Learning about Language教学实录及点评

Unit 2. The Olympic Games

----The story of Atlanta Three times before class Show some sayings about apples that students have learned.1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 2. You are the apple of my eye. 3.Women and men are like apples and oranges. 4.The man is a rotten apple.

Through the simple saying attract studengts attention and run through the total class. Teaching aims This lesson will be used as a text/reading to strengthen their reading skills. Kowledge aims: Let students know the main idea、some key details and the structure of the passage. Ability aims: Let students get acquaintance with some reading skills about narrative writing. Emotion aims: Let them be confident about their spoken English and be brave to shoe their thoughts. Teaching important points 1.

Enable students to master the reading skills such as skimming、scanning. 2.

Enable students to read and understand the main idea. 3.

Enable students to further understand the key words and expressions in this passage. Teaching difficult points

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Let students to master the reading skills such as skimming、scanning. 2.

Get students to understand the sturctures and meanings of some important or difficult sentences. (1)

These are my rules. When a man says he wants to marry me, I will run against him. If he cannot run as fast as me, he will be killed. No one will be pardoned. (2)

Hippemenes changed his mind.“I will marry Atlanta—or die!”he said. (3)

He went to ask the Greek Goddess of Love for help.She promised to help him and give him three golden apples. Teaching methods: Expository method、Discussion. Teaching aids: Media、Blackboard、Textbook. Class Type/Hour: New class; One class hour. Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in T: Hello, everybody! As you know, we can usually ask some people for help/advice. So who will you ask for if you are in trouble? Ss: My friends. T: Why not ask for your parents? Ss: Because they are also in school. T:

Q2: Would you ask a God or Goddess for help? Ss: No. T: Actually, in ancient Greek times people believed Gods/ Goddesses

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could and did help humans. Do you know any stories or persons in ancient Greek?(show the pictures below and intruduce shortly)

Step 2 Pre-reading

As long as it is a “story”, it must be a narration and must be organized in order of time. It may include:

Who, When, Where, What, Why, How. Step 3 Skimming T: I will give you five minutes to read the text and fill in the blanks. The story of Atlanta Topic（主题） Background（背景） Event（事件） Main Characters （主要人物） Other Characters （次要人物）

T: Have you finished? Who can answer these questions? S1: (1) The topic is: The story of Atlanta S2: (2) Atlanta was not allowed to run in the Olympic Games. S3: (3) The man wanted to marry Atlanta. S4: (4) Atlanta、Hippomenes

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S5: (5) The Greek King、the Greek Goddess of love. T: Excellent. OK,class. Have you got the answer? Let’s check the PPT and see if you were right. Step 4 Scanning T: Now read the text quickly to find out the below answers? Q1:Who was Atlanta? What was she good at ? Q2:What rules did she make ? Who did she want to marry? Q3: Who was the man? Q4: How could Hippomenes win Atlanta? T: Are you ready? Shall we check the answers? Ss:Yes. S1:``````S2:``````S3:``````S4:`````` Suggested answers: 1.

She was a Greek princess.

She was good at running. 2.

“When a man says he wants to marry me, I will run against him. If he cannot run as fast as me, he will be killed. No one will be pardoned.”She wanted to marry a man who could run faster than her. 3.

The man was Hippomenes who want to marry Atlanta. 4.

He asked for help from the Greek Goddess of Love. The Greek Goddess of Love gave him three golden apples to attract Atlanta’s attention and make her slow down. T: Now do the True or False exercise(page 14) 1.

She practiced running to compete in the Olympic Games.(

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At first Hippomennes understood why men ran against Atlanta. (

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Atlanta was not sure she could win. (

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

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She made as many men as she could share her pain. (

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

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He did not refuse her wish to choose her husband in a race. (

) Then check the answers with students. 1~7: F F F T T T T Step 5 Consolidate T: Let us listen to the radio of this reading and know how to read the passage correctly.(about 2 minutes) T: Then the key phrases in each paragraph. Para1: make a bargain with sb 达成协议

run against sb 与···赛跑

be killed/pardoned(be + done 表示被动) Para2: change one’s mind 改变主意

Para3: ask sb for help寻求某人的帮助

pomise to do 承诺做某事

Step 6 Post-reading T: From what we have learned today, discuss with your partner: (1)

Who do you think will win the race?(2)

If you were Hippomenes, would you run against

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Atlanta?

As a matter of fact, they fell in love at first sight of each other. T: A small but magical apple (Hippomenes won a beautiful wife; human came into being; the law of Universal Gravitation was born; Jobs makes a big difference to the world) Summary

Make an apple of your own if you dream of changing yourself and the world. After class, review what we have learned today. Homework 1.

Read the text after class. 2.

Suppose you fall in love with somebody at first sight, what would you do to get his/her heart. Write a short writing.(100 words) Blackboard design: Story: Atlanta(the princess)

Hippomenes(the man) Comments:

Reflection 1.

Next time, try me best to speak English totally. 2.

As for the procedures: the PPT of “tips”,don’t skim it. After teaching,

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make a bargain with sb(与某人协商)达成协议

be killed/pardoned—be+done表示被动

fall in love at first sight

一见钟情

ask students to find out the forms of this passage. Combine with the exercise immediately. 3.

There is no need to translate the difficult word if there has its Chinese meaning on PPT. 4.

Next class, it would be better to have a writing about “If you fall in love with somebody, what would you do to?”.

阿克苏地区乌什县第一中学

李优优

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