1. Journey to the West
Chinese traditional legend

2. An old man tried to move the mountains.
Unit 6
An old man tried to move the mountains.
Section A (1a---2c) 2

4. b a d c 1a ___ Journey to the West ___ Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
20 seconds
Match the story titles with the pictures [a--d]. b
___ Journey to the West
___ Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
___ Yu Gong Moves a Mountain
___ Nu Wa Repairs the Sky a d c

5. ten shot Guessing game Hou Yi shoots the suns
Once upon a time,there were _____ suns in the sky.
Hou Yi _____ nine of them.
shot

6. Waiting for a Hare to Turn up
Guessing game
Waiting for a Hare to Turn up

7. Guessing game
Journey to the West

8. To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow

9. Nu Wa Repairs the Sky

10. Yu Gong Moves a Mountain.

11. Yu Gong Moves a Mountain.1b
Listen and check the facts you hear.
Which story are Anna and Wang Ming
talking about? (1b)
__ The two mountains were very high
and big.
__ A very old man tried to move the
mountains.
__ A man told Yu Gong that he could
never do it.
Yu Gong Moves a Mountain.

12. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
Once
How does the story begin? Who was the story about?
________ upon a time, there was a very old man______ Yu Gong.
What happened?
There are two __________ near his house. They were ___ big and high that it ______ a long time to walk to the other side The old man _____ his family that they should all help him to _______ the mountains Yu Gong said he could ______all the earth and stone ______ the sea because it’s big ______ to ______ everything So they all started ________ the next day
called
mountains so
took
told
move
put
into
enough
hold
digging

13. Retell the story
So far, We have learned how to begin a story and the beginning of Yu Gong moves mountains
Once upon a time, there was..., called....
near his house so high and big that...
told his family that… could put …into
The next day, they....
Do you know the rest of the stories?

14. Listen and number the pictures [1-4] in order to tell the story.3 2 4 1

15. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
began
Yu Gong and his family _______ to move some of the earth and stone to the sea.

16. One day saw when working on never weak As soon as finished continue
________, a man ______ Yu Gong and his children _______ they were ____________moving the mountains. He told Yu Gong that he could ________ do it because he was old and _______.
__________ the man________ talking, Yu Gong said that his family could _________ to move the mountains______ he died.
saw
when
working on
never
weak
As soon as
finished
continue
after

17. grow
His family would live and ________, but the mountains could not get _________. So Yu Gong and his family __________ digging _____________ and year after year.
bigger
kept on
day after day

18. moved
________, a _____ was so ________ by Yu Gong that he ______ two gods to ______ the mountains ________.
This story ____________ us that you can never know what’s possible ________you try to make it happen.
Finally
god
sent
take
away
reminds / tells
unless

19. Retell the story
began
Yu Gong and his family _______ to move some of the earth and stone to the sea.

20. One day saw One day…… As soon as…… when working on never weak
________, a man ______ Yu Gong and his children _______ they were ____________moving the mountains. He told Yu Gong that he could ________ do it because he was old and _______.
__________ the man________ talking, Yu Gong said that his family could _________ to move the mountains______ he died.
saw
One day……
As soon as……
when
working on
never
weak
As soon as
finished
continue
after

21. grow
His family would live and ________, but the mountains could not get _________. So Yu Gong and his family __________ digging _____________ and year after year.
His family……, but the mountains ……
So ……
bigger
kept on
day after day

22. moved
________, a _____ was so ________ by Yu Gong that he ______ two gods to ______ the mountains ________.
This story ____________ us that you can never know what’s possible ________you try to make it happen.
Finally
god
Finally, ……
This story reminds ……
sent
take
away
reminds / tells
unless

23. Group work Tell the story in a group:
1. Once upon a time, there was a very old man… There were…
2. Yu Gong wanted to move the mountains because…
3. A man told Yu Gong that … because…
4. As soon as the man finished talking, Yu Gong told his family they could continue to move …
5. So …Finally…
6. This story reminds us that you can never know what’s possible unless you try to make it happen.
Act out the story in a group:
The main characters are:
1. Narrator (旁白)
2. Yu Gong
3. A man
4. Yu Gong’s children
5. A god
Group work 23

24. Show Time

25. The story tries to show us ________. A. the story is interesting.
B. Yu Gong is silly.
C. anything is possible if you work hard.
The story reminds us that you can never know what’s possible unless you try to make it happen. 25

26. Keep trying and never give up.

27. Homework Choose one of the three to tell the story.
Journey to the West
Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
Nu Wa Repairs the Sky

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