Unit 8 Adventure Lesson 3 Marco Polo（Period One) Teaching Object . Learn some information about the Silk Road, Xuan Zang and Maco Polo. . Learn and grasp some useful sentence structures. . Learn how advanced the ancient China was. Teaching Important Points .Some key words .Reading strategies. .Retell the story Teaching Difficult Points .Some key words .Reading strategies. .Comprehension of the passage Teaching Procedure Step 1 Lead-in. Introduce the topic though picture and music. Introduce Marco Polo’ information through asking one question. Step 2 Review the key words Ask some students to match the definitions with the words. court 1) the ruler of a country in turn 2) able to be got or used available 3) insist that something is true confuse 4) rich wealthy 5) the chief palace of the emperor/ king emperor 6) as a result stand by 7) unable to understand or think clearly fuel 8) anything that can be burned to make heat or power Step 3 Fast-Reading Read the text quickly, and match the paragraphs with the main ideas. Para.1 Para.2 Para.3 Para.4 Para.5 Para.6 Marco Polo's basic information and early life Marco returned to Italy Inventions and developments in China Kublai Khan welcomed Marco Marco was amazed at China People’s reaction to Marco’s stories 2.Ask some students to divide the passage into several parts. Part One: (Para.1) Time Clue Part Two: (Para.2-Para.4 Part Three: (Para.5-Para.6 Step 4 Further Reading Read the passage carefully and ask students to darw their mind maps and then share them with students. Present the mind map according to the time clue. Step 5 Post –reading Retell the story based on these sentence structures. 1.was born... 2. traveled across... 3. served in... 4. was amazed by... 5. was impressed by… 6. was surprised to see... 7. was confused by… 8. returned…and became… 9. was caught and put into prison 10. told all his stories to... Step 6 Homework. Write a short passage about another great traveler whom you admire, introducing his / her travels and evaluating him /her.
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