Unit 6
Sports Events and
Outdoor Activities
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Session 1
Section I
Talking Face to Face
Section II
Being All Ears
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Section I
Talking Face to Face
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Lead-in
Warm-up
1. What’s the use of sports event
posters ?
2. Have you ever designed
an English poster for
your college sports
event?
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Lead-in
Read and translate
Read and translate the posters
in Section I.
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Sample dialogues
Warm-up
1. Do you know how to
talk about sports
posters in English?
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Speak out —
talking about a sports poster
A. Haven’t you seen the
poster for a friendly
basketball match
organized by the
Students’ Union?
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Speak out —
talking about a sports poster
B. Look! There is a colored poster
___ that says that ____.
Tips:
on the notice board /
in the club lounge
there will be a fishing contest
this weekend
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Speak out —
talking about a sports poster
C. 让我们一起
为羽毛球比赛
做张海报吧。
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D. 怎样才能把
海报装饰得更
引人注目呢？
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Speak out —
talking about a sports poster
C. Let’s make a poster for the
badminton match together.
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Speak out —
talking about a sports poster
D. How should we decorate the
poster to make it more
attractive?
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Sample dialogues
Warm-up
2. Do you know how to invite
people to watch a sports
game in English?
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Speak out — inviting others to a game
A. Would you like to join us in
cheering for the college
football team tonight?
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Speak out — inviting others to a game
B. It says there will be a chess
game at the Students Center on
Sunday. ____
Tips:
Would you like to go and watch it?
Let’s go to watch it.
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Speak out — inviting others to a game
C. Are you interested
in the tug-of-war
matches in our college?
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Sample dialogues
Warm-up
3. Are you interested in making
comments on a sports event
in English?
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Speak out — making comments on sports
A. The match is ______ .
Tips:
so exciting
worth watching
making me feel crazy
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Speak out — making comments on sports
B. Both the teams / Our team ____ .
Tips:
played wonderfully
made an unbelievable victory
against the other school team
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Speak out — making comments on sports
C. ____ is a very good (healthy)
outdoor activity.
Tips:
Fishing
Picnicking
Mountain-climbing
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Sample dialogues
Warm-up
4. Can you invite people to take
part in an outdoor activity
in English?
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Speak out —
inviting people to an outdoor activity
B.我喜欢钓鱼。
I enjoy fishing
a钓鱼是有利于
lot. It’s a
健康的运动。
healthy
sports.
A. Are you
你喜欢
interested
钓鱼吗？
in fishing?
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C.那干嘛不和
Why not
我们一起去
go
fishing
钓鱼呢？
with
us?
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Speak out —
inviting people to an outdoor activity
D. Mountain climbing
is a very good outdoor
activity. Will you join
us in climbing the
mountain outside the
city this Sunday?
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Speak out —
inviting people to an outdoor activity
E. Picnicking is a very exciting
outdoor activity. Most people
enjoy having a picnic in summer.
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Sample dialogues
Read and find out
Read and find out useful
expressions for inviting
people to watch a sports
games and giving responses.
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Sentences for inviting people to watch
a sports game and giving responses:
1. There is a basketball match at the
City Gymnasium. Would you like
to go to watch it?
2. Let’s go to cheer for our team.
3. I’m eager to watch
the game.
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Sentences for inviting people to watch
a sports game and giving responses:
4. Are you going to the
rowboat match?
5. Are you going to join us in
cheering for the college team?
6. What time is the
match and where?
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Practice the following sentences.
1. When the football match was
in process, we kept cheering
for both teams.
2. I’m eager to witness the
victory of our national team.
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Sentences for
commenting on a sports event:
1. The Normal University team is not
easy to beat.
2. The match will be exciting.
3. Wow, that’s going to be exciting.
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Practice the following sentences.
1. We beat them by the score of
5 to 3 in the football match.
2. The two teams used to compete
wonderfully.
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Sample dialogues
Group work
Practice the dialogues.
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Sample dialogues
Pair work
Make short conversations
by simulating the five
small dialogues.
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Sample dialogues
Role play
Role play the similar
situations you create, first
in groups, and then
before the class.
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Sample dialogues
Put-in-Use
Do the Put-in-Use exercises
in groups by reading out
loudly the three dialogues
you have completed.
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Section II
Being All Ears
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Dialogue
Pre-listening
task
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Dialogue
While-listening
task
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Dialogue
While-listening
task
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Dialogue
While-listening
task
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Dialogue script
Bob:
Look, Xiao Li. What a clear day!
Xiao Li: Yes, it looks very nice. A good
day for outdoor activities.
Bob:
Right. And it will be good for
us to spend time outdoors. What
do you feel like doing exactly?
Xiao Li: I haven’t made up my mind yet.
What do you think?
Bob:
How about a bicycle ride to the
lake area?
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Dialogue script
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Xiao Li: Good idea! Let’s take a ride
through the woods.
Bob:
Yeah! It would be so nice to take
in the beauty of nature.
Xiao Li: Yes, indeed. We’d better go
slowly so that we can see more
of the view.
Bob:
And we can take deep breaths of
the fresh air.
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Dialogue script
Xiao Li: Now let’s see what we should
bring with us. Swimming suits?
Bob:
No, the water might be cold by
now. Just some food and drinks.
Oh, yes, and perhaps the
barbecue grills.
Xiao Li: Barbecue grills? All right. With
them we can have a good picnic
by the lake.
Bob: And how about the fishing rod
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and fishing line?
Dialogue
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Do the
exercises in
Listen and Decode
and Listen and Respond.
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Passage
Pre-listening
task
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Passage
While-listening
task
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Passage
While-listening
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Passage
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Key to the passage:
1. outdoors
3. charcoal smoke
4. popular
5. in a hot sauce
6. vegetables
7. clever cook
8. so good
9. nobody
10. blue jeans
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2. families
11. experience
Passage
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Do the
exercises in
Listen and Match
and Listen and Conclude.
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1. Make up dialogues referring to
the Workbook for inviting
people to watch and comment
on a sports game in pairs.
2. Preview Passage I and the
exercises.
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