Period 4 ListeningThe General Idea of This Period：This period aims at listening to three stories：the story of Atlanta，Phidippides journey to ask for help and the passing of the Olympic torch.When accomplishing the listening tasks，train the students two skillspredicting the content of the listening texts by looking through the questions before listening and understanding general idea and getting detailed information by catching some key words and sentences.Teaching Aims：Make sure the students get the beginning（cause），development and result of the three stories and write down some key words and sentences.Teaching Important Point：Get the students to understand the three stories.Teaching Difficult Point：Understanding the listening materials.Teaching Methods：1.Listening-and-answering. 2.Cooperative learning.Teaching Aids：1.A tape recorder.2.A projector.Teaching Procedures：Step 1 RevisionRevise the first part of the story of Atlanta.T：Yesterday we learned part of the story of Atlanta.Remember?Ss：Yes.T：Who was Atlanta?Ss：She was a Greek princess.T：Good.What was she good at?S1：She was good at running.She could even run faster than men in Greece.T：What did she want to do in the story?S2：She wanted to marry a man who can run faster than her.T：Why?S3：Because she was angry at the fact that women were not allowed to take part in the ancient Olympic Games.T：Did any man come to compete against her?S4：Yes.And among the men there was one named Hippomenes.T：Was he sure to win Atlanta?Ss：No.T：So what did he do in order to beat her?S5：He went to the Greek Goddess of Love to ask for help.T：Did the Goddess help him?S6：Yes.She gave him three golden apples to attract Atlantas attention.T：Do you think Hippomenes would win the race and marry Atlanta?Ss：Yes/No.T：Some say yes some say no.Lets listen and find out.Step 2 Listening to the first listening material （Page 15）1.Predicting the result of the story and getting the general idea.Get the Ss to read the statements in Ex.2 on Page 15 and predict the possible result and content of the story.T：Please open your book and turn to Page 15.Read the statements quickly and guess which can be the possible general idea of the story.T：Now lets listen to the tape for the first time and try to choose the right answer.（Play the tape for the first time then check the answer.）T：Now did you understand the story?Ss：Yes.T：Who won the race，Atlanta or Hippomenes?Ss：Hippomenes.T：Right.Now lets see the general idea of the story.Which one is the answer?Why?S7：The fourth one.The first one was wrong because it is only half true.Atlanta races because she does not want to marry anybody less good than herself.The second is wrong because it only tells a part of the story.Atlanta does not agree to marry the man until he wins the race against her.The third one is not quite true.The man did need help to win the race against Atlanta but it was not cheating，as Atlanta had the choice of picking up the apples or not during the race.T：Very good job.Now lets come to Ex.1.2.Arranging the order of the storyT：Please read the sentences of quickly and make sure that you understand each of them.Pay attention to the story when youre listening.（Play the tape for the second time and pause at the key sentences.Then get them to work in pairs and discuss the answer.And then play the tape for the third time for them check their answers.At last get some students to tell their answers and check with the whole class.）（Suggested order：4，11，7，5，1，3，9，6，10，8，2）Step 3 Listening to the second material （Page 48）1.Leading-in （talking about the background information on the marathon）T：As we all know that there is an event named marathon in the modern Olympic Games.What about in ancient Olympic Games?Was there such an event?Ss：No，there was not such an event in the ancient Olympic Games.T：Right.The marathon was a modern event that was first introduced in the 1896 Olympic Games.How long a distance does a runner have to cover in the marathon?Do you know?S8：About 40 kilometers.T：Good.In fact the distance of the modern marathon was standardized as 26 miles 385 yards or 42.195 kilometers.Why do we have the event in the modern Olympic Games?Do you have any idea?Ss：I dont know./I have no idea.T：In fact it is a race to commemorate Pheidippides，an ancient day-runner who carried news of the Persian landing at Marathon to Athens （a distance of 26 miles）in order enlist help for the battle.We are going to hear the story of him.Now please turn to Page 48 and read the background information together.（Ss read in chorus.）2.Listen for the first time for the general idea.Get the students to listen for the first time and get the general idea.T：Now please listen to the story and finish the following exercises：（1）Fill in the following blanks.Phidippides was the best _ of _.The leaders of _ told Phidep