The Second Period ListeningTeaching targets:1. Target language a. words and expressions: Los Angelis Lakers, Miami Heat, Manchester United, Leedsb. Comunications: On the way to this year’s play-offs Ronaldo has done more than just playing football.2. Ability goals Enable the students to improve their listening ability by listening to the test.3. Learning ability goals Help the students learn how to pick out detailed information from what they hear on the tape. Teaching important points Listen to a sports report about choosing sports star of the year and learn to make a dicision.Teaching difficult points How to improve the Ss’ listening ability. Teaching methods : Discussing or cooperative learning.Teaching Aids : a multi-media roomTeaching procedures & ways Step I Revision To review the sports words.Step II Warming upTalk about the pictures on the screen. About matches and sports stars.Step III Listening Task 1: Brainstorming(encourage Ss to tell me as many words about that as possible) Purpose: to work as a guide of listening part Task 2: Listen to three sports reports and fill in the missing information Purpose: In this activity, the students will hear three sports reports about basketball, football table tennis. It is what they are interested in and to learn to understand sports news report. Step 4. Homework Assignment Task: Find out some background information about the Olympics. Teacher will offer them some websites as well: www.olympic.or www.specialolympics.org/ www.athens.olympics.org/ www.beijing-2008.org Purpose: This activity is related to the reading material of next period. To encourage Ss to find out the information by themselves.