Period 3 Extensive Reading
The General Idea of This Period：
This period is to introduce the students to Greek literature and to help them understand the problems that women had in Ancient Greece.The Greeks had wonderful stories about the Gods and Goddesses who were part of their religion.They believe that these Gods （or Goddesses） would help if they felt sorry for them or if the humans were good people.The Gods did not always help though.They behaved like people who were unpredictable and capricious.To try to get the support of the Gods people had to pray to them and offer them presents.In this story the Goddess Hera，the Greek Goddess of Love （the wife of the chief God，Zeus）was sorry for Hippomenes and agreed to help him.
Teaching Aims：
1.Enable the students to learn and talk about Atlanta’s story. 2.Learn some useful words and expressions：prince，princess，amaze（amazing，amazed），foolish，promise，golden，etc.
3.Learn some sentence patterns：
（1）I will only be married to a man who can run faster than me. （2）It was so tall that I had to look up to the sky to see it.
（3）There was a man called Hippomenes who was amazed when he heard of Atlanta’s rules. Teaching Important Points：
1.Enable the students to comprehend the story of Atlanta and get the general idea of the story of Atlanta and something about the beginning of the Olympic Games in the ancient time.
2.To know the athlete in the past and the fact that women were not allowed to take part in. Teaching Difficult Point：
To understand the content and finish the true or false exercises efficiently. Teaching Methods：
1.Skimming to get the general idea of the story of Atlanta.
2.Scanning to get detailed information and get to understand the story better.
3.Task-based methods to get the students to comprehend the passage and be able to retell the story in their own words.
Teaching Aids： 1.A tape recorder. 2.A multimedia.
Teaching Procedures： Step 1 Revision
1.Revise the future passive voice.
T：It’s getting cold now.Will you bring or buy some thick clothes to school? Ss：Yes.
T：In fact we may also say that because it is getting cold now，some thick clothes... Ss：Some thick clothes will be brought or bought. T：That is to say，some thick clothes will be brought or bought.Sometimes we can use future passive voice to express a future action.Remember the form?
Ss：Yes.will/be to/being go to be done.
T：Very good.Now let’s check our homework to see how well you grasp the grammar.
2.Check the homework.（Page 49 Ex.1 Choosing the right words and completing the sentences） Step 2 Reading （Page 51）
T：Now do you want to know more about the Olympic Games? Ss：Yes.
T：Turn to Page 51.This reading material includes three different topics about the ancient Olympic Games.Now let’s read them one by one.What is the main idea of the first part?
（After reading）
T：Who can answer this question?
S1：It describes the opening ceremony of the ancient Olympic Games. T：Can you describe it in details?
S2：First the athletes offered presents to Zeus and prayed to win and to wear the victor’s crown.Then they promised to play fairly and not to cheat.
T：That is all for this part.Come to the second part.What is the content of the dialogue?
S3：It tells us the training life of a successful athlete and the rewards that he got for winning the match. T：What were the rewards? S4：He received many presents from his hometown：free meals，no money problems for the rest of his life and songs written about him.
T：Let’s come to the third material.What was the story about?
S5：A woman was discovered in the Olympic Games.She aroused some argument.A law was passed that women were not allowed to take part in the Games.
T：Good.Look at the form on Page 52.You can read the material quickly and finish the form. （Give the students enough time to discuss the answers to fill in the form on Page 52.） Check the answers. Keys：
1.Athletes offer presents to the God，they prayed，see the statue of Zeus. 2.The men and young boys.
3.Parts of Greece，Athens and Sparta.
4.Practise for many hours a day，do a lot of exercise to the sound of music.
5.Many presents：free meals and no money problems as well as songs about him. 6.A woman has been discovered.
7.They let her go，but have decided to pass a law that all trainers must be men. Step 3 Reading （The Story of Atlanta on Page 14） 1.Leading in—Talk about the pictures on Page 14.
T：Please turn to Page 14.Look at the first picture.What can you see in it? Ss：Two people. T：Who is the man? Ss：He is the king.
T：What about the girl? Ss：She is his daughter.
T：Yes，she is named Atlanta and they are talking about their marriage.Now let’s look at the second picture.This time what can we see here?
Ss：We can see a young man and a fairy.
T：Good.The man is named Hippomenes and the fairy is the Goddess of Love.We can see the Goddess of Love is giving something to Hippomenes.What is she giving to him?
Ss：Some apples.
T：Right.In fact she was giving Hippomenes some golden apples.What does golden mean? Ss：It means having the color of gold.
T：Good.But why does the Goddess give Hippomenes some golden apples?What are they used for?
S1：They are used as food.
S2：They are present from the Goddess.
S3：They can be used as a large sum of money. ...
T：OK，let’s find out what they really for. 2.Getting the general idea
Listen to the tape to get the general idea.
T：Please listen to the tape carefully to get the general idea.Pay attention to the intonation.If you feel like，read after the tape.
T：Who have got the main idea?
S4：The story is 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.
3.Skimming
Get the students to read the story and find the answers to the following questions. （1）Who was Atlanta? （2）What was she good at?
（3）Who did she want to marry?
（4）How could he Hippomenes win Atlanta?
T：Now please read the story and try to find the answers to the following four questions.If you come across any unknown words，try to guess their meanings.（After three minutes.） Now have you finished?
Ss：Yes.
T：Now who can give us the answers to the questions?
S5：Miss，let me have a try.I think Atlanta was a Greek princess. T：Yes or no? Ss：Yes.
T：Good.What about the second one?Who can give us an answer?
S6：She was good at running.She was not only beautiful but also could run faster than any man in Greece. T：Well done.What about the third one?
S7：She wanted to marry a man who could run faster than her.
T：Was that possible?Some say yes and some say no.Let’s see the last question.Who can give us an answer? S8：Let me try.He asked for help from the Greek Goddess of Love.The Greek Goddess of Love gave him three golden apples to attract Atlanta’s attention and make her slow down.
4.Consolidation （True or false）
Get the Ss to do the true or false as a competition to check their understanding of the story.If a statement is false，they should tell the reason.
1.Atlanta could run faster than any man.（False.She could run faster than any man in Greece.）
2.At first Hippomenes understood why men ran against Atlanta.（False.At first he couldn’t understand why men ran against Atlanta.He thought those men were foolish to run against Atlanta.）
3.Atlanta was not confident she would win.（False.She was confident.） 4.She was so angry that she could not run in the Olympics.（False.The reason for her not being allowed to run in the Olympic was not that she was angry but that she was a woman.She was angry at the fact that she could not run in the Olympics.）
5.She made as many men as she could share her pain.（False） 6.Her father did not understand her wish to compete.（True）
7.He did not refuse her wish to choose a husband in a race.（True） Step 5 Assignment
T：In this class，we’ve learned more about the Olympic Games and talked about a Greek story in the ancient Olympics—Atlanta’s story.After class，I would like you to read the story fluently and retell the story.
Step 6 The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard
Unit 2 The Olympic Games
Period 3
Language Points 1.marry vt. A marry B marry A to B
A get/be married （to B） n.marriage adj.married
2.amazed=surprised be amazed at sth. be amazed to do sth. be amazed that...
amazing=surprising 3.promise vt. promise sth. promise sb. sth.
promise （sb.）to do sth. promise sb. that... promise n.
make/give a promise keep a promise
carry out a promise break a promise
Step 7 Record after Teaching
高中英语优秀教案Unit2TheOlympicGamesPeriod3ExtensiveReading(新人教版必修2)
