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Unit 1

That must be a record!

10th National Games open officially at the main stadium in Nanjing on Oct. 12, 2005.

Olympic gold medallist Liu Xiang

110-meter hurdles ( in 13.10.)

王励勤获男单冠军

Tabletennis 王励勤获男单冠军

Speed skating

高雪峰获十运会速滑全能冠军

Swimming

女子?百米蛙泳，罗雪娟夺冠

孟丽丽（中）与景瑞雪（左）和许海燕（右）在领奖台上

组图：十运女子自由式摔跤 山东辽宁摘得后两金(1)

2005-09-01 09:50:57

Wrestling

摔跤冠军 孟丽丽

The longest lecture lasted _____.

A.32.5 h

B. 62.5 h

C. 82.5h

A quiz

?

The world’s tallest man is____.

A 2.35m

B 2.45m

C 2.55m

?

The world’s youngest college graduate was

____ years old.

A. 10 B. 12 C. 14

?

The longest beard is _____.

73cm

B. 1.83m

C. 2.33M

An Indian

?

The highest number of goals in a soccer career is _____.

1,279

B. 546

C. 3,850

Pele , Brazilian

?

The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth is _____.

-75.4 ?c

-89.2 ?c

c. -110.7 ?C

Ice and snow everywhere

Vostok, Antarctic

?

Special 50th anniversary edition

The first edition of Guinness Book of World Records was published ________ .

in 1955

Listening…

Detailed information of the numbers:

1951

1955

1.6 meters

60,000

122 years and 164 days

5.71 meters

40 hectares

480 kilogrammes

Sir Hugh Beaver wanted to settle …

The first edition was published.

More than 60,000 new records are sent in to the book each year…

the longest moustache

the oldest woman

the longest poisonous snake

the largest square

the largest jiaozi

Scanning …

1.How did Sir Hugh Beaver want

to create such a book?

2. What are the categories in the

Guinness Book?

3. Give four examples of Chinese

records in the book.

4. What types of records attempts

are not allowed?

5. If you want to apply for a new

record, what should you do?

Give six key verbs.

Questions:

Careful reading …

Do exercise 2 on page 5

Para.1. Chinese records

Para.2. The birth of the book

Para.3. Records from the world of sports

Para.4. Records of different categories

Para.5. How to set a record?

Para.6. Why are people so interested in

the book?

Match the main idea of each paragraph

Divide into four parts:

Part 1: (Paragraph 1)

How and when the first edition was put out.

Part 2: (Paragraph 2-4)

The records that can be printed in the book

are put into different categories.

Part 3: (Paragraph 5)

Why people are so interested in

world records.

Part 4: (Paragraph 6)

How the Guinness Book of World

Record accepts a world record.

Graphic representation of the text

The Guinness Book of world Records (Para 1 )

Different categories of the book (Para 2 )

Chinese records in the book(Para 3)

Records from sports( Para 4)

Reasons for people’s interest in world records( Para 5)

How to be a world record holder( Para 6)

Fill in blanks:

In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver wanted to _____ an argument, he _____ two Englishmen to write the Guinness Book of World Records. The book has been a _________ since 1955. In the book, the records are put into different _________.There are many _______ records. And many of the records come from the world of _____. A few records _____ ____ because of the _______ life story behind them. People are interested in the book because they are _______ about the records and also _________ by the records. Anybody can try to ____ a record. But some records that are __________ to the person who is attempting it or to others are not _______.

settle

hired

best-seller

categories

Chinese

sports

stand

out

moving

curious

entertained

set

dangerous

allowed

Group work

Read the records and decide which one should be included in the book.

What can we learn from the stories of Hugh Beaver and Lance Armstrong?

Discussion:

Lance Armstrong with his three children

Why are Lance Armstrong’s records special?

He will retire soon after this Tour de France.

He has been a professional athlete for almost 20 years. Now he is 33 years old.

He was diagnosed with cancer.

He set the speed record and won the Tour de France six years in a row.

He won the Tour de France for the seventh time in July.

世界上最小的硬盘