Baseball bound (P4)

【文章内容】

本文以第一人称的方式讲述了高中时与其父亲外出观看棒球赛的一次经过，贴合实际，适合学生口语训练和写作模仿。

【教案介绍】

本文以过去时间为线索进行行文，可以视为一篇日记后感，值得学生仿写  

Step I: Lead-in

1. Ask students what sports they like and whether they had watched a certain game with their father or mother.

2. A brief introduction of American baseball games. (or this can be played at the end of the lesson as an extension of the article.)

Baseball is considered America 's pastime

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Step II: Fast reading

1. Skim the passage quickly to find out the main idea of it in about 30 words.

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(who, when, where, what…)

2. Then divide the whole passage into four parts, write down the main idea of each part

Step III: Detailed reading

1. Ask students to read the passage quickly and find the adjectives that show the writer's feelings about the game, then have students discuss why the writer uses those words and what the words' functions are.

favorite ; beautiful ; important ; popular ; special

2. Students find the words and phrases out of the article according to the hints of their Chinese meanings.

1) 高中毕业年级 2) 本应该在学校

3) （球）赛季 4) 肩并肩地

5) 父子 ( 关系 ) 6) 一瓶苏打水

7) 完美地 8) 糟糕地

9) 一直地 10) 认真地

11) 娱乐，消遣 12) 细节

Step IV. Mock writing

Students can do group work to finish this part

Write a similar experience to the article like a concert, a football match, a basketball game, etc.

First students choose their subject and have a group discussion

Then students write down their writing structure with each part having a main idea

1________________________________

2________________________________

3________________________________

4________________________________

Then students develop their writing and revise their work after they swap

Several pieces of fine work should be appreciated or revised together with all the students after most of the students have finished the task, if time allows.

参考答案：

Answers to step II:

1 . The author went with his dad to watch their favorite baseball team play in its first home game of the season. He believed that they were more friends than just father and son . And he shared a special moment with his father in t he beautiful stadium.

2.

Answer to step III

1. favorite -- We had tickets to watch our favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, play in its first home game of the season. This adjective shows their happiness and excitement.

beautiful -- We entered the stadium and then we saw the field for the first time. It was beautiful. The grass was perfectly cut. The lines on the field were painted bright white. The sky was blue. It looked like a painting. But it was real. This adjective shows they were impressed by the view.

important -- The details of the game are not important. Just know it's a sport where one team tries to score more than the other and fans take it very seriously. This adjective shows that there are more important aspects to baseball than the details of the game.

popular -- Baseball is considered America 's pastime, it is the sport that has been very popular for generations, which means it's very important. And it is, but not because of the games, but because of the memories those games create. This adjective shows why baseball games are so important to them.

special -- In the end, I don't remember who won. But I do remember I shared a special moment with my father. This adjective sums up the writer's feeling about this experience and actually all the above together showed what made this experience special.

2.

1) 高中毕业年级 the senior year of high school

2) 本应该在学校 should have been in schoo l

3) （球）赛季 the season

4) 肩并肩地 side by side

5) 父子 ( 关系 ) father and son

6) 一瓶苏打水 a soda

7) 完美地 perfectly

8) 糟糕地 badly

9) 一直地 all the time

10) 认真地 seriously

•  娱乐，消遣 pastime

•  细节 detail