Teaching Objectives:

1. To enlarge students’ vocabulary by applying the rules of making compound words.

2. To get students to learn some words and expressions related to Olympic sports.

3. To improve students’ speaking ability.

Teaching Important and Difficult Point:

To master the formation rules of compound words.

Teaching Approaches:

Task-based approaches

Form of Activities:

Individual, pair or group work ..

Teaching Aids:

The multimedia and the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Lead-in

Ask the students to read the following dialogue:

A: Did you know that Liu Xiang was the first Asian to win a gold medal for the men’s 110-metre hurdles in the Olympic Games?

B. Yes! Everyone knows that he is a very hard-working sportsperson. He is a well-trained winner.

Let the students study the italicized words and ask them two questions:

1. Do you know the meanings of the words?

2. Do you know how the words are made?

Give them a few minutes to think. They may discuss with their partners if necessary.

110-metre(n.)--- 110 (num.), meter (n.)

hard-working (adj.)--- hard (adv.), working(v-ing)

sportsperson (n.)--- sports(n.), person(n.)

well-trained (adj.)--- well(adv.), trained (v-ed)

Step 2. Compound words

1. Tell students that the above words are called compound words. Ask them to give the definition of a compound word:

A compound word is made when two or more than two words are joined together to form a new word.

2. Ask students to think about other words that are created this way. Organize them into groups of four and have a competition. Write all the compound words that students can think of on the blackboard. The winning group is the one that comes up with the most words.

3. Have students study the words that they have listed and then read the words on page26 to understand the formation rules of compound adjectives and compound nouns.

To form compound adjectives:

Formation Compound (adj.)

adj.+n.+-ed warm-hearted, cold-blooded

adj.+v-ing easy-going, ordinary-looking

adv.+v-ing hard-working, long-lasting

n.+adj. tax-free, world-famous

n.+v-ed air-conditioned, man-made

adj.+ v-ed Soft-boiled, well-paid

adv.+ v-ed Well-educated, well-paid

To form compound nouns:

Formation Compound

n.+n. handbag, bookmark, website, motherland

n.+ v-ing sightseeing, window-shopping, house-keeping

4. Ask the students to match the words in column A with the ones in column B.

A B

1.black a. room

2.broad b. eyed

3.every c. cast

4.bed d. case

5.blue e. where

6.suit f. board

. 7.radio g. ground

8.bus h. throw

9.reading i. driver

10.passer j. by

11.play k. paper

12.over l. active

13.news m. room

5. Ask the students to translate the words into Chinese. Explain that some English words are derived from the combination of two different words, for example:

hand-bag: a small bag carried on a person’s hand;

long-lasting: that can last for a long time;

tea-cup: a cup that contains tea;

three-day: lasting for three days;

sightseeing: the activity of seeing sights as a tourist.

6. Ask the students the following questions:

When you come across unfamiliar words, do you often use the knowledge of word formation to guess the meaning of the new word? If so, can you think of some examples?

7. Ask the students to put the following into English:

1.項(xiàng)鏈 2.雨衣

3.男朋友 4.聚會(huì)

5.書(shū)店 6. 地震

7.消防隊(duì)員 ８.氣象員

９．金魚(yú) １０．說(shuō)英語(yǔ)的

１１．握手 １２．電影制片人

１３．水面下的 １４．伐木工

8. Ask the students:

Can you recognize the formation of the following compound words? What parts of speech are they and what do they mean? Take a guess and then check in the dictionary. Try to use them in the letter below. ( page26, SB)

Step 3. Olympic sports and events.

Answers:

Part A: a (3)

b (2)

c (1)

d (4)

Part B:

Track and field events Gymnastics Water sports

Javelin throw asymmetric bars 100m freestyle

20km race walk balance bar 200m butterfly

100m sprint floor exercise platform dive

discus throw horizontal bar springboard dive

high jump parallel bars water polo

long jump individual all-round 100m backstroke

marathon rings 100m butterfly

relay race uneven bars 200m freestyle

Step 4. Homework

Revise what we have learnt today.