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1、st2unit08Unit 8 For the Glory of SportPart 1 Warming up AWay of measurementSportby the number of people whobaseballby the number of people who watch games on television or listen on the radioAmerican football(rugby)by the number of people who play the sportsoccerskTapescript:What is the most popular

2、 sport in the United States? That may be an impossible question to answer. There are different meanings of the words “most popular.” One way to measure the popularity of a sport is by the number of people who pay to watch it played by professional teams. Experts say the most popular American sport b

3、y that measure is baseball. Each professional baseball team plays 162 games every season. Or the popularity of a sport can be measured by the number of people who watch games on television or listen on the radio. Then the answer might be American football. And the popularity of a sport could be meas

4、ured by the number of people who play the sport instead of just watch it. The answer, in this case, is the game people in the United States call soccer. It says more than 18 million people play soccer in the United States.B.You are going to hear a teacher of an exercise class giving instructions to

5、participants while they do warm-up exercises. Each step of the exercises is illustrated below. Listen carefully and arrange the pictures in chronological order. 1. d2. h3. a4. e5. i6. c7. g8. b9. jftapescript :Right, everybody. Stand up straight. Now bend forward and down to touch you toes and up an

6、d down and up. Arms by your sides. Raise you right knee as high as you can. Hold your leg with both hands and pull your knee back against your body. Keep your backs straight. Now lower your leg and do the same with your left knee up pull towards you and down. Move your feet further apart, bend your

7、elbows, and raise your arms to shoulder level. Squeeze your fists tightly in front of your chest. Now push your elbows back keep your head up! And relaxFeet together, and put your hands on your hips. Now bend your knees and stretch your arms out in front of you. Hold that position now up. Stretch yo

8、ur arms out to the sides at shoulder height, palms up. Rotate your arms in small circles thats right and now the other way. Now stand with your hands clasped behind your neck and your legs apart. Bend over to the left, slowly, but as far as you can. And slowly up. And down to the right. And up. OK i

9、f were all warmed up now, lets begin!Part 2 The sporting spiritA. Here are three short extracts from a conversation between a group of friends. They are talking about football supporters. Listen carefully and answer the following questions.Section 11. In this section, the speaker talks about his nei

10、ghbors. Write down the key words that he uses to describe them on different occasions.a. in daily life: nice / friendly / warm/ affectionateb. after a football match: drunk/ aggressive/ scream/ shout/ push people around/ smash glasses / monsters2. From what you have heard, what inferences can you dr

11、aw about the speakers attitude towards football fans?He finds it difficult to understand why normal, nice people behave so badly at football matches.Section 23. According to the third speaker in this section, how do Brazilians behave when they go to football matches?enjoy themselves/ no aggression o

12、r violence.Section 34. From what you have heard in this section, what are the other matches that large crowds go to besides football ones?rugby/ tennis5. When people go to Wimbledon, how do they behave?They sit there silently throughout. ru:autTapescript:1. M: I have neighbors who, who are very nice

13、, friendly, warm, affectionate people, and I live near a football ground, Tottenham, and on Saturday I avoid them, because they come back from the match about 6 oclock, 7 oclock drunk, aggressive they scream, they shout, and After the World Cup Fi, after the World Cup when English got knocked out, I

14、 was in my local pub and they came in and they started frightened and I walked out, and I dont understand, I really dont understand what it is about a football match that can turn ordinary, friendly people into monsters.2.JE: But do you think thats so of a lot of football fans? I mean, Ive heard oth

15、er people say theyve gone to football matches and theres been absolutely no trouble in the terraces at all, and people have been sat there, you know, quite happily, opposing teams next to each other.Oh but it obviously does happen a lot. I mean, you see it on the news. What happens when British fans

16、 go to Europe? Theres always trouble, isnt there?M: Well, but its, its not itsIn Brazil, for example, where Ive also been to football matches, people go to enjoy themselves, and theres no aggression or violence, or theres nothing like that. It seems peculiarly, it seems particular to England and a f

17、ew other countries that football provides people with the opportunity to show their most violent, aggressive natures.3.A: But perhaps its just a function of people getting together in crowds, large groups of people getting into enclosed spaces together.J: But large crowds go to other kinds of matche

18、s go to rugby matches, go to Wimbledon to watch tennis M: Go to pop concerts J: If they go to Wimbledon to watch tennis, they sit there silently throughout.A: Yes, but its interesting that one of the solutions that the police have, think might work is to have all-seater matches, for example, where e

19、verybodys seated The following passage you are going to hear is from “The Sporting Spirit” written by George Orwell. Now listen and enjoy. Supply the missing words. I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between nations, and that if only the common people of the wor

20、ld could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didnt know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests led to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles.

21、 Nearly all the sports practiced nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do you utmost to win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun and exercise:but as soo

22、n as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level, sport is frankly mimic warfare. But the sig

23、nificant thing is not the behavior of the players but the attitude of the spectators: and, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe at any rate for short periods that running and kicking a ball are tests of national virtu

24、e.Part 3 Extracurricular activitiesA. Now listen to a talk about the extracurricular activities at a secondary school in Canada. Focus on the main idea and the major points in it and then complete the outline below with the missing information.Outline. The speakers self-introductionA. occupation: a

25、secondary school teacher.Involvement in extracurricular activities1. primarily in the sports field2. supporting many of the other areas. Extracurricular activities offered in the schoola. sporting activities1) an inter-school activity2) an intramural activityb. the music program1) two partsa) bandb)

26、 chorus/ choir2) advantage: good for the students personal development3) specialty groupsa) jazz bandb) jazz singersc. other extracurricular activities1) a math club2) a science club3) an annual club4) a newspaper club5) an outdoors club6) a chess club7) a cooking club. The reasons why these extracu

27、rricular activities are offereda. helping students fill their time in a positive wayb. helping students build skills which may be used for their future vocationc. providing fun and enjoyment1) for teachers: in sponsoring the activities2) for students: in participating the activitiesB. Now listen aga

28、in. But this time, pay more attention to some of the details in the talk. After that, you are going to hear some statements. Decide whether they are true or false.1. F2. F3. T4. F5. TTapescript: It is my pleasure today to tell you a little bit about extracurricular activities at the secondary school

29、 level in British Columbia. I have been teaching in the town of Cotney, a small town of about 10, 000 people, 130 miles north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Ive been teaching at the junior secondary level, Grades 7, 8 and 9 as well (as) the senior secondary level, Grades 10, 11 and 12.My involveme

30、nt in extracurricular activities has been quite broad, primarily in the sports field, but also in supporting many of the other areas in the school. But let me get into specifics about what kind of things are offered in our schools here. We have two different kinds of sporting activities. One of them

31、 is what we call an inter-school activity where one school competes against another. And that level of sport is reserved just for the elite athletes of the school, the very good athletes. We also have an intramural program, which means within the walls of the school so that every student in the scho

32、ol is invited to participate. It is, its focused largely on participation and many of our students do participate. We have over 60 percent of our student body involved in our intramural program. But let me not focus just on sports. There is another very large area of extracurricular activity in the music program. The music program is broken into two main parts. One is b