Unit 6
For the Glory of
Sports
Part 1 Warming up
Task A : Vovabulary
1)hemisphere:
the top or bottom half of a globe
2)Melbourne:
a seaport in Australia
3)Munich:
a city in Germany
Key to Task A
1)Paris
3)1932
4)Berlin
6)Tokyo
7)1972
Key to Task A
1-d
2-a
3-g
4-b
5-f
6-e
7-c
Part III Sports and eentertainment
choices
1)charter:
a document/ a constitution
2)ideal:
very high and positive standards
3)IOC:
International Olympic Committee
4)Lausanne:
a city in West Switzerland
8) sculpture:
雕塑
Part I Warming up
Task B.
Pre-listening
1. Do you have any idea what is the
most popular sport in the United States?
While Listening
Play the tape once and have the
students fill in the chart with the
missing information
Soccer: (association football) A game
played on a rectangular field with net
goals at either end in which two teams
of 11 players each try to drive a ball
into the other's goal by kicking,
heading, or using any part of the body
except the arms and hands. The goalie
is the only player who may touch or
move the ball with the arms or
hands.
In the United States, the word football generally refers only to
the American game; in other parts of the world it usually means
soccer. Football, amateur and professional, is perhaps the most
popular spectator sport in the United States, attracting a total
attendance of over 40 million and watched by many more
millions on television each year.
Key to Task B
1. By the number of people who pay to watch
it played by professional teams
---baseball
2. By the number of people who watch
games on television or listen on radio
---American football
3. By the number of people who play the
sport
---soccer
Task C.
Vocabulary
1. elbow: 胳膊肘
2. squeeze：press on sth. from opposite
sides or all sides
squeeze one’s fists tightly
3. hip: 臀部；胯部
4. rotate：turn around
5. clasp: hold sth. tightly
His hands were clasped together in prayer.
Key to Task C:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
D
H
A
C
i
6. C
7. G
8. B
9. J
10. F
Part II The Sporting Spirit
A. Talking about football supporters
I. Vocabulary
1. affectionate:
showing fondness; loving
He is very affectionate towards his kids.
an affectionate child
2. aggressive:
offensive; ready to attack
3. knock out:
eliminate sb from a competition by defeating
him
France knocked the Belgium out of the
European Cup.
4. smash:
be broken into pieces
I heard the sound of a glass smashing on the
floor.
5. terraces:
open areas where spectators stand ate
football and rugby matches
Rugby
A game played by two teams of 15
players each on a rectangular field
110 yards long with goal lines and
goal posts at either end, the object
being to run with an oval ball across
the opponent's goal line or kick it
through the upper portion of the goal
posts, with forward passing and timeouts not permitted.
Wimbledon
A district of southern
Greater London, England. It
is the site of a major annual
tennis tournament
While-listening
1. Finish the exercise in note form
Key to Task A:
Section 1
1.
a. In daily life:
nice/friendly/warm/affectionate
b. After a football match: drunk/
aggressive/ scream/ shout/ push
people around/ smash glasses
/monsters.
Key to Task A:
2. He finds it difficult to understand why normal,
nice people behave so badly at football
matches.
Section 2
3. Enjoy themselves/ no aggression or
violence
Section 3
4. Rugby/ tennis
5. They sit there silently throughout.
Post-listening
2. Have the students retell the main
ideas by referring to the notes.
B. vocabulary
1. cricket: An outdoor game played
with bats, a ball, and wickets by two
teams of 11 players each, teams take
turns trying to score runs
板球
2. inclination:
a feeling that you want to do sth.
I have neither the time nor the
inclination to play cards.
3. orgy:
an activity that is done in an excessive
or extreme way
放纵
an orgy of killing and destruction
4. deduce:
arrive at a conclusion or facts or a theory by
reasoning
5. utmost:
greatest; most extreme
6. patriotism:
love of one’s country and ready to defend it
7. disgrace: bring shame on sb. or oneself
He disgraced his parents.
She disgraced herself by getting drunk.
8. combative:
willing to argue or fight
9. instinct:
a natural feeling that makes one choose to
act in a particular way
10. mimic:
imitated or pretended
mimic warfare: 模拟战争
11. spectator：
viewer; audience
12. absurd:
ridiculous
13. at any rate:
in any case
14. virtue:
moral goodness or excellence
Key to Task B
Para 1. Good will between the nations,
football or cricket, on the battlefield,
international sporting contests.
Para 2. competitive, little meaning, pick
up sides, the fun and exercise, some
larger unit, aroused, school football
match, the attitude of the spectatoas,
the nations, tests of national vertue.
Part III.
Sports and entertainment choices
Key to Task A:
1. c
2. a
3. d
4. b
5. e
Key to Task B:
1. wheelchair tennis and baseball
2. a.teach all kinds of sports to disabled
people
b. to try a sport as if they were
disabled
c. for the paralympics
3. the ability to move his legs
Key to Task B:
4. his body and mind again
5. a. wireless earphones
b. visual interpreters
Part IV. Language Study