Using LanguageⅠ第二课时教学设计

Using language (B2—U2) The story of Atlanta Step 1 Lead in

Are you interested in fairy stories?

Step 2 Pre-reading:. Talk about the two pictures. (1)Who is the man? What about the girl?

(2) What can you see in the picture?

(3) What is the girl giving to the man?

(4) What are golden apples used for? Step 3 Reading

Task 1: Skimming(Para 1) (1) Who was Atlanta?

(2) What was she good at? (3) Who did she want to marry?

Task 2: Scanning (Para 2--3) Ex.1 1. She practiced 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.

Ex.3 __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.

KEY: 4-11-7-5-1-3-9-6-10-8-2 Step 4 Listening

Ex.4

(Main idea)

This is a story of how a man ________a princess by _______ a race with a ________’ help. Ex.5: Listen to the tape and finish Ex 5. (P 15)

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!”

Step 5 Summary

Atlanta was a Greek _______who could run faster than ___men in Greece but she was not ______to run in the Olympic Games.She was __angry ___she decided she would run

_______any man who wanted to ________her.

Many kings and princes sadly went home when they

________her rules. Then a man _____Hippomenes saw her and wanted to marry her.So he asked for _____from the Greek Goddess of Love.She _________to help him and gave him

three ________________.

Hippomenes went to the King with the apples and the race began.

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