Marco_Polo教学设计.docVIP

Marco Polo 2010.4.13 北师大版必修模块3第八单元第三课（第一课时） Teaching Objectives: 1. Make the students master the key words, phrases and sentence pattern. 2. To improve the students’ reading ability through reading activities. 3. After learning the passage, the students are expected to know about Marco Polo’s experiences in China and the great Chinese civilization at that time. 4. Enable the students to be encouraged by the traveler’s spirit of adventure. Teaching Important/Difficult Points: 1. Enable the students to improve their reading comprehension. 2. How to help the students understand the passage better? Teaching Methods: 1. Task-based method to make students interested in what they will learn. 2. Fast reading to get the general idea of the passage. 3. Careful reading to get some detailed information. Teaching Aids: A blackboard, a projector, a computer and recorder Teaching procedures Step1. Lead-in T shows a short play about Marco Polo. Let Ss observe and describe what they can see in the film. Step2. Pre-reading 1. Introduce something about Marco Polo and learn some background about this text. T: today we are going to read a story about Marco Polo. Have you heard about Marco Polo? Which of the following do you think is true about Marco Polo? A: He was a French merchant who traveled to Venice. B: He was an Italian merchant who traveled to China. Ss: B T: Yes. Many people know about his story…… 2. List some numbers selected from the passage .Write these numbers on the blackboard and ask students to guess what they may refer to. (in 1254; 17 years old; 17 years; in 1291; not long after his return; 70 years old) Step3. General Reading 1. Ss skim the text. Find out the information about Marco Polo and fill out the form on the Bb: ? Name: Marco Polo ? Born (when/where): ? Came to China (when): ? Purpose: ? Languages (how many): ? Returned to Italy (when): ? Age of his death: ? The name of his book: 2. Listen to the article to get the main ideas of the text. After