《He was invited to competitions around the world》Sports life PPT课件2

Warming up

Do you know who he is?

Are you his fan?

Do you often watch his match?

Do you have his star pictures?

Do you have his poster?

Would you like to be a famous man like him?

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1 look at the picture and the title of the passage in Activity 2. Say what you know about Liu Xiang and how he became a sports hero.

For example:

Has Liu Xiang been in the Olympics?

Has Liu Xiang won any medals?

Has Liu Xiang ever suffered injury or defeat?

Listen to Part 2 and answer the questions.

Read the passage and choose the  sentence which best expresses the main idea.

a) Liu Xiang was helped by his sports school to win a gold medal.

b) Liu Xiang will be a star and not a sports hero.

c) Liu Xiang has trained for many years and won many gold medals.

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Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box. 

ability       Asian       courage   

method     pride       race

The Chinese take great (1) ______ in Liu Xiang. At first, he was not very successful, but his coach noticed his (2) _______ in running and jumping, and helped him change his training (3) _________.

He won a number of important (4) ______ and became the first (5) _______ sportsperson to win an Olympic gold medal for hurdling. However, from 2008 on, he missed some competitions because of a foot problem. Although he did not complete the 2012 Olympic Games, he is still a symbol of great (6) _________ and success.

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language points

1. Liu was encouraged at first to train for  

the high jump.

encourage sb. to do sth. 表示“鼓励某人去做某事”。

be encouraged to do sth.表示“被鼓励去做某事”。

e.g. Ms Wang always encourages us to speak English in class.

王老师总是鼓励我们课上讲英语。

We are encouraged (by Ms Wang) to speak English in class. 

我们总是被（王老师）鼓励在课上讲英语。

2. …at the same time broke the Olympic Games record.

break表示“打破”，它的过去式为broke, 过去分词为broken。

break the record表示“打破记录”。

3. In 2001, a special programme was set up to help young sportsmen and sportswomen.

2001年，（国家）创立了一个特殊项目，用来帮助年轻运动员。

这个句子是一般过去时的被动语态。

set的过去式和过去分词都为set。

set up表示“设立；创办”。

e.g. She plans to set up her own company.

她计划创办自己的公司。

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Write the notes in Activity 3 in full sentences.

Liu Xiang was born in Shanghai in 1983.

He started training at a sports school in 1993.

His hurdling ability was noticed in 1998.

He won his first international 110m hurdles race in 2001.

He won the Olympic gold medal in 2004.

He suffered a lot from his foot problem from 2008 on.

He returned to first place in 2012. 

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practice

1. Our school ____ a new classroom for sports.

A. set down   B. set up         

C. set off      D. set at

2. Liu Xiang suffered _____ great pain to take part in the hurdling last year.

A. at        B. off        

C. to        D. from

3. At last he got the ____ place in the school math competition.

A. first          B. one            C. his first 

4. Liu Xiang won the gold medal. We took ____ in him.

A. pride        B. proud        C. prides

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Homework

Finish your passage about Zhang Yining.

Write a passage to introduce Yao Ming following the passage we learned today. 

《He was invited to competitions around the world》Sports life PPT课件3 Words review sportsman n.（尤指职业的）运动员 high jump 跳高 ability n. 能力 hurdling n. 跨栏赛跑 ..

《He was invited to competitions around the world》Sports life PPT课件 Presentation n. (尤指职业的) 运动员 sportsman n. 能力 ability n. 跨栏赛跑 hurdling n. (尤指职业的)..