Module 6 The Olympic Adventure

Unit1 Cycling is more dangerous than swimming.

There was Olympic Games in Beijing in Warming-up

What is he doing? diving playing volleyball doing gymnastics Warming-up cycling swimming

Olympic adj. adventure n. more adj. dangerous adj. gymnastics un. ski v. popular adj. exciting adj. tiring adj. be good at relax v. relaxing adj. 奥林匹克的 激动人心的活动；冒险 更多的；更 危险的 体操 滑雪 流行的；受欢迎的 激动人心的 累人的 擅长 （使）放松 放松的；轻松自在的 Let's learn the new words

Listen and number the sports as you hear them. basketball cycling gymnastics running skiing table tennis Activity1

basketball cycling Learn the new words

skiinggymnastics

running table tennis

Match the sentences with the pictures. 3. Gymnastics is difficult. 1. Table tennis is popular.

2.Basketbal l is exciting. 5. Running is cheap.

6. Skiing is dangerous. 4. Cycling is tiring.

dangerous difficult exciting expensive popular relaxing boring cheap easy safe tiring unpopular Now match the words in Box1 with the opposite words in Box2. Activity3

Listen and read Betty: Chinese people are very good at gymnastics. Do you like gymnastics, Daming? Daming: Yes, I do. But Chinese people are good at table tennis, too, and table tennis is than gymnastics. Betty: I love gymnastics. I think it’s than table tennis. What Olympic sports do you like? Daming: Basketball is my favourite sport, but I also like running. Betty: Oh no, running is than basketball. I also like cycling. Cycling is than running. Daming: No, it isn’t. I think cycling is than running. And do you like skiing? Betty: Yes, I do.But it’s than running and cycling. more boring more relaxing more tiring more dangerous more popular more exciting Activity4

Table tennis is more popular than gymnastics. Running is more boring than basketball. Cycling is more relaxing than running. 由上面例句可以看出，当表达多音节形容词 的比较级时，由 more + adj. + than + 比较的对象 构成。 Language notes: Notes:

A +be+ 形容词比较级 +than+B Tom is stronger than Lucy. Skiing is more dangerous than running. 注：在多音节和部分双音节词前，变比较级要加 Eg: beautiful--- tiring--- boring--- relaxing--- expensive--- more beautiful more relaxing more tiring more expensive more boring more. more exciting exciting---

Listen again and check the sports they like: GymnasticsBasketballRunningCycling Daming Betty Activity5

Listen and repeat: Table tennis is popular. Basketball is exciting. Gymnastics is difficult. Cycling is tiring. Running is cheap. Skiing is dangerous. Table tennis is unpopular. Basketball is boring. Gymnastics is easy. Cycling is relaxing. Running is expensive. Skiing is safe. Activity6

Speaking: Talk about the sports you like. What’s your favourite sports? I like… Why? Because it’s more…than… I think…is more…than… Activity8

1. Chinese people are very good at gymnastics. 中国人非常擅长体操。 be good at + n. doing sth. 擅长做某事 e.g. Tony is good at English. Maggie is good at playing the piano. Language notes:

根据句意，用 excited 或 exciting 填空。 1. Miss Zhao often tells us an ______ story after school. 2. Everyone is ______ by the news of Chang’e II. 3. The ______ children are opening their presents. 4. The ________ news makes everyone quite ________. exciting excited exciting excited

用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。 1.Basketball is _________ (exciting) than running. 2.I think cycling is _________ (tiring) than swimming. 3.Little Tom runs _________ (slowly) than any other student in his class. 4.Jack is not as _________ (tall) as Tom. 5.A dictionary is much ____________ (expensive) than a story-book. more exciting more tiring more slowly tall more expensive

1. 我认为这个问题比那个难。 I think this problem is _________________ than that one. 2. 在中国，乒乓球比足球受欢迎。 Table tennis is ________________ football in China. 3. 篮球比跑步更让人激动吗？ ______ basketball ____________ than running? 4. 体操和滑雪，哪一个更放松？ Which is ____________, gymnastics or skiing? more difficult more popular than Is more exciting more relaxing 练练吧

Copy the new words. Recite unit 1 Homework: