Using LanguageⅠ教案评析

Period 4. Reading, Writing (Using Language)

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. Show some pictures and talk something about the pictures. 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 1. listening and Skimming

Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the passage. Read the text quickly and find out the relationship among the four persons and the main idea of the passage. the main idea of the passage：

It’s about Atlanta who races to marry the man who can run faster than her. In order to win the race, Hippomenes asked for help from the Goddess of Love.

Step 2. Reading

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Reading and answering Purpose: To make Ss further understand the text. Read the text in silence, and answer the following questions. (1) When and where did the story happen? (2) Who was Atlanta?

(3) What was she good at? (4) Who did she want to marry? (5) What did Hippomenes do in order to win Atlanta? 2. Careful reading 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. She practised running to compete in the Olympic Games. (

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

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) 3. Atlanta was not confident she would 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 Olympiscs. (

) 7. He didn’t refuse her wish to choose a husband in a race. (

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Retelling Retelling1：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 _______.

Retelling2：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 ableto run ________ her and win. Hippomenes took the apples, went to the King and told him that he wanted to marry Atlanta.

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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…