Unit1 Great explorationPeriod 1By He XiangTeaching contents:ReadingTeaching aims:Language knowledge:1. Students can read and understand new words and phrases.2. Stimulate students interest in “great exploration”.Language skills:1. Students can get the main idea of the passage by skimming and predicting the passage.2. Students can understand the structure of the passage.3. Students deeply understand the life of Zheng He and his experience.Learning strategy:1. Learn to get the main idea of the passage by skimming and predicting the passage.2. Use “spider gram” to help get the structure.Emotion &attitude:Know more about the life of Zheng He and his experience.Teaching key points:1. Get the main idea and the structure of the passage preliminarily.2. Understand the specific content of Zheng Hes seven voyages.Teaching difficult points:1.Students can guess the meanings of words “discovery”, “rise”, “foreign” and “development”2. Retell the passage.Teaching process:Step I GreetingGreet the whole class and make a self introduction.Lead to new class.Step II warming-upInvite the students to think and predict what they may read.Draw a spider gram to show their opinions.Step III Before reading Ask the students to look at the title and the first sentence of each paragraph, and answer the questions.Ask students to read the passage again and try to match each paragraph with its main idea.Step IV While-reading1. Students skim the whole passage and find out what the numbers mean.2. Students read paragraph 1 and decide the statements true or false.3. Students read paragraphs 2-3, and complete the table.4. Students read paragraph4 and answer the questions.Then finish the rest of the table.Check the answer.Step V After readingInvite the students to retell the passage with the help of the spider gram.Step VI DiscussionStudents work in groups to give their opinions about the relevant topic.Invite some students to present their ideas.Step VII SummarySummarize the life of Zheng He and his achievements.Homework1. Surf the Internet to find more information about Zheng He, and try to make a poster.2. Read the passage after the tape. Pay attention to the intonation and pronunciation.