人教新课标高中英语必修二 Unit2 The Olympic Games Listening (共21张PPT).ppt

Finish the exercises on the workbook. Homework Listening Revision Check the homework. Listening The Story of Atlanta (P15) Task 2: Read the statements quickly and decide whether they are true or false. (Ex 1) Task 1: Lead-in (Revision). F F F T T T T The correct order: 4 -11-7 - 5 - 1- 3 -9 – 6 -10- 8 -2 Work in pairs and discuss the answers. Listen for the first time and finish Ex. 3 Ex. 4. This is a story of how a man marries a princess by winning a race with a Goddess’ help. Hippomenes was waiting when Atlanta came out. She thought, “I __________ this man ______!” So she said to her father, “Tell him __________. The race _____________ today.” But Hippomenes said, “These are ________: She _________________ who _________ than her! ________-- let’s run!” don’t want will not be run to go away to die her rules will marry the man runs faster Come on Listening (P48) Smoke signals on the Great Wall to warn of invasion. A message in a bottle in the ocean. A man sending a homing pigeon to its home with a message tied to its leg. Task 1: Leading in Do you know there is an event called “Marathon”? Do you think there was such an event in ancient Olympics? The Marathon was a modern event that was first introduced in the 1896 Olympic Games. The distance is 26 miles 385 yards or 42,195 kilometres. It’s a race in honor of Phidippides, an ancient runner. In the 5th century B.C, the Persians attacked Greece at Marathon near Athens. Phidippides The Greeks were very worried and didn’t know what to do. They sent Phidippides to Sparta to ask for help for the battle… Task 2: Listen to get the main idea. Phidippides sent his message miles away all by himself on foot. What was Phidippides’ job as well as running? Phidippides’ job was a soldier as well as a great runner. He fought in the Battle of Marathon against the Persians. He also sent messages miles away by running. Task 3: Answer the questi