Lesson4. Sports: More Than a Game

✓Chapter

<Sports: More Than a Game>

 

✓Topic

<Sports>

 

✓Lesson information

This lesson is related with sports. Naturally, the topic of this lesson comes to be sports. In this lesson, there are some real-episodes in the olympic games. These are quite touching episodes, but I think that these are not enough for reading sports materials. Also, it doesn't have any stimulating or reminding schema of students section.

 

✓What are these reading materials?

Therefore, I want to stimulate or building schema of sports to students. I prepared 4 reading materials. The first and second are related with olympic games. I will introduce ancient and modern olympic games. Our main text is related with olympic, so students can read easily and funny. The third and fourth are soccer reading material. One of the famous sports in the world is soccer that's why I chose these reading materials. The third one is brief information about soccer and the forth one is a text of the most famous soccer player in these days 'Lionel Messi'. With these two reading materials, students enjoy reading some texts of sports and expand their background knowledges and even common senses.
 

✓How can we use these reading materials?

Basically, I designed this chapter as an extensive reading. However, When I kept going on designing this lesson, I want to link my first two reading materials which are related with olympic games and the main text which is for olympic games also.

Therefore, after reading first two reading materials, I want to check my students opinion of olympic games. I will let them write something of olympic games. Any kind of writing is OK, for example, their impressions, watching olympic game episodes, cheerful messages to Korean athletes, or etc. It can not only stimulate and expand students' schema but also developing writing skills.
 

Procedures are here.

1. Read our main text of the textbook.

2. Read first and second reading materials.

<Ancient Olympic Games> and <Modern Olympic Games>

3. Remind those three reading materials and write something about 'Olympic Games'. You can write anything. For example, impressions of watching olympic games, watching olympic game episodes, cheerful messages to Korean athletes, or etc.

4. Share your ideas with your classmates.

 

Next two materials are related with soccer. I want students to read these materials for just getting information and fun. The combination of a most famous sport and a most famous player of that sport gives interest and fun to students.