Language focus: train, training, captain, deserver, confident, strike, shot

Teaching Objectives:

1. Understand the text.

2. Learn some useful expressions.

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

1.    Check homework.

2.    Act out the dialogue in Lesson 61.

III. Leading in

Ask the Ss: Which football team do you like in our country? Why? Did you watch the match yesterday/ last time in CCTV? Can a football player use his or her hand? (Only one can do this, which one?)

 Get the Ss to discuss the questions:

1.    Do you like watching or playing football? Why?

2.    What do you think make a good football player?

In pairs, discuss them, and ask them share their answers.

IV. Presentation

Let the students discuss the picture first, then ask: What’s happening in the paragraph? Then get the students to read the instructions. Try to find the answer. (The boy’s team has some very good players, but they were too confident, they played carelessly, so they deserved to lose.)

V. Reading

Look at Exercise 1 in the workbook. Read through the questions first, then read the text carefully. Discuss the answers with the partners. Finally check the answers with the whole class.

Deal with some difficulties in the passage.

VI. Practice

Play the tape. Listen to it and then repeat sentence by sentence. Give the students a few minutes to read the text aloud. Check their pronunciation.

VII. Workbook

Go through Exercises 2 and 3. Let the students do them individually, then check the answers together. The answers to Exercise 2 are: football, with, beat, lost, beaten, unhappy, confident, joke, carelessly, well, half, lost, win, teamwork.

VIII. Consolidation

Review the football vocabulary, then let the students retell the story.

IX. Homework

1. Finish off the workbook exercises.

2. Revise the story.