Ⅰ. Teaching aims and demands
1.Learn some useful words and expressions:
the People’s Republic of China, winner, grass, visitor, improve,
environment, ourselves
2.Learn “There be” sentence pattern in the Simple Future Tense:

(1)There will be more roads.
(2)There will be more subways. ect.
3.Talk about the Olympic games:

(1)The People’s Republic of China took part in the Olympics for the first
time in 1952.
(2)Some information about the Olympics Beijing has taken part in.
(3)Beijing will host the 29th Olympic Games in the year 2008.
4.Review the Simple Past Tense and the Simple Future Tense:

(1)China won 28 gold medals in the 2000 Sydney Olympics…
(2)Beijing will host the 2008 Olympic Games.
(3)How old will you be in 2008?
(4)What should we do for the Beijing Olympics in 2008?

II. Teaching Procedure:
1.Warming-up
Talk about the sports we’ve learnt by showing the pictures of the five
mascots, using the simple future tense. For example:
A: What will you do this afternoon?
B: I will play basketball.
Have a discussion on what the mascots stand for. The teacher introduce
some information about the mascots. “Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying,
Nini” stands for “Welcome to Beiing.”
2.leading-in
Show the new words and phrases by talking something about the Olympics.
T: Beijing will host the 2008 Olympics. This is the very first time for the

People’s Republic of China to host it. As we know, China took park in the
Olympics long time ago. We took part in the Los Angeles Olympics, we took
part in the Sydney Olympics and we took part in the Athens Olympics.We’ve
won many gold medals in history. And if you want to get the gold medals you
should be thewinner.
List and read the new words and phrases.
3.Read and understand.

1).Listen and read the passage in the flash for the first time, trying to
answer one question: Which Olympics will Beijing host in 2008 ?
2).Read the passage on the books for the second time. And try to do the true
or false questions alone.
3).Read the passage for the third time. Work with the partner, and try to fill
the chart.
WhenWhereWhat

1952
China took part in for the 1st time

Los Angeles
China won 28 gold medals
2004
China will host the 29th Olympics
4).Help the students retell the passage according to the information in the
chart.
5). Read aloud the passage after the teacher.
4. Practice