●Unit One The Nature of Sports 1
Brainstorm 3
Section One Read and Think 3
Text One Sportsmen of the Year 3
Text Two Introduction 7
Text Three The Joy of Sports 15
Text Four Concerns for Excellence 22
Section Two Think by Writing 30
Unit Two Features of Sports 37
Assignment 39
Section One Elements of Sports 39
Text One Harry Potter Inspires a New Sport 40
Text Two Basketball 43
Section Two The Origin of a Sport 53
Text Three History,Cultural Context,and Terminology of Windsurf ing 53
Section Three Sport Code of Sports 59
Text Four History,Cultural Context,and Terminology of Windsurf ing 59
Text Five Closing a Deal 66
Section Four The Signif icance of Sports 68
Text Six Baseball in the Garden of Eden 68
Unit Three Collocations Related with Sports 75
Section One Notice Collocations 77
Exercise One 78
Exercise Two 79
Section Two Use Concordance Sentences to Identify Collocations 80
Exercise Three 80
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內容簡介
本教材在內容上根據體育與英語的關繫(即體育中的英語和英語中的體育)分別來選取材料:在普通英語方面,通過選擇通用英語材料體現體育與社會的關繫;在體育特殊英語方面,從術語、描述體育策略、賽事描述中的特殊詞語搭配及用法來體現如何用英語正確描述體育項目特點及過程。通過這種編排讓學生一方面可以逐漸構建體育體繫的框架,另一方面可以了解如何用英語準確恰當地描述體育項目,有助於學生之後對體育英語的學習。