Overall objective: To develop skimming and
scanning skills
Language objective: To learn nouns
Civic education: pre reading,while reading,post reading.
Warm up:
·
show them these pictures and ask them what they know about
each of them?
·
Writi on the board : free ride,free style,alpin half pipe and
ask them to match the pictures to these styles and talk about the differences
·
Ask them about the equipment these sportsmen wear
Activity one:
Read this text carefully and give these given
titles to each passage:
1. Snowboarding is like
skiing but it
more close to
surfing and skateboarding. While skiers
exercise control by
moving their weight
from one side
to the other, snowboarders move
weight from heel
to toe. When their
weight is forward, their boards speed
up; as they move back, their
boards slow down. When
snowboarders press their
heels down their
boards, they stop. A snowboard is
a piece of
wood surrounded by fiberglass to
make it hard
and light. Steel along
the sides helps
the rider turn
and control speed.
2. Like skiers, snowboarders who
race wear hard-shell
boots but most
snowboarders prefer soft boots
to perform the
tricks. Bindings are
mechanism that hold
the rider’s boots
into the board
are fixed on
top of the
board. The most popular
type, belt bindings, safe the
boots with an
ankle belt and
a toe belt.
Step-in bindings are
used mainly for hard
boots. A new
design, called flow-in bindings,
combines the control
of strap-in systems.
Flow-in bindings have a
large tongue that
covers most of
the top of
the boot, the
rider’s foot enters
through the backside.
Bindings may be
positioned differently on
the board depending
on a snowboarder
rides with his
left foot in
front of the
right or with
the right foot.
3. There are three
main styles of
snowboarding, and it has
different type of
board:
One of
them is Free-riding
when the snowboarder
rides down and
perform tricks in
the air. The
free-ride snowboard or
all-mountain snowboard, is
the most popular. Freestyle snowboarding
combines tricks such
as flips, turning, holding
the board in
the air. These
tricks are usually
performed on man-made
features in snowboard
terrain parks. The
freestyle board is
short, wide, flexible, and comfortable
for the beginners.
Similar to skiing,
Alpine-style of snowboarding means downhill
speed and sharp
turns. The Alpine boards
look like large
skis and are narrower
than other boards.
4. One of the
most popular terrain
features for freestyle
riders is the
halfpipe. It looks
like a letter
U. Snowboarders ride down
one side of
the halfpipe and
up the other. The
snowboarding halfpipe was
born in 1978, so
the story goes, when
a group of
high school students
in California, began piling
snow around canyon to
make it deep
enough to ride
their snowboards and
perform skateboard tricks. Tom
Sims built a
halfpipe for the
World Snowboarding Championships
in California in
1983. Early snowboarding halfpipes
were constructed by
hand, but in
1990 was invented
a cutting machine
called a Pipe Dragon
which made it
possible for ski
resorts to clean
their halfpipes regularly.
5. Like skiing, snowboarding is a
very dangerous sport. Snowboarders risk
to injuries their
hands because their
feet are locked
into the bindings
on the board. Falls
are common among
beginners that’s why
snowboarding has its
own protective equipments. Helmets and
wrist guards are
important and knee
pads are also
popular. All snowboarders, like skiers, should wear
waterproof jackets and
pants. Any style
of snowboard needs
a safety things.
A.
The styles
of snowboarding.
B.
special
snowboarding track for
freestyle.
C.
What is
snowboarding.
D.
Snowboarding’s protective things.
E.
The
construction of snowboard.
Activity two:
Find these nouns in this text, underline them
and tell in which paragraph they are. There are two words in each paragraph.
Helmets,
Steel, tongue, wood, flips, wrist, canyon, bindings, halfpipe, tricks.
Activity three:
Answer the
questions.
1) When was the snowboarding
halfpipe born ?
2) What are bindings?
3) What should all
snowboarders wear?
4) What does freestyle
snowboarding combine?
5) When was a halfpipe built
for the Championships in California?
a) 1978
b) 1983
c) 1990
6) Which style is the most
popular?
a) Freestyle
b) Alpine
c) Freeride
Activity
four: (post reading)
Write
two words from each paragraph what you were reading about.
Write a
short essay which it your favorite winter sport?