Lesson 2 Extreme Sports

Welcome to Extreme Sports Café !

Which sport is more exciting and dangerous? Rock climbing攀岩

Extreme sports

What do we call this kind of sportsMore exciting ! More dangerous!

vocabularyextreme bungee jumping snowboarding snowrafting adj.极度的，极端的 n.蹦极 n.单板滑雪 n.动力雪橇滑降

in order togymnastics

为了n.体操，体育

similarity upside down exactly

n.相似性，类似性 颠倒地，倒置地 adv.确切地，精确地

riskexcitement

vt.冒险n.兴奋，激动

variousflow

adj.不同的，各种各样的vi.流动，涌出

equipment dull

n.配备，设备

adj.暗淡的，迟钝的n.偏爱 出现，到场

preferenceturn up

back outget across jog

决定不履行使理解

vi.慢跑

Extreme sports

bungee Jump蹦极 Can you describe this kind of sport? You jump off a bridge, and you fall and fall .… Just before you hit the ground or water, the rope pulls you back.

Extreme sports

Can you describe this kind of sport?You jump out of an plane and use a board to ‘surf’.

Sky surfing 空中滑翔

ListeningListening Strategies Before you listen, always look for clues (线索) that will help you. Understand what you are going to listen to. e.g. the title, pictures, captions, etc. Use your knowledge of the world to predict answers to the questions. Guess the answers which you can then check when you are listening.

Listening1. Listen and check your answers for exercise 21. People do extreme sports in order to feel ______ A. excited B. nervous C. happy

2.Extreme sports have become popular in the last______ A. 5 years B. 10 years C. 20 years

3.People usually bungee jump from______ A. aeroplanes B. high buildings

C. bridges

体操

4. In sky surfing people do mid-air ______ A. gymnastics B. dancing C. swimming 5.Snowboarding has similarities with______A. skiing B. surfing C. canoeing

6. Snowrafting is ______ A. quite dangerous B. very dangerous

C. not very dangerous

7.For white-water rafting you need ______ A. a big river B. a warm river C. a mountain river 8.Ice pers______ A. swim under the ice B. walk on the bottom of lakes C. walk upside down under the ice

Listening Listen to two people talking about extreme sports. Complete the table. sports carollikes

Bungee jumpingTennis Sky surfing

doesn’t likewould like to try wouldn’t like to try

Snow rafting

Listening Listen again and complete the sentences. What sort of extreme sports do you do? ---I _____ bungee jumping. It’s great, like really exciting.What about other extreme sports? I’d like to try ---Mm, _____________ sky surfing, but it’s expensive, you know.