Answer the following questions

1. What is Fun On Wheel? How did it come around?

(Follow these small questions.

1) When and where was the ramp built? And by whom?

2) Was it success?

3) When do they usually go skateboarding there?

2. How long has skateboards been around?

3. How did teenagers discover it?

4. What is the X games?

5. What kind of safety equipment do skateboarders use?

6. Why do you think some people like extreme sports?

(Following these small questions:

1) How are “extreme sports” different from traditional sports?

2) What can they get from the sports?

1. It is a skateboarding club which started by a dozen of teenagers who usually hang ten in a park where a ramp was built three years ago, which has arisen the adult’s interest and won their support.

2. Since 1970s.

3. As a result of TV shows, films, and competitions such as the X games.

4. The X games are like the Olympic Games for a new generation of sports which are less familiar to us than sports like football and basketball.

5. Helmets and other equipment which can protect them from danger.

6. First they enjoy beauty, harmony, and thrills more in extreme sports than in regular(traditional) sports.

Second the participants can have fun and enjoy the excitement of trying something new, that is to enjoy the pure joy of doing something that you did not think you could do and overcoming the fears,

Besides, they can develop friendship with each other through the X games

P 6 Exercise 2 Use some adj to describe the people.

kind-hearted, adventurous, supportive, understanding, creative, pioneer,

How do you understand this sentence, “Once you are Xperienced, your life will truly change.”

Language points:

1. trick

n. play a trick on, trick or treat, trick to open the door

v. trick sb into sth/doing sth （用計謀誘使某人做某事）

trick sb out of st （騙走某人某物）

trick sb out in(with) sth　　（用某物打扮可裝飾）

adj. tricky

2. dozen

a dozen of 一打， 十二個

a dozen (of) eggs

二十四 two dozen(s) (of)

三十六 three doz (of) eg: I’ve bought a dozen of pencils for my son. I want four dozen (of) eggs.

dozens of 許多

several / a few / some dozens of

by the dozen 按打，以打計算

in dozens 成打地

3. head down to

head vt &vi 使……朝向，前往

head down to, head for

4. skillful, adj.靈巧的，熟練的

skilled adj熟練的,有技能的

be skillful at/in = be skilled at/in

5. be around be active in a particular field 在某一領(lǐng)域或行業(yè)中活躍

have been around 有閱歷，有見識

walk around, around the world, around 8 o’clock

6. as a result of

As a result of

Because of

Owing to

On account of

Due to

7. center on 將…當(dāng)作中心或重點; 集中于

他們的談話總是圍繞著政治。　　Their talks always center on politics.

~ sth. on /upon 將某物集中在…上/集中concentrate on/upon 集中,集中(思想/注意力…) 于…

我們必須把注意力集中在效率上。We must ~ our attention on efficiency/studies.

concentrated 濃縮的　　　 concentration 注意力

9. enthusiastic over, for, about 熱心于，狂熱于

He became enthusiastic about classical music.