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New Senior English for China Student’s Book 2 Unit 2 The Olympic Games

Extensive reading and listening: The Story of Atlanta

Teaching aims: Knowledge aims:

Get students to learn about the ancient Greek literature.

Ability aims:

1. Develop students’

reading skills extensive reading.

2. Develop students abilities to get special information and take notes while listening

Emotional aims:

Stimulate students’

love of the ancient Greek literature and culture.

Important points:

Develop students’

reading skills and listening ability.

Difficult points:

1. Enable students to learn to use reading strategies.

2. Let students catch and understand different listening materials.

Teaching methods:

1.

Task-based teaching and learning.

2.

Cooperative learning.

3. Discussing.

Teaching Procedure:

Step 1. Leading in

1.

Appreciate the music“Butterflies lovers”.

2. Make a description of“Butterflies lovers”.

3. Get students interested in fairy tales--- Greek fairy tales.

[设计意图] 通过音乐欣赏引出文章话题，训练了学生的语言表达能力，同时为阅读作铺垫，激发学生的探究兴趣。

Step 2. Reading

一Fast-reading ( reading strategy:skimming) Go through the whole reading by answering the following questions:

1.Who is Atlanta? 2.What’s she good at? 3. What are Atlanta’s rules?

“When a man says he wants to ________ me, I will run _________ him. If he cannot run ____ fast ____ me, he will be __________. No one will be __________.”

4.What did Hippomenes think of the men who competed against Atlanta at first?- 5.What did the Greek Goddess of Love advise Hippomenes to do?

“Throw an ______ in front of Atlanta when she is running ______. When she stops to ______ it up, you will be able to run past her and win.”

[设计意图] 培养整体意识，建立信息框架，让学生弄清文章大意。

二Second-reading ( reading strategy: scanning)

1Do the exercise of True or False(课本第14页)

2Try 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.

(

) When the race began Atlanta ran past him.

(

) He asked the Goddess of love for help.

(

) 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 other man in Greece.

[设计意图]注重文章细节理解，培养阅读技巧和阅读方法。

三.

Discussing & predicting

1、a. What will happen?

b. Who do you think will win the race?

c. What are the three golden apples for?

[设计意图]要求学生结合故事发展做出推测，同时为接下来听力训练作准备

2、Teacher:Now I have two questions:For the first one I need the boys to answer, For the second one I need the girls to answer. You must show yourselves in the front.

1）If you were Hippomenes ,would you run against Atlanta? WHY? BOYS ANSWER

2.）If you were Atlanta, would you agree to marry Hippomenes? WHY?

GIRLAS ANSWER

[设计意图]要求学生结合故事和自己的真情实感，发表自己对Atlanta和Hippomenes的看法。

Step 3. Listening

1.

Try to work out the order before listen.

2. Listen for the first time to check. ( listen as a whole.)

[设计意图] 培养整体意识，建立信息框架。

3. Listen more to fill in the blanks.

( listen for details, take note as fast as possible.)

[设计意图] 训练学生精听的能力，培养对文章重点词汇和短语的理解运用能力。增强语感，识别语流，强化听力。

Step 4. Homework

1.Atlanta and Hippomenes finally became lions. Find out what happened to them？

[设计意图] 课后延伸，关注故事的后续发展继续探究。

2.Sth. about Atlanta: 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 _______.

Sth. about Hippomenes:

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.

[设计意图] 学生课下读课文，记忆新的单词和短语