Unit12 - reading

Brainstorming List sports events you know volleyball fencing boxing billiards weightlifting cycling karatedo hockey shooting basketball bodybuilding tennis Sports Sports... Pre-teach

Welcome to our class 11A10

Presented by: To Hoai Son Huynh Thuc Khang school

Vinh city, March 2008

GAME: CROSSWORD

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Work in pairs two these questions

and then report to the class

1 Which sport do you like?

2 How often do you play it/them ?

Brainstorming List sports events you know

volleyball

fencing

boxing

billiards

weightlifting

cycling

karatedo

hockey

shooting

basketball

bodybuilding

tennis

Sports

Sports

Unit 12: THE ASIAN GAMES

A Reading:

I Pre-teach vocabulary:

- solidarity (n): unity and agreement about everything

- aquatic (n): sports in water (swimming, rowing )

- athlete (n): person who takes part in sports events

- facilities (n): services, conveniences

- appreciate (v): increase in value, highly value

- enthusiasm (n): eagerness, passion

Check vocabulary

• 1 A person who trains to compete in physical

exercises and sports is an .

• 2 He never lost his for training athletes.

• 3 The hotel has special for disabled athletes.

• 4 The Asian Games event is an occasion to build and deepen friendship and

• 5 Swimming and water skiing are both sports.

• 6 The Vietnamese participants’ efforts were

much when they won 2 gold medals in

bodybuilding and billiards.

athlete enthusiasm

facilities

solidarity

aquatic

appreciated

II Guessing

? How many sports events were at the first Asian

Games? What were they?

- Six sports events at the first Asian Games They

were basketball, cycling, football, aquatic

sports, athletics and weightlifting.

? What sports events did Vietnamese athletes win

the gold medals?

- Vietnamese athletes won 2 gold medals in

bodybuilding and billiards, and 2 others in

women’s karatedo.

III Scan the passage and complete the following table.

(2) .

(3) Tennis, volleyball, table tennis and hockey were added

Thailand.

(5) The 14th Asian Games were held in Busan, Korea.

the 2rd Asian Games in Manila, the Philippines 1951

Squash, rugby, fencing and mountain biking

2002

1958

IV Asian Games

- to gather young Asian people together to compete

Purposes

Eg: - to develop intercultural knowledge and friendship

within Asia

Improvements

Eg: - the number of participants

has been increasing

- the quality of athletes, officials and sports facilities have been developing through the time

- to test strength and sports skills

- to build and deepen friendship and solidarity

- new sports and traditional sports have been introduced

V Work in pairs: Using prompts to make

sentences

1 When / where / first / Asian Games / hold?

2 How often / Asian Games / hold?

3 How many / country / take part / Asian Games / Korea?

4 How many / participants / take part / 14th / Asian Games?

5 What / sports / you think / Vietnam / best at?

When and where were the first Asian Games held?

during 1951 in New Delhi, India

How often are the Asian Games held?

every 4 years

44 countries How many countries took part in the Asian Games in Korea?

9,919 participants

Bodybuilding and Karatedo What sports do you think Vietnam is best at?