Purpose: to help Ss get as much background knowledge about the Olympics as possible
Task 2.Group work to discuss any of following questions:
1).Why do so many athletes want to take part in the Olympic Games?
2).Are the Olympic Games important to our society? Why or why not?
Purpose: the activity is designed to get Ss to think about the Olympics as a preliminary activity related to the reading material.
Step2. Reading(10 mins)
Task1.Skimming to find out what is the reading material going to talk about.
Possible answer: the Olympics
Task2. Scanning to find the topic words
