一、导读：

Key phrases：

1. idiom    2. find one’s way into    3. league   4. opposing/oppose/opposed/opposite/opponent

5. insurance/insure/ensure    6. complain/complaint    7. unintentionally/intentional/intention/intent

8. handle /cope with/deal with/do with/approach/address/wrestle with  9. cruel/cruelty

10. throw in the towel    11. throw sb a curveball  12.  score an own goal

Key sentences：

Sport is challenging and so is life. be thought to do--/ have done---

be used to do----/ be used to doing---/ used to do---

二、导学：

Step 1   Discuss the topic of idioms by filling in the following table

Step 2   Read the article and then fill in the following chart

Step 3 Key sentences

1. The English language is full of idioms which are thought to have come from football. ( Line 10)

动词不定式的完成式： to have done  /  to have been done

If someone makes a bad mistake which unintentionally harms their own interests, they are said to have scored an

own goal.   ( Line 25)

Zhangshanfeng was said to ________________ ( invent) Tai Ji.

2. Can you imagine that every time you have a chance to score, the goalposts are moved?   ( Line 15)

every time  ( 连词)， 不能与连词 when连用

类似的连词： each time/ the first time/ next time/ the last time

The last time it was on exhibition, crowds waited in line for hours for the rare chance to see the famous painting

with their own eyes.           ( Line 44  Unit 2  选择性必修一)

Next time ___________ you come to Yizheng, I will treat you to a big dinner.

3. You might have heard expressions like “in the ballpark” or “a ballpark estimate”.  ( Line 31)

might do might be doing might have done  ( 表示对过去的猜测)

类似的用法： must have done / can ( could ) have done/ can’t (couldn’t ) have done

4.This idiom is often used to talk about situations where people fail after wasting three chances.

 [归纳拓展] 

where = in which…. 在定语从句中作状语

The college courses can’t prepare the students for all the situations   _________ appear in their future life.

                                                        __________ they meet many challenges.

6.. Sport is challenging and so is life.     ( Line 59)

So + be/ 情态动词/ 助动词 + 主语， 表示前者---， 后者也---

Neither/ Nor + be/ 情态动词/ 助动词 + 主语， 表示前者不---， 后者也不---

so is life.  = life is also challenging.       生活也是如此

Lucy works hard. So_____________ Class One.

Lucy hasn’t been to Beijing. Neither ______________ her parents.

三、达标导练  (单句语法填空)

1. Many idioms are thought to _____________(come) from football.

2. “Moving the goalposts” means someone unfairly changes the rules or ___________ ( require) for something.

3. Meanwhile, “throwing in the towel” simply means ____________( admit) defeat and giving up.

4. Since sport is an ______________ (separate) part of day-to-day life, lots of sports idioms have found their way into everyday language.

5. Just like the function of idioms, the author also makes the language of the article colorful and _______________( express). 

四、课后巩固训练（40分钟）

l 限时练习

五、反思感悟：

1. 本文的写作目的是什么？    2. 本文的结构清楚了吗？