1、Unit 2 The Olympic GamesI教学内容分析本单元的中心话题是“奥运会”。Warming Up部分通过讨论让学生了解古代和现代奥运会的异同。Pre-reading部分的三个问题则进一步考查学生对奥运会基本常识的了解。Reading部分作者通过一个虚拟的采访向读者介绍了古代奥运会与现代奥运会的异同。Comprehending部分帮助学生归纳他们已知的和刚学到的关于古代与现代奥运会异同，并且进一步讨论奥运会相关知识。Learning about Language部分都同单元主题紧密相关，词汇和语法结构的呈现也尽可能地安排在相关的语境中。Using Language部分通过一个希腊
2、神话故事来引导学生进行读、听、说、写的综合训练。Learning Tip部分鼓励学生在两人活动和小组活动中积极发言，这样既可以消除害羞的心理，又有利于学生掌握恰当的交际策略。II教学重点和难点1教学重点(1) 本单元的生词和短语；(2) 学会使用将来时的被动语态；(3) 让学生熟悉奥运会世界上最重要的体育盛会；能用英语就奥运会的基本知识进行互相问答，并能简述奥运会的基本知识；(4) 鼓励学生表达自己的兴趣爱好，要多让学生讲自己熟悉的话题。 2教学难点(1) 指导学生按类别归纳整理词汇，让学生学会有效的记忆词汇的方法；(2) 引导学生发现本单元重点语言结构，让学生自己发现并感悟相关的语言规律，培
3、养他们的语感。III教学计划本单元分五课时：第一、二课时：Warming up，Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehension第三课时：Learning about Language第四课时： Reading, Writing (Using Language)第五课时：Listening, Speaking, Writing (Using Language)IV教学步骤：Period 4. Reading, Writing (Using Language)Teaching Goals: 1. To learn more about the ancient Olympic
4、 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 Olympi
5、c 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 coming from the an
6、cient 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 und
7、erstanding 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 Hippom
8、enes 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 answeringPu
9、rpose: 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 Hippo
10、menes 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 un
11、derstand 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 s
12、tudent 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
13、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, compete with