L/O/G/O Li YueLi Yue

Basketball player——Yao Ming

Hurdle player——Liu Xiang

Football player—— David Backham

Diving player——Guo Jingjing

Table tennis player

Deng Yaping

The Williams sisters

Serena Williams

Venus Williams

Paragraph 1: Venus and Serena Williams are both

_______.Paragraph 2:The sisters were born in ________________.

Paragraph 3:The sisters’ ______ trained them to play

tennis, while their _________ taught them at home.

Paragraph 4:The sisters’ road to _______ has been

amazing. And they get on ____ with each other.

Paragraph 1:

Venus and Serena Williams are both _______________.

Paragraph 2:

The sisters were born in ___________________

_____________.

tennis champions

a poor and dangerous

area of California

Paragraph 3:

The sisters’ ______ trained them to play tennis, while their _________ taught them at home.

Paragraph 4:

The sisters’ road to _______ has been amazing.

And they get on _____ with each other.

fathermother

successwell

Listen and read after the tapeListen and read after the tape

• Circle the following words and guess the meaning of them while listening.

champion, train, look back, compete against, express an interest in,

come to an end, amazing, keen, fortunately, make progress, improve

1 to make sb. professional by practise

2 think of the past

3 (of feeling) surprise or wonder

4 try to win sth. by defeating others who

are do the same

5 One that wins first place or first prize in

a competition

Match the Key Words with the explanations.

look back

amazing

compete against

champion

train

6 to become better

7 be over , finish

8 (of feeling) eager to do sth,want to do sth

strongly

9 with or by good chance or luckily

10 development, especially towards a better

situation

11 to show one’s attention to something

improve

come to an end

fortunately

keen

make progress

express an interest in

• Complete the following sentences, using the Key Words.

1 Bailey __________against athletes half his age and won at last.

2 My health finally began to ___________ when I changed to a less stressful job.

3 Max’s success as a runner is really________

4 Parents _______________________ the amount of violence in some children’s shows.

competed

improve

express an interest inamazing

come to an endcome to an end

• 6 I broke my arm but _________ it’s fine now

• 7 When the concert _________________, the crowd poured out of the hall.

• 8 Are you ______ to play tennis this afternoon?

• 9 He kept working hard at English and _______ great __________ in it.

• 10 Yang Liwei ___________ the past five years when he was __________ as an astronaut.

made progress

looked backtrained

fortunately

keen

Further readingFurther reading

Task 1 Task 2

fill in the table match the headings

Who Venus Williams Serena Williams

Rank in the world

When and where to move

What to study at college

Prizes

Task 1: fill in the table

Who Venus Williams Serena Williams

Rank in the world

When and where to move

What to study at college

Prizes

11 3

In 1991,they moved to a safer area

Both are studying design at college

has won the Wimbledon and the US Open twice.

In 1999 and 2002,

won the US Open.In 2002and 2003, the women’s singles champion at Wimbledon

( )the sisters’ road to success.

( )the brief introduction to the sisters.

( )the background of their growing up.

( )the sisters’ tennis training and study.

Task 2: match the headings and the paragraphs

( )the sisters’ road to success. ( )the brief introduction to the sisters. ( )the background of their growing up. ( )the sisters’ tennis training and study.

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1 How to become a tennis star

Tennis is my favorite sport

•Tennis stars- Williams sisters

Speaking:Speaking:

brilliant, fast,

skillfull, smart, strong,

useful……

awful, boring, lazy,

slow, terrible, useless, weak……

A: I think Yao Ming is a brilliant player. He is very fast and skillful.B: Yes, I agree. I think he’s very smart./ I don’t agree with you. In my opinion, he is a little weak.

positive negative

How to describe Your Description

• advantages and disadvantages:

• In my opinion…..

• I think……

• Personally,…..

• ……………………………….

Free talk:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of being sports stars?

Sum upSum up

• To be very successful sport stars, people must make great effort, maybe they suffered from a lot of pain, but they succeeded at last, like Liu xiang . So if you want to be a successful person, you should learn the spirit from them, to face the challenge, to challenge yourselves, can you make it ?

• Homework• ① Surf online to find out more

information about your favourite sports star, and make a poster for him/her

• ②Prepare the grammar for next period.

•Thank you