Unit 8 Adventure Lesson 3 Marco Polo教案

unit 8 adventure lesson 3 marco polo教案
teaching aims:
1. to review relative clauses
2. to compare and distinguish defining and non-defining relative clauses
teaching difficulties:
1. to compare and distinguish defining and non-defining relative clauses
teaching aids:computer
teaching procedures:
ⅰ. warming up
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.
s: b
t: yes. many people know about his story. he came from italy. venice was his hometown.(show the pictures of venice) marco polo wrote a very famous book. do you know its name?
s:
t: when did marco came to china? (slide : an old map of the yuan dynasty)
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t: how did marco travel to china?( slide : an old map of traveling map)
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t: in 1271, his father brought marco on a trip to china. marco was surprised at chinese customs and skills such as using coal for heating, paper money, noodle-making and many other things.) now let read the text you will get more information.
ⅱreading
 task1 read the text. are these statements true (t) or false (f)?
1 kublai khan trusted marco polo’s father very much. f
2 marco polo’s taught people to use coal as fuel in the yuan dynasty. f
3 the hall in the summer palace can contain 6,000 people having dinner together.     t
   4. china was more developed than europe at that time when marco travelled to china.   t
5. . as soon as marco polo arrived in italy a cocal war broke out near his town. f
6. marco polo wrote the description of the world before he died.  f
ⅲ listening
listen to the text ( make a preparation for the reading aloud correctly)
ⅳreading 
this time read aloud and answer these questions( do the exercise 2) practise spoken english and have a better understanding of the text
ⅶ language study
   vocabulary practice(do the exercise 3. 4)
   language points
1.break out  (戰爭、爭吵、疾病等)爆發
during the election period, a big strike broke out.
競選期間，爆發了一場大罷工
a quarrel broke out suddenly at midnight with the noise of breaking something.
半夜，他們突然大吵起來，還伴隨著摔東西地聲音
2 in turn(s)  順次;一個接一個地（做某事）
the two sisters cared for their sick mother in turn.
  兩姐妹輪流照看生病的母親。
the boys were asked in turns to see the examiner.
男孩子們一個接一個地被叫去見考官。
3. although  盡管，雖然。用于引導狀語從句，后面的主句不能用but連接。