Period 5 Cultural Corners, Workbook, Module File

Teaching Goals:

1. Enable Ss to get some information about marathon.

2. To deal with the exercise in workbook.

3. Enable Ss to make a conclusion of this module.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Purpose: To activate Ss' and arouse them to talk about marathon.

Ask the students to discuss the following question in group of four or five:

What do you think is the most exciting and hardest in the Olympics? (Students' own answers)

Step 2 Cultural Corner

Purpose: With reading the passage, enable Ss to get some information about marathon.

1. Ask Ss to read through the passage and answer the following questions.

Q1. What are the origins of the marathon?

Q2. Why is the marathon of the last Olympic event?

Suggested answers:

A1. Legend says a Greek soldier ran from Marathon to Athens to tell of the Greek victory.

A2. Because it is supposed to be the hardest event.

2. Ask Ss to find the difficult sentences in Cultural Corner and review the grammar in this module.

Step 3 Workbook

Purpose: To deal with the exercise in workbook.

First, check Ss whether they have finished the homework. And then give some instructions of the confusing exercises.

Step 4 Module File

Purpose: Enable the Ss to make a conclusion of this module and to deepen what we have learned in the module.

Ask the Ss to look at Module File of Module 5 and try to recall what we have learnt in the module. Then tick the things they are sure that they know and put a question mark next to the points they are not sure of and a cross to what they don't know.

Help the students to share their ideas and deal with the difficult or confusing points.

Step 5 Homework

1. Find more exercises about the adverbial clauses and prepositional phrases.

2. Get a general impression of Module 6.