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Period four
Aim:
To train the students’ ability of listening and speaking
Contents:
Step I reading
Fast reading
answer the following questions?
1. What kind of magazine do you think the text is from?
2. How many profiles are there?
3. How many men and women are profiled?
4. What sport do they do?
5. What are their names?
6. Where are they from?
7. Who is the oldest and who is the youngest?
Careful reading
1. Who is the youngest athlete?
2. Who retired from their sport and then made a comeback?
3. Who has trained in another profession?
4. Who do you think is the most courageous of the four sportspeople?
5. What qualities do you think these sportspeople need to be successful?
Step II. Words and expressions
1 focus on
focus/ fix one’s attention / eyes on
2 at the speed of
at top / high / low speed
with great / surprising / astonishing / lightning speed
3 concentrate on
4 compete in sth参加某项竞赛
compete with / against sb. for sth与…竞争
competition比赛，竞争
5 in the following years
6 have a passion for
Difficult sentences
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, she took the gold medal in the women’s 10-metre platform, becoming the youngest Olympic diving champion of all time.
In 2000, he was the first person ever to swim the entire length of the
