【正文】 doctor? Has the doctor been sent for? I have never heard of such a thing before. Such a thing has never been heard of before. We must take good care of the children here. The children must be taken good care of here. His classmates laughed at him for the foolish mistake. He was laughed at for the foolish mistake by his classmates. Period 3 Using language Teaching Aims: To read about the ancient Olympic Games To listen and talk about hobbies To write about hobbies Procedures 1. Warming up Warming up by introducing Hi! Class. You know Greece is the worldknown country with an ancient civilization. It has a long history with so much marvelous culture. The Greeks had wonderful stories about the Gods and Goddnesses who were part of their religion. They believed that these god or goddesses would help humans if they felt sorry for them or if the humans were good people. However, the Gods did not always help. 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 present. In this story the Goddess Hera, the wife of the chief God, Zeus was sorry for Hippomenes and agreed to help him. Warming up by sharing Now, boys and girls. Is there anybody who can tell us some Greek mythology. You know they are so famous in human history. Or can you speak out some names of Greek Gods and Goddesses. Prometeus 普羅米修斯 —— a son of the former chief God Sphinx斯芬克斯 —— a being with a human face but a lion body Pandora 潘多拉 —— a beautiful girl with every ill and evil thought and deed Zeus 宙斯 —— the chief God who governed the world Hera 天后 —— the wife of Zeus who governed the love Ⅱ . Guided reading 1. Reading and judging Read the text THE STORY OF ATLANTA, and plete the True or False guestions after the text on page14. 2. Reading and Telling True of False Read the text and finish exercise 1 on page14. 1. She practiced running to pete in the Olympic Games. ( F ) 2. At first Hippomenes understood why men ran against Atlanta. ( F ) 3. Atlanta was not sure she could win. ( F ) 4. She was so angry about the fact that she could not run in the Olympics. ( T ) 5. She made as many men as she could share her pain. ( T ) 6. Her father did not understand her wish to pete in the Olympics. ( T ) did not refuse her wish to choose her husband in a race. ( T ) 3. Reading and underlining Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from THE STORY OF ATLANA be allowed to, run against… , will be pardoned, hear of…,b e amazed, as fast as… , change one’s mind, ask… for help from…, promise to, will be relaxed, pick up, be confident about…,s hare one’s pain, run past… ,pete with… , cheap to marry 4. Listening For listening turn to page 15 and be ready to do exercises 1. First read the statements carefully and imagine what is the listening about. When doing it , you must make clear the order of them. 5. Acting Next we are going to put the text A STORY OF ATLANTA on stage. You know there are four charactors in the story. Who would like to be them? Who will be Alanta’s father, the old king? Who will be the Goddess of Love? Ok. Li Li, you are the Greek princess. Zhang Qiang, you are the brave young man Hippomenes. Lucy, you are the Goddess of Love. Zhou Gang, you are the princess’s father. The rest of class, please prepare it in groups of four. Then act your play before class. A text play of THE STORY OF ATIANTA Time: one morning in spring Place: at the palace People: the old king(K), the princess (A), the young man (H), the Goddess of love (L).