老师：Hello everyone, I'm Miss Zhang from Yang Shanghai School affiliate to BNU. Welcome to this lesson. Today we'll continue to learn Unit 3 on the move and we'll move on to the fourth period of of this unit. Yes, developing ideas, running into a bottle life and will mainly focus on reading. First of all, the learning goals. First to get to know something about Marathon. 2Nd, to learn how to gain information through charts or graphs. Third, to talk about the benefits and power of running. Fourth, to gain some words and expressions about winning.
老师：Are you ready? Here we go. Do you know anything about Marathon? Here's a table for you to arouse what you've known about Marathon or to offer you more information about it. For example, about its distance aeration, the first modern Marathon winner and the talented runner. The modern Marathon covers a distance of 26 miles and 385 yards, that is 42.195 km. The original purpose of Marathon is to commemorate the run of the soldier by devities from a battlefield at the side of the town of Marathon, Greece to Athens in 490 BC.
老师：The first modern Marathon winner is Spiriden Lewis with a time of 2 hours, 58 minutes and 50 seconds. There is also a talented runner that you should remember. He is earlier to keep coach the 2016 winner with time of 1:00. Yes, he has made a wonder. You can have a look and take some notes. Well, marathons have been so popular, not only in west, but also in China now. You can find the evidence in the bar chat about the Marathon participants in China, which is taken from Task 1 on page 32 in our textbook. Maybe you will have some difficulty reading charts and I will give you some guidance. Let's look at learning to learn. Charts and graphs are useful tools to collect facts and figures. And this chart is a bar chart. Bar charts are used to show how something changes over time. We used to compare data. It's important to read this title and the labels among vertical and horizontal size. So this bar chart shows us the change of the number of Marathon participants in China over years, from 2012 to 2016, with the number rising from 500000 to 2 million and 800000. We are great.
老师：So now with the facts and figures collected about American participants in China, let's try to answer some questions. No. 1, what key information is shown in the chart? Yes, the number of Marathon participants in China is increasing.
老师：Second, what reasons lie behind phenomenon? I can still offer you some hints. What about people's healthier lifestyle? Are there any relationship between people's physical fitness and Marathon? Then what about quick economic growth kind of be stimulated by Marathon and thus promote the development of the sports industry? Anyway, long distance running has become a fashion and to
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