Chapter 3 The night of the horse

一. 教学内容：
Chapter 3 The night of the horse reading 1
 
二. 教学目标:
（一）课文阅读理解
（二）课文重点单词和短语
 
【具体教学过程】
（一）课文阅读理解
i、回答课前阅读问题：p34 a  what do you know about the story – the night of the horse?
  1. pyramids       b. egypt
  2. stonehenge     c. england
  3. kinkaku-ji      a. japan
ii、阅读课文，用时6分钟。
iii、完成课前阅读p34 b find the facts 根据故事发生的先后排列正确的顺序。
c---- the soldier of the city of troy came down the stairs.
d---- the captain stood on the high wall of the city of troy.
b---- the trojans dragged the wooden horse into the city with ropes.
a---- all the citizens of troy celebrated.
e---- the greek soldiers quietly climbed out of the wooden horse.
f---- the greek soldiers opened the main gates and the greek army entered the city.
 
（二）课文重点单词和短语
i、重点单词
1. run   v.                             2. tale  n.                                  3. stair n.
4. beyond  prep.                    5. capture  v.                             6. help  n.
7. order  n.                             8. drag  v.                                 9. citizen   n.
10. stupid   adj.                     11. securely  adv.                       12. include  v.
13. secret  n.                         14. army  n.                              15. darkness   n.
16. seize   v.                          17. unable  adj.                          18. far  adj.
19. frightened  adj.                 20. beat  v.
 
巩固练习：
（一）在课文中找出下列单词并从所给选项中选出与所给词意思一致的选项。
1. capture (our city)
    a. make (our city) their prisoner   b. make (our city) stronger   c. destroy (our city)
2. securely
    a. auickly     b. safely     c. quietly
3. including
    a. and also    b. before     c. but not
4. army
    a. a strange group of soldiers  b. a small group of soldiers   c. a large group of soldiers
5. seized
  a. took hold of somebody roughly    b. took hold of somebody carefully
     c. took hold of somebody gently
6. disappeared
a. could no longer be touched   b. could no longer be heard   c. could no longer be seen
7. main
     a. open   b. strongest   c. most important
8. succeeded in
     a. was unable to   b. was successful in   c. tried to
 
（二）词义搭配
a                       b
1. the plain      a. on the far side of
2. beyond        b. open area in a city
3. gates          c. enjoyed themselves by singing, dancing, eating,etc.
4. wooden       d. the big, flat piece of land
5. square        e.. pulled roughly
6. celebrated     f. made of wood
7. dragged       g. big doors
 
ii、重点短语
1. run a short story competition
2. send in
3. come down the stairs
4. go up the stairs
5. two/three at a time
6. no longer
7. seconds later
8. stand on the high wall
9. the city of troy
10. look down at
11. the empty plain land
12. the greeks
13. capture our city
14. sail away
15. take sth. with sb.
16. be made of
17. pull sth. into…
18. have to
19. obey orders
20. drag sth. into…
21. in the main square of the city
22. make jokes about…
23. make sure
24. go to sleep
25. by midnight
26. except for
27. wait for
28. another hour
29. in the side of the horse
30. climb out
31. in the darkness
32. seize sb.
33. by fighting/a trick
34. succeed in doing sth.
35. enjoy oneself
 
巩固练习:
用所给词或短语的正确形式完成下列句子, 使其意思完整.
 ( another hour     be made of     enter      have to      make sure 
no longer     include     succeed in     stand on    take everything with)
1. but the captain of the guards was _________________ listening.
2. now they’ve sailed away and they’ve ________________ them.
3. the captain _____________ the high wall of the city of troy.
4. you ________________ think, you have to obey orders.
5. then the trojans _______________ all the gates of the city were securely locked.
6. they all went to sleep, ______________ the gate guards.
7. the six greek soldiers waited for ________________.
8. the greek army returned and ____________ the city.
9. they ________________________ capturing the city by a trick.
10. outside the main gates of the city stood a huge horse _______wood.
keys:
1. no longer            2. taken everything with      3. stood on         
4. don’t have to       5. made sure                        6. including  
7. another hour        8. entered           9. succeeded in   10. made of