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The legend of the Chinese Zodiac

The importance of teaching: Enable Ss to know about Chinese culture:

Chinese Zodiac

The aims of teaching: Enable Ss to retell and role play the legend of the Chinese

Zodiac.

Preview: Translate the following words and write the phonetic symbols. (音标) 1.constellation _____________ n. 2. secure _________v. 3. current__________ n.

4. encounter _____________ v.

5.slither _________v.

6.startled__________adj.

7. trio __________ n.

8.harmounious ____________ adj.

9.frolick___________v. 10.element____________n

Teaching processes:

Task One: Ture or False: Look at pictures, are these animals in the Chinese Zodiac?

Task Two:

1.What’s your sign? In western astrology(n.占星术), it’s a constellation determined by when your birthday falls in the calendar

2.But according to the Chinese Zodiac, or Sheng Xiao. It’s your “ShuXiang”, which means animal assigned to your birth year.

3.Yu Di, ruling the heaven, wanted to devise a way to, so he organized a race. The first

1)__________ to make it cross the river would earn a spot on the Zodiac calendar in the order the arrived.

4.The rat rose with the sun to get early start. But on the way to the river he met

2)_________________________. Rat was so small and he couldn’t swim very well, so

3)_____________________, but the tiger and the horse refused.

5.Just they were about to reach the ordered side, the rat 4)_______________the ox’s head and secured the first place.

6.The ox came in second, with the powerful tiger right behind him.

7.The rabbit, 5)_____________battle the current, nimbly hopped across stones and logs.

8.Dragon could have flown directly across, but 6)_______________creatures she encounter ed on the way.

9.The horse, galloping across the river, just she got across the snake slither ed by, the startle d horse reared backed, letting the snake 7)______________________the sixth place.

10.The sheep, the monkey and the rooster all at top of a raft, worked

together8)_______________the weeds, when they made it across, the trio agreed to give the eighth place to the sheep who had been the most comforting and harmonious of them followed by the monkey and the rooster.

11.Next came the dog, scrambling on to the shore, he was a great swimmer but frolick ed in the water for so long that he only9)_______________in the eleventh.

12.The final spot was claimed by the pig, who’d gotten hungry,

and10)_______________________ before finally wadding across the finish line.

13.Another system, the heavenly stems or Shi Tiangan including gold, wood, water, fire earth.

14.Each element was assigned Yin or Yang. When the twelve animals of the Earthly branches are matched with11)________________ plus the Yin and Yang of the heavenly stems. It creates sixty years of different combinations. For example, Someone who was born in 2007 would

be12)_____________.

15.In fact, you can also have an inner animal, based on13)__________________: a true animal, based on your birth date; and a secret animal, 14)__________________.

16.In Vietnamese Zodiac, there is15) ____________not a rabbit, and if you are in Thailand,Naga 16)_____________the dragon.

Task Three: Retell the legend of the Chines Zodiac

Task Four: Can you put these 12 animals in different orders? Discuss with your group members and speak out your opinions.

____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Task Five: Answer questions

1.What’s your sign in Chinese Zodiac? Do you like your sign? Why?

Homework:Rewrite the story or make up a new story of the Chinese Zodiac. Don’t forget to add pictures.