UNIT 2 Lesson 8 Marco Polo and the Silk Road 教案 .doc

UNIT 2 Its Show TimeLesson 8 Marco Polo and the Silk Road教案教学目标 语言知识： (1)学习和掌握本节课重点词汇。(2) 学习和掌握作报告的相应格式和话术：Hello, everyone!My project is about.Thank you!By: XXXDate: .(3)掌握动词一般过去时的变化，尤其是动词的不规则变化，并能熟练使用。语言技能：通过本课的学习，培养学生综合运用语言的能力，有效提高学生听说读写能力。情感态度：通过本课的学习，开拓学生的视野，使他们积累更多的人文地理常识，培养学生的探索精神和热爱旅游的生活态度。在老师和同学们的鼓励下，通过个人展示，可以培养学生的自信心，并能更好地调动孩子教学重点1.掌握词汇:Italy, age, goods, Europe, Asia, journey, king, coal, discover, invent, other, hope, at the age of, be new to.2.能运用一般过去时熟练介绍名人的生平和重要成就。教学难点1.熟练、正确地将动词原形转化为动词的一般过去时。2.掌握动词的不规则变化。教学步骤Step 1 Revision (about 5 min)1. Quick response: Teacher speaks Chinese meanings, and the students say out the English words and expressions they learnt in last lesson.2. Translation: Translate the important sentence patterns one by one.3. Give students 1 minute to review the conversations they made yesterday, then invite some pairs to show their conversations.Step 2 Presentation (about 20 min)1. Divide students into 9 groups as usual, and six students for each. Teach the new words of this lesson.2. Teacher shows Marco Polos picture and makes students say something about him (Encourage them to try to use English as much as possible). Then, listen to the tape, and fill in the blanks.3. Let students read and analyze the passage about Marco Polo and the Silk Road in groups. Translate the passage and try to answer the following questions:(1). What country did Marco Polo come from?(2). How did he and his brother travel?(3). When did he travel to Peking?(4). How long did his journey last?(5). What did he bring back to his home country?4. Ask some students to answer the questions.5. Let one of groups translate the passage together.6. Make students analyze every important points of the passage, especially the Irregular Verbs. Teachers add more details.7. Group Contest: Let a group sums up the usage of Simple Past Tense. Then, pick up two groups to write the Irregular Verbs on the blackboard as much as they can. Award the first place, and make others read these words after them.Step 3 Practice (about 8 min)1. Teacher gives students a similar Chinese passage which is about a famous person, and let students translate in groups.2. Let students translate the passage sentence by sentence and then say it out after translation.Step 4 Production (about 5 min)Let others show pictures and introduce a famous person like that. They must use Simple Past Tense.Step 5 Summary & Homework (about 2 min)1. Let some students sum up what they have learnt today.They are expected to sum up the key words, phrases and sentence patterns. And