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Unit 2

The Olympic Games Period 4.

Reading, Listening & Writing (Using Language)

Teaching Goals:

1. To learn more about the ancient Olympic Games. 2. To learn to imagine and write an ending of an unfinished passage. Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Leading-in Purpose: To review some words related to the passage. Stimulate Ss’ interest in fairy tales about the ancient Olympic Games. T: In the first text, we have learned something about the Olympic Games, yes or no? S: Yes.

T: Can you still remember where the ancient Olympic Games started?

S: Greece T: What do you call the people or the language of this country?

S: Greek T: Greece is an ancient country full of stories; do you think so?

S: Yes.

T: Now, let’s look at the picture coming from the ancient country.

T: Class, it is obvious that the two pictures tell us a magical legend. Do you know what happened to the four persons?

S: No

T: Ok, next let’s turn to page 14 and read the story about the four persons. Step 2. Reading

I. Skimming Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the passage.

Read the text quickly for the first time and find out the main idea of the passage. (It’s about Atlanta who raced to __marry____ the man who can run __faster____ than her. In order to win the race, Hippomenes asked for help from ___the Goddess of Love_______.)

II. Skipping Answer the questions according to the text. 1. Who was Atlanta? 2. What was she good at? 3. Who did she want to marry? 4. How could Hippomenes win Atlanta?

III. Scanning Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text.

Read the text again and then do the following true or false questions. 1. She practised running to compete in the Olympic Games.

2. At first Hippomenes understood why men ran against Atlanta.

3. Atlanta was not sure she could win.

4. She was so angry about the fact that she could not run in the Olympics.

5. She made as many men as she could

share her pain.

6. Her father did not understand her wish to compete in the Olympics.

7. He did not refuse her wish to choose her husband in a race. Suggested Answers: 1. F

2. F

3. F

4. T

5. T

6. T

7. T IV. Summary Atlanta, a very beautiful Greek ________, ran the fastest in Greece, but she was not _______ to take part in the Olympic Games. She was angry and decided not to ______ anyone who could not run faster than her. She made a ________ with her father

and made her ______ that if a man wanted to _______ her, she would run against him. If he could not run as ____ as her, he would be ______.

Hippomenes decided to marry Atlanta after he saw her. And he went to ask the Greek Goddess of Love for _____. She promised to help him and _____ him three golden apples. She told him to ______ an apple in front of Atlanta when she was ________ fast. When she stopped to ______ it up, he would be able to run ______ her and win. Hippomenes took the apples, went to the King and told him that he wanted to marry

Atlanta. V. Discussion Purpose: To make Ss further understand the text. Discuss in pairs:

What will happen during the race between Hippomenes and Atlanta?

Who do you think will win the race? Step 3

Listening I. Before Listening Try to work out the order of the following sentences. (

) One man wanted to win and marry Atlanta very much.

(

) Atlanta married him and they lived happily ever after. (

) When the race began, Atlanta ran past him. (

) He asked the Goddess of Love for help. (

1 ) Atlanta was a very beautiful princess. (

) Many men tried to compete with her, but failed and so were killed. (

) She stopped to pick them up. (

) She gave him three golden apples. (

) She ran too slowly and he won. (

) He threw the golden apples one after another. (

) She could run faster than any man in Greece. II. Listen to the tape and check whether you were correct. (The correct order: 4 – 11 – 7 – 5 – 1 – 3 – 9 – 6 – 10 – 8 – 2) Listen to the tape and write down the main idea in one sentence. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________

III. Listen to the tape again and fill in the blanks. Then read this paragraph with expression. Hippomenes was waiting when Atlanta came out. She thought, “I __________ this man ______!” So she said to her father, “Tell him __________. The race _____________ today.” But Hippomenes said, “These are ________: She _________________ who _________ than her! ________-- let’s run!”

IV. Discussion Purpose: To make Ss further understand the text. Discuss these questions in groups. 1. If you were Hippomenes, would you run against Atlanta? 2. Do you think Hippomenes deserved to win the race? Why or why not? 3. How do you think Atlanta felt when she discovered Hippomenes had had help from the Goddess of Love? If you were Atlanta, would you agree to marry Hippomenes?

Step 4.

Talking and writing Group work

Ask Ss to talk about the possible ending in groups of four. After discussing, let every student write down the result they have got. And then ask some Ss to read out their results.

For your reference

(Various possible endings are allowed. Here are three kinds of different results.):

(1). Hippomenes was killed because of losing his race. (2). Hippomenes ran faster than Atlanta and married her. (3). Atlanta and Hippomenes fell in love with each other at first sight. In spite of this, he still had to run the race, and unfortunately he lost the race and was killed by the king without being stopped by Atlanta in time. Atlanta was so sad that she killed herself before Hippomenes’ dead body.

Step 5.

Homework

Get Ss to read and underline all the useful expressions in the passage. Copy them to your notebook as homework after class. Useful expressions in The Story Of Atlanta:

be allowed to, hear of…, as fast as, change one’s mind, ask… for …from…, pick up, confident about…, compete with…