2019-2020年人教版高中英语必修2 Unit 2 the Olympic games period 3 教案2.doc

2019-2020年人教版高中英语必修2 Unit 2 the Olympic games period 3 教案2Teaching 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: GreeceT: What do you call the people or the language of this country? S: GreekT: Greece is an ancient country full of stories; do you think so? S: Yes. T: Now, lets look at the picture ing from the ancient country.King Princess Hippomenes GoddessT: 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 lets turn to page 14 and read the story about the four persons.Step 2. Reading 1. SkimmingPurpose: To get a brief understanding of the passage.Read the text quickly and find out the relationship among the four persons.2. ScanningPurpose: 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) T1. Reading and answeringPurpose: To make Ss further understand the text.Read the text in silence, and answer the following questions.(1) What was Atlantas problem?(2) What were Atlantas 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?Suggested Answers:(1) Atlanta could run faster than any men in Greece. But she was not allowed to run in the Olympic Games.(2) She promised to be married to a man who could run faster than her. If he could not run as fast as her, he would be killed.(3) Hipppomenes could not understand why so many young men wanted to risk their lives.(4) Atlantas beauty made him understand his amazement and change his mind.(5) He turned to the Goddess of love for help.4. Talking and writingGroup 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. For your reference (Various possible endings are allowed. Here are three kinds of different results.):(1). Hippomenes was killed because of losing his race.(2). Hippomenes ran faster than Atlanta and married her.(3). Atlanta and Hippomenes fell in love with each other at first sight. In spite of this, he still had to run the race, and unfortunately he lost the race and was killed by the king without being stopped by Atlanta in time. Atlanta was so sad that she killed herself before Hippomenes dead body.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 ones mind, ask for from, pick up, confident about, pete with