3. 1. What sports do
people play in China?
2. Do you like sports?
3. What sports do you
play?

4. Dialogues
Drills
Activities

5. New Beijing, Great Olympics
Dialogues A
New Beijing, Great Olympics
(On July 13, 2001,Wang Dong met Li Hong at the school gate.)
Wang: Good news! The Olympic Games will be held in
Beijing in 2008.
Li: We won at last!
Wang: Do you know the Olympic motto?
Li: Yes, it’s “faster, higher, stronger”.
Wang: It means that every athlete should try to run faster,
jump higher and throw further.
Li: They do their best to win medals.
Wang: The track and field are the heart of Olympics.
Some events take place on a track, but some on
city roads.

6. A Dialogues Li: Do you mean the marathon? Wang: Yes, and the athletes
have to run 42 km
without stopping.
Li: They need not only
speed but also
endurance.

7. athlete：
sportsman

8. medal：

9. thing that happens, esp. sth. important
event：
thing that happens, esp. sth. important

10. state or power of enduring
endurance：
state or power of enduring

11. B Dialogues A Soccer Match
(David and Li Ming went to an international soccer match.)
David: The first half has already started. We are late.
Li: It doesn’t matter. We’ve lost only five minutes. Look,
the Korea team is in red and the Japanese team is in
white.
David: Do you mean the R.O. Korea team? Both teams are
playing very well.
(They watched the match and cheered for both sides.)
Li: What’s the time now, David?
David: There are two minutes to go by my watch. The score
is still zero to zero.
Li: Look, number 9 has got the ball. He is just coming by. B

12. David: He is going to shoot! Come on!
Li: Come on! Shoot!
David: It’s a goal!
Li: What a goal! Have you ever seen
a better goal than that one?
David: Great! He is the best player on
the field.
Li: They’ve got only 40 seconds, but
they’ve done it! Listen, the game
is over and they’ve won the first
half 1 to 0.
David: The Japanese team is not bad. I
think they will score during the
second half.

13. soccer：
football

14. matter：
be important

15. team：
group

16. number of points made by both players or teams in a game
score：
number of points made by both players or teams in a game

17. to try to kick the ball into the goal
shoot：
to try to kick the ball into the goal

18. goal：

19. Drills We went to an international soccer match a boxing match
a basketball game
a swimming meet
last night.

20. Drills match. fight. game. It was a good meet. zero to zero (0:0).
five to two (5:2).
three all (3:3).
four nothing (4:0).
The score was

21. Activities
Look at the pictures in your TEXTBOOK. Can you name the sports?
2. Memorize the names of the sports. Act out the sports in mime.