1.How many sports are there in the video?

2.What are they?

There are eight.

swimming , running , skiing , gymnastics

,basketball ,

football ,

volleyball . table tennis ,

Do you know ?1.The Olympic flame was passed ( 传递） from Greece to China from March 24, 2008.

2.The Olympic flag is five-ring flag ( 五环旗 )

3.The 2008 Olympic mascots ( 吉祥物 ) ： Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan,Yingying, Nini

Module 6The Olympic adventure

Unit 1 Cycling is more dangerous

than swimming .

奥林匹克激动人心的活动

gymnastics gym nas tics

cycling

basketball

skiing

table tennis

running

Listen and number the sports as you hear them :

basketball cycling gymnastics running skiing table tennis

5.1

.

2.3.

4.

6.

Gymnastics is difficult.

gymnastics

难的(easy 容易的 )

Basketball is exciting.(boring 令人厌烦的 )

basketball

激动人心的

Table tennis is popular.(unpopular)

table tennis

不流行的 , 不受欢迎的

受欢迎的 , 流行的

Running is cheap.(expensive

running

便宜的 , 廉价的昂贵的 , 贵的 )

Cycling is tiring.(relaxing

cycling

累人的放松的 )

Skiing is dangerous.

(safe

skiing

危险的安全的 )

3.Gymnastics is difficult.

2.Basketball is exciting.

1.Table tennis is popular.

(easy)

(unpopular)

(boring)

5.Running is cheap.

4.Cycling is tiring.

6.Skiing is dangerous.

(expensive)

(relaxing)

(safe)

Match the words in Box 1 with the opposite( 反义的 ) words in Box

2

boring cheap easy safe tiring unpopular

dangerous difficult exciting expensive popular relaxing

dangerous -- safedifficult -- easyexciting -- boringexpensive -- cheapcomfortable-uncomfortable popular -- unpopularrelaxing -- tiring

Read the opposites:

B: Chinese people are very good at gymnastics. Do you like gymnastics, Daming?D: Yes, I do. But Chinese people are good at table tennis , too, and table tennis is more popular than gymnastics.B: I love gymnastics. I think it's more exciting than table tennis. What Olympic sports do you like?

be good at... 擅长Listen and read:

D: Basketball is my favourite sport, but I also like running.B: Oh, no, running is more boring than basketball. I also like cycling. Cycling is more relaxing than running.D: No, it isn't. I think cycling is more tiring than running. And do you like skiing?B: Yes, I do. But it’s more dangerous than running and cycling .

Gymnastics Basketball Running Cycling

Daming

Betty

Listen again. Check the sports Daming and Betty like :

Practice: Make sentences ( 造句 ) football, tiring, swimmingrunning, popular, gymnasticscycling, dangerous, runninggymnastics, exciting, table tennis

running, boring, basketballe.g. Swimming is more difficult than running .

1. 我擅长打乒乓球。I __________ playing table tennis.

2. 他擅长弹钢琴He ________________ the piano.

3. 我们将有一个令人激动的假期 .We will have __________holiday.

am good at

is good at playing

an exciting

4. 篮球比足球更放松。Basketball is_________________football.

5. 体操比骑车更激动人心 .Gymnastics is ________________ cycling.

more relaxing than

more exciting than

Talk about the sports you like. e.g.

A: I like gymnastics. It’s more

exciting than table tennis, and

it’s more difficult than running.

B: I like ……

Homework :1. Recite the passage2. Do Exercises 1-4 in U1 on P55 ( 同步 )