教学目标：
1．掌握重点单词和词组：take an active part in, catch up with, neck and neck, go on doing sth,
2．熟练掌握as…as 句型的用法.
3．能读懂课文的短文并能回答问题。
教具：教学磁带，图片，挂图，接力棒和卡片。
教学过程：
Step 1 Revision.
1．写出下列形容词、副词的比较级和最高级形式：good, far, long, short, slow.
出示图片，根据图片提问：
What are the girls doing?
Does Zhang Ping run faster than Helen?
Who win the game?
What are the boys doing?
Who swims highest?
Does Jack swim as quickly as Xiao An?
2. Revise the vocabulary of sports meetings.
A: Which kinds of sports are there in a sports meeting?
B: There are 100-metre race, 400-metre race, 800-metre race, long jump and high jump, and so on.
Step2 Presentation
利用挂图、插图、接力棒等教授本课词汇。并通过这些图示，要求学生反复练习这些词汇。
Pre-read
Ask the students to discuss the questions on page 37. Then ask the students to discuss what is happening in the pictures on page 37.
Step3 Reading
1. Let the students read the passage to find the answer to the question: Which two classes were in front? (Class 1 and Class 3)
2. Ask the students to draw a chart of the race like this:
Lap1
Lap2
Lap3
Lap4
Class 1
Yu Yan
Wu Peng
Class 2
dropped stick
Jiang Honglin
Class 3
Li Lei
Jim
Lin Tao
Class 4
fell & hurt leg
Who ran Lap 1 for Class 3?
3. Listen to the tape, and answer these questions:
Where did Mr. Hu stand?
Who passed the stick to Yu Yan?
Did he catch up with Jim?
Which Class runner dropped the stick when he was passing it on to the last runner?
Who hurt his leg and stopped running?
4. Explain the language points.
1) get ready to do/be ready to do 准备做…… 例如：
强调行为 强调状态
I will get ready to leave for Shanghai.
I’m ready to help you.
get ready/be ready + for sth.
I'm ready( = I have got ready)for the exam.
Are you ready for the spelling? Yes, We are all ready.
2) But he quickly got up and went on running. 但他迅速爬起来继续赛跑。
go on doing sth. 意为:继续做某事。如：He went on talking about the film after the guest left. 客人走后，他继续谈论那场电影。
注意：这句话的意思是指客人在场时，他也在谈论电影。如果用下一种表达方法，则意思有改变：
He went on to talk about a film after the guest left. 客人走后，他(改变话题)开始谈论一场电影。
这个句子的形式是：to go on to do sth.