Unit10 The Spirit of Marathon Learning objectives: Ability Objects： Fast reading to get the main idea of the text and finish the fast reading task. Careful reading to find the details information and finish the careful reading task. 2．Knowledge Objects: （1）To know knowledge about marathon race and the spirit. （2）To help the students to grasp the main idea of the text. 3. Emotional goals： Help Ss learn the spirit of marathon. To be strong both in body and in mind. Teaching Approaches: Work in groups Teaching key points and difficult points： Train fast reading and careful reading skills. Help the Ss to pronounce the names of the places. Help Ss to understand the origin of marathon race. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Greeting and lead in T: Hello everyone, last class we’ve learned something about Olympic Games. Today we are going to learn a big event at the Olympic Game, Marathon. Do you know anything about Marathon (Show some pictures.) Ss: Discuss and say something they known. Long, tired, challenging, slow, many people T: Good you know much about it. The distance of marathon race is very long. How long Do you know the precise distance of it Why is it called marathon. Who thought of running a marathon You will find answer in the text -- Unit 10 The Spirit of Marathon today. Before the lesson let’s revise the words and expressions first, read them loudly together, three times a word. Step 2 Listening T: Good, you pronounce the words correctly. I think we all can’t wait to know the story and want to find the answers, now let listen to the tape of the lesson to find the answers, don’t look at your books Ss: Listen to the tape. (They may find one of the answers) Step 3 Fast reading T: It seems hard to understand the text only by listening because it’s really difficult. Ok, let’s open your books and read the text to find the answers and main idea. You have only 5 minutes, please read fast. And there is a matching game for you as well. Matching Game (show on screen) Ss: Fast read the text to find the answer and main idea. T: The text can be divided into three parts, please match each part with its main idea. Check answers by having volunteers share their answers. Ss: Volunteer to share answers. Step 4 Careful reading (para.1 to para.2) T： Good, We have known the main idea of the text. Do you want to know better about the text to find something new OK, let’s begin careful reading to learn the text. First, read the first part from para.1 to para.2 to find the origin of marathon race. Before reading I’d like to teach you something first. Names and history background of ancient countries. Athens 雅典 Greece 希腊 Greek 希腊人 Persian 波斯人 Pheidippides （人名）费迪皮迪斯 Ss: Be interested in the studying. T: Well, since we’ve know some background knowledge of the origin, let’s start our task: to read part 1 carefully and answer these questions on the screen, you can discuss in groups: 1. Where was the war happened in September of 490 BC 2. ... ...
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