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Read the text and answer the following questions. 1. How many gold medals had he won when Li Ning retired? 2. Whose names were on the list together with Li Ning? 3. What is the red logo made up of? 4. What is their major advantage over others? 5. Are Li Ning products popular in some schools? 6. Was it Li Ning’ s goal to make money when he retired? (Answers: 1. When he retired at the age of 26, he had won 106 gold medals in major petitions across the world. 2. Li Ning’ s name was on it, together with footballer Pele and boxer Muhammad. bright red logo is made up of the first two pinyin letters of Li Ning’ s name, Land N. 4. Li Ning’ s designs were attractive and they had a major advantage over their better known rivals— they were cheaper. 5. Yes, they are. 6. No, it wasn’ t.) Step 5. Further reading Read the passage again and check the true statements in Activity3. Answers: 1,2,4,5,8 are true. Step 6. Vocabulary Do Activity 5 and 6 by themselves ,then check the answers together. Answers: Activity 5: (1) medal (2) determined (3) launch (4) brand (5) sports wear (6) global giant (7) logo (8) rivals (9) step out (10) goal/ dream/ ambition Step 7. Discussion: 1. Why did Li Ning start a spotswear pany? 2. Why has he been successful? Step 8. Homework 1. Workbook on P92 Exx. 5,6,7. 2. Write a short passage about Li Ning’ s life. Period Two Teaching aims: 1. To listen to the famous persons in the sports field. 2. To develop the students listening ability by listening to the programmes. 3. To express agreeing and disagreeing: degrees of certainty. 4. To learn several phrases: up to you。 not the point: so what? . Important and difficult points: 1. Get the students to catch the main information about numbers. 2. How to catch the key words in the listening. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision Step 2. Listening: Before listening: Look at the pictures and name the sports. What is the name of the sport they are playing? While listening: Activity 1: listen to Part1 twice and check the answers together: (Answer: 3. Vote for the greatest sports personality ever.) Activity 2: listen to Part2 twice and check the answers together: Answers: 1. Because he became a . Poems about his fights. 3. 2 4. With his head. 5. Just before the end of the race, he had terrible pain and had to pull out of the race. 6. His bus got stuck in a traffic jam.) Listen to Part2 the third time and fill in the blanks. 1. He was born with the name Cassius Clay, but he changed this to Muhammad Ali when he changed his _____ and became a Muslim. 2. Outside the ring, he was known as a _______ .He wrote poems about his fights. 3. Although the doctor told him to stay in bed, he was _____ for another race— the 1500 metres. 4. But the bus got stuck in a ________ jamso what did he do? 5. When he began playing football as a _________ he worked cleaning shoes. 6. They played Italy in the final and Pele scored a ______ goal with his head. Afterwards he said it was his_____ goal. (Answers: 1. religion 2. poet 3. entered 4. traffic 5. teenager 6. fantastic, favourite) After listening: Complete the facts below according to your listening. Muhammad Ali Became world champion in _1964___. Gold medal in Rome Olympics Won 22 out of 24 world championship fights. Kip Keino Silver medal in 5000 metres Gold medal in 1500 metres Winning time 3` Pele Age in his first world cup 17 Number of world cups 4 Total number of goals scored 1280 Step 3. Function and Speak