北师大必修三Unite8Lesson3Macro Polo教案

Unit 8 Lesson3 Marco Polo

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I. Teaching Aims:

a.Knowledge Aims:

1)To increase Students’ store of vocabulary

2)To know more about the story of Marco Polo.

b. Ability Aims:

1) To develop Students’ reading skills: finding out topics; finding out detailed information etc.

2) To retell the story of Marco Polo.

c. Moral Aim:

1) Train the students to cooperate with each other

2) To improve students’ understanding of spirits of Marco Polo and try to learn from him.

d. Culture Awareness:

To know the story of western traveller and his contributions.

II. Key and Difficult Points:

a.Teaching Important Points:

1)To figure out the main idea of each paragraph.

2)Practise the students’ oral English..

b.Teaching Difficult Points:

1)How to retell the story of Marco Polo.

2)How to use the words and phrases to make sentences. .

III. Teaching Methods: Task—based Method

IV. Teaching Aids: Multi-media set

V. Teaching Time: One Period (45’)

VI. Teaching Procedures:

Step1 Warm up

Around 700 years ago, an Italian young man traveled across Europe and Asia with his father and finally arrived in Beijing, China. The Chinese emperor welcomed them

Have you ever heard of this story?

Who was the young man?

Step2 Pre-reading

Let’s guess who he is according to the tips.

a. He was an Itatian traveller who came to China during the Yuan Dynasty. The Emperor then is Kublai Khan

b. He was amazed by how beautiful and powerful China was and his stories were written into a book

c. He was very clever and skilful in language.

Step3 Reading

Task1. Fast reading

Step1. Read the whole article quickly. Find out the information about Marco Polo and fill out the following form:

?Name: Marco Polo

?Born (when/where):

?Purpose:

?Came to China (when):

?Languages (how many):

?Returned to Italy (when):

?Age of his death:

Task2. Careful reading

Step1. In what order is the story put together? (the Clue).Divide this text into three parts.

Part1:Before got to China

Part2:During his stay in China.

Part3:After he left China.

Step2. Please read the passage carefully for detailed information:

1 Why did Marco and his father travel to China?

2Who was the Chinese emperor when Marco travelled to China?

3. Why was the emperor impressed by Marco Polo? Because Marco _______.

A. was quite clever

B. was very powerful

C. could speak four languages

D. both A and C

4. Why was Marco surprised to see people using paper money?

Because in Europe people paid for goods with _____ and ______ .

5. What were the black stones Marco saw people burning for fuel? The black stones were _____.

A. wood

B. gas

C. coal

D. diamonds

6.Why was Marco put into prison when he went back to Italy?

Because a _____ war _______and during the war he was _______ by the ______.

7 What was the name of his book?

8. Did all people believe Marco’s stories about China at that time? How did Marco Polo answer?

Step4Post-task

Step1 Summary

Retell the story of Marco Polo based on the outline given below

At the age of___, Marco polo and his father travelled across Asia and Europe to do _____ with the Chinese and eventually they arrved in Beijing. The ____ dynasty Emperor, Kublai khan _________ them and he was impressed by Marco’s _________ and the _______ to speak four languages, so he made Marco serve in his ______.In ____, Marco was amazed by the ______ and power of China. He was impressed by Beijing and the Summer______. Besides, he was surprised to see people using paper money which was not ________ in Europe at that time. Marco was also confused by the black stone people used to burn for _____.In 1291, Marco, who was very _______ at that time, returned to Italy. Later, he

severed as the _______ of a warship in a local war but was caught. In the ______, he met an author who wrote his stories in a book, which became one of the _________ books in Europe. Many people didn’t ______ the stories, but Marco always _______ by his stories.

Step2. Group-discussion.

1)As a great traveller, what qualities do you think Marco Polo have？

2) What were the contributions he made for human beings?

Step3 Homework

Write a short passage about Marco Polo or another great traveller whom you admire, introducing his/her travels and evaluating him/her.