic 10.____________. violence strict trained compete expressed careers amazing event progress

25. Step6 : Interview Group-work:Work in groups of four to prepare for an interview. Imagine two group members are Venus Williams and Serena Williams. And the other two act as their father and mother. The teacher acts as a reporter from CCTV 5 and interview them based on the given clues.

26. Supported Clues: 1. Williams’ father: • ① When did you train Venus and Serena Williams sisters? • ② How did you treat your daughters? 2.Williams’ mother: • ① What did you do to help your daughters complete their high school? • ② When developing their tennis careers, did you give up their formal knowledge learning(正规的知识学习)?

27. Venus Williams: • ① What kind of family background are you from? And when did you move to a safer place? • ② Who helped you to succeed? • ③ How do you get on with each other at home? • ④ Which field did you express a keen interest in? What was your future plan? • ⑤ How many awards(奖项)did you win? What are they? • ⑥ In your opinion, what leads to your success?

28. 4. Serena Williams: • ① What kind of family background are you from? And when did you move to a safer place? • ② Who helped you to succeed? • ③ How do you get on with each other at home? • ④ Which field did you express a keen interest in? What was your future plan? • ⑤ How many awards(奖项)did you win? What are they? • ⑥ In your opinion, what leads to your success?

29. Step7: Voice your opinionWhat are the advantages of being sports stars? Brainstorming exciting wonderful fantastic Sports Stars wealthy brilliant popular world-famous

30. Proverbs: 1.No pains, no gains.一份耕耘，一份收获。 2. Diligence is the mother of success. • 勤奋是成功之母。 3. An idle youth, a needy age. • 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。 4. Never do things by halves. • 做事不要半途而废。

31. Homework 1. Find more information about Williams sisters on the Internent. 2. Finish Ex6, P26. 3. Write a passage about Zhang Yiningbased on the given information.

32. Homework Write a passage about the table tennis player--- Zhang Yining according to the following information.

33. 参考词汇: 1. 女单women’s singles 女双women’s double 2. 世乒赛World Table Tennis Championships

34. Thank you for your attention!