文档介绍：Unit 2
The honourable games
Reading(1)
南京市人民中学
Talk about the Olympics:
As we all know, the Olympic Games are held every four years and it is a great honor for a country to host the games. How much do you know about the Olympics, for example, its history, ceremonies and sporting events?
How many Olypmic games did you see? Where were they held?
you think they are exciting?
is your favourite athlete and who do you think is the greatest Olympian?
Fast reading:
Go through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find the answers to the questions in Part A.
is the speech about?
were the ancient Olympic Games held?
restarted the modern Olympic Games?
The history and significance of the Olympic Games.
At Olympia in Greece.
Pierre de Coubertin.
Read the passage again plete Parts C1and C2 individually.
to the speech, the speaker is
an athlete.
first ancient Olympic Games were held in AD776.
the past, only athletes that spoke Italian were allowed pete.
aim of the modern Olympic Games is to make countries and pete side by side.
an LOC member
776BC
Greek
live peacefully
first modern Olympic Games were held in Rome in 1896.
Yaping won four Olympic gold medals for tennis.
Rome
tennis
Athens
table tennis
C2:
Name
Nationality
Which Olympic
Olympic achievements
Other information
Muhammand Ali
1960 Rome Olympics
Michael Jordan
Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopian
Xu Haifeng
Deng Yaping
Liu Xiang
American
Gold medal, boxing
original name Cassius Clay,won his first World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in 1964;lit the Olympic flame at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
American
1984 Los Angles Olympics;1992 Barcelona Olympics
two gold medals, basketball
the highest scorer for the USA basketball team at the 1984 Olympics
1996 Atlanta Olympics;2000 Sydney Olympics
two gold medals, distance running
first became famous in 1992;broke world record for the 10 km run
Chinese
1984 Los Angle