一. Lead-in Video (根据课文中和单元总体学习目标概况）

1. 各位同学，大家好，本学期即将进入新的阶段，本节课我们将进入到新的Unit 来学习，根据 Unit 6 的 第一个视频介绍，看完视频并了解本单元的学习内容。做好相关学习内容的笔记和单元学习规划。

第一次课学习任务：单元主题导入看完录课视频并完成相关任务点；单元Page 113 学习和Unit 6Text A The Last Runner  课文预读和重点词汇学习; 预读整篇课文。

Warm-up activities(课本第113页）

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三、词汇学习和课文背景信息导入

3.1 在线观看 Warm-up 的单元背景内容介绍导读

Marathon

The name “marathon” comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon, which took place in 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming “we have wοn”, before collapsing and dying.  Marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896. More than 500 marathons are held throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants.

马拉松赛是一项长跑比赛项目，其距离为42.195公里（也有说法为42.193公里，但比赛都是用42.195公里）。这个比赛项目的起源要从公元前490年9月12日发生的一场战役讲起。

这场战役是波斯人和雅典人在离雅典不远的马拉松海边发生的，史称希波战争，雅典人最终获得了反侵略的胜利。为了让故乡人民尽快知道胜利的喜讯，统帅米勒狄派一个叫菲迪皮茨的士兵回去报信。

菲迪皮茨是个有名的“飞毛腿”，为了让故乡人早知道好消息，他一个劲地快跑，当他跑到雅典时，已上气不接下气，激动地喊道“欢......乐吧，雅典人，我们......胜利了”说完，就倒在地上死了。

为了纪念这一事件，在1896年举行的现代第一届奥林匹克运动会上，设立了马拉松赛跑这个项目，把当年菲迪皮茨送信跑的里程——42.193公里作为赛跑的距离。马拉松原为希腊的一个地名。在雅典东北30公里。其名源出腓尼基语marathus，意即“多茴香的”，因古代此地生长众多茴香树而得名。体育运动中的马拉松赛跑就得名于此 [3]  。

3.2 根据以下音频材料，预读Unit 5 Text A The Last runner 

1     The annual marathon in my town usually occurs during a heat wave. My job was to follow behind the runners in an ambulance in case any of them needed medical attention. The driver and I were in an air-conditioned ambulance behind approximately one hundred athletes waiting to hear the sharp crack of the starting gun.

2     “We’re supposed to stay behind the last runner, so take it slowly,” I said to the driver, Doug, as we began to creep forward.

3     “Let’s just hope the last runner is fast!” He laughed.

4     As they began to pace themselves, the front runners started to disappear. It was then that my eyes were drawn to the woman in blue silk running shorts and a baggy white T-shirt.

5     “Doug, look!”

6     We knew we were already watching out “last runner”. Her feet were turned in, yet her left knee was turned out. Her legs were so crippled and bent that it seemed impossible for her to be able to walk, let alone run a marathon.

7     Doug and I watched in silence as she slowly moved forward. We didn’t say a thing. We would move forward a little bit, then stop and wait for her to gain some distance. Then we’d slowly move forward a little bit more.

8      As I watched her struggle to put one foot in front of the other, I found myself breathing for her and urging her forward. I wanted her to stop, and at the same time, I prayed that she wouldn’t.

9     Finally, she was the only runner left in sight. Tears streamed down my face as is at on the edge of my seat and watched with awe, amazement and even reverence as she pushed forward with sheer determination through the last miles.

10   When the finish line came into sight, trash lay everywhere and the cheering crowds had long gone home. Yet, standing straight and ever so proud waited a lone man. He was holding one end of a ribbon of crepe paper tied to a post. She slowly crossed through, leaving both ends of the paper fluttering behind her.

11   I don’t know this woman’s name, but that day she became a part of my life—a part I often depend on. For her, it wasn’t about beating the other runners or winning a trophy, it was about finishing what she had set out to do, no matter what. When I think things are too difficult or too time-consuming, or I get those “I-just-can’t-do-it”, I think of the last runner. Then I realize how easy the task before me really is.

12   Life is a real marathon, long and tough, which we should never give up struggling until we hit the finishing line. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

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六、作业

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