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Using language The Story of Atlanta

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 King

Princess

Hippomenes

Goddess 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

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

Read the text quickly and find out the relationship among the four persons. 2. 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) Atlanta could run faster than any man.

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

(3) Atlanta was not confident she would win.

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

(5) Her father did not refuse her wish to choose a husband in a race.

Suggested Answers: (1) F

(2) F

(3) F

(4) T

(5) T 1.

Reading and answering Purpose: To make Ss further understand the text. Read the text in silence, and answer the following questions. (1) What was Atlanta’s problem?

(2) What were Atlanta’s rules?

(3) Why did Hippomenes think that the men who ran the race were so foolish? (4) What made Hippomenes change his mind? (5) Whom did Hippomenes turn to for help? 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.

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…