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Teaching Plan for Reading and Listening NSEC Book 2 Unit 2 The story of Atlanta By Deng Yunhui

Sanya No.1 Middle School Analysis of teaching material: The content of this lesson is New Senior English for China Student’s Book 2 Unit 2 the fourth period The story of Atlanta. This text is a narrative, clear in structure and concise in language. It extends the main topic “the Olympic Games” of this unit. Set in the ancient Greece where women were not allowed to take part in the Olympic Games, taking the race between Hippomenes and Princess Atlanta as the main line, this text involves many topics such as religious belief, competition spirit, equality between men and women, true love. The story is divided into two parts. The first part is reading comprehension and the second one is listening training. The reading passage mainly depicts a bargain Atlanta made with her father and how Hippomenes asked for help from the Greek Goddess of Love but it doesn’t tell us the ending of the story, so only after listening the rest part of the story can we unravel the suspense. Therefore, I will design a variety of class activities involving reading, listening and speaking to help my students grasp the plot of the story, learn to predict outcomes and understand its main idea. Besides that, I’ll encourage them

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to express their ideas creatively and guide them to have a better understanding of the Olympic spirits. Analysis of target students:

40 students in Senior One from Sanya No.1 Middle School. They are in adolescence and are full of expectations for love stories, so it is easy to mobilize their learning enthusiasm. Before this class they have learned the similarities and differences between the ancient and modern Olympic Games, which contributes to helping them understand the background knowledge of this ancient Greek myth and clearing some obstacles for the next reading. Although they have the basic abilities of reading, listening and speaking, they still need more opportunities to practice what they have learned, to express their ideas and develop their learning ability. According to the learning situation of my students, I will encourage them to take an active part in class activities where they can discuss, communicate and cooperate with each other, so as to acquire knowledge, skills and emotional experience and develop their abilities.

Teaching Aims:

1. Knowledge Aims: 1) Enable the students to learn an ancient Greek myth. 2) Enable the students to master key words and expressions such as princess, prince, glory, promise, make a bargain, hopeless, foolish,

change one’s mind, go away, one after another, pick up.

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2. Ability Aims: 1) Get the students to learn

to predict

the possible content of a text through some pictures. 2) Help the students improve their reading ability and learn to adopt reading skills such as skimming, scanning, guessing the new words, information-gathering in their reading. 3) Help the students improve their listening ability and learn to gain useful information from the listening material. 4) Help the students improve their speaking ability through the role-play activity.

3. Emotional Aims: 1) Inspire the students' love for ancient Greek culture. 2) Get the students to have a further understanding of the Olympic spirits. Teaching important points:

1. Instruct the students to master the content of the story.

2. Guide the students to understand the relationship between the story and the topic “the Olympic Games”.

Teaching difficult point: How to lead the students to understand the theme of the story. Teaching method: Activity-based English Learning Teaching Aids:

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1. The Multi-media 2. The blackboard 3. Two big crowns made of paper and three apples.

Teaching procedures:

Step1

Before class Divide the whole class into four groups and encourage the students to try to answer the questions to get points for their own groups. At the end of this class, the group which gets the most points will be the winner. This kind of group competition can arouse their interest in this lesson. Step2

Lead-in

Show the students the pictures of the Greek Goddess of Love and

three golden apples to introduce them the background knowledge of

this ancient Greek myth. Step3

Pre-Reading

Show the students two pictures and guide them to predict what happened among the four characters in the story. Step4

Reading Activity 1

(Individual work)

Ask the students to skim the passage on Page 14 to confirm their prediction and then fill in the following chart. When＆Where

Who

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What Hippomenes wanted to ________ Atlanta and would __________ her. The purpose of my design: By filling in the above chart the students not only learn about the basic information of the story including when, where, who and what but also develop their skimming ability. Activity 2

(Pair work)

Ask the students to work in pairs, ask and answer the following

questions about Atlanta.

1. Who was Atlanta? 2. What was she good at？

3. What was she angry about? 4. What kind of man did she want to marry? 5. What would happen if the man couldn’t run faster than her? 6. Was Atlanta sure she could win?

The purpose of my design: This activity will help the students get the detailed information about the heroine in the passage. Activity 3

(Individual work)

Ask the students to read the following statements about Hippomenes and then decide whether they are true or false. If it is false, correct it. 1. Hippomenes was not surprised when he heard of Atlanta’s rules.

True (

)

False (

)

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

True (

)

False (

) 3. Hippomenes wished to marry Atlanta, so he asked the Greek King for help.

True (

)

False (

) 4. Hippomenes said to the King that he would run against Atlanta and the King agreed.

True (

)

False (

) The purpose of my design: This activity will help the students to get detailed information about the hero in the passage. Step5

Post-reading

(Discussion) Ask the students to predict the ending of the story. Who do you think will win the race? Hippomenes or Atlanta? Why? The purpose of my design: The discussion is held to help the students learn to analyze and infer information and express themselves creatively. Step6

Listening

Activity 1

(Individual work) Ask the students to listen to the tape to see if their predictions are right and then tell me who the winner is. Activity 2

(Individual work) Ask the students to listen to the tape again and fill in the blanks.

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,

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“These are ________: she _________________ who _________ than her! ________ —

let’s run!”

During the race, Hippomenes threw __________________one after another. Atlanta stopped to ____ them ___.So Hippomenes ___________ and married Atlanta. The purpose of my design:

This activity is designed to help the students to develop their ability to collect information via listening with purpose. After this activity the students can get the whole story. Activity 3

(Individual work) Ask the students to choose the main idea of the passage. A. This story is about a princess who wanted to choose her husband in a race. B. This story is about a man who tried to compete with a princess in a race, but failed. C. This story is about a man who cheated to marry a princess. D. This story is about how a man married a princess by winning a race with the help of a Goddess. Step8

Acting

(group work)

Ask the students to choose one scene from the following chart to make up a short play with their group members and then act it out.

Scene1 Scene2

Events

Characters Make a bargain Atlanta

the Greek King Ask for help Hippomenes

the Goddess of love 7

Scene3 Race Atlanta

Hippomenes

The purpose of my design: Role-play is for outputting. After learning about the whole story, the students will have a lot to express. So this activity is designed for them to apply knowledge into practice and motivate their imagination. In addition, this activity can improve the students’ ability to comprehensively use their language knowledge in specific contexts and develop their sense of cooperation. Homework

1. Read the passage again and learn the key words and useful expressions by heart. 2. Do exercise 3 on page 49.

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