skills such as analyzing and summarizing. However,many students may not have read stories about Zheng He in detail,so they have no idea why Zheng He was a great explorer and why his voyages made great contributions to China. Key points 1.Students know detailed information about Zheng He and his voyages. 教学重点 2.Students understand the main elements of a narration. Challenges 1.Help the students to build up cultural confidence by comparing. 教学难点 2.Help students to realize what make a great pioneer. 1.Students understand and get the key information of the text. Teaching 2.Students can develop their reading skills such as skimming,scanning and summarizing. Objectives 教学目标 3. Students can develop their analytical and critical thinking by comparing. 4.Students can realize what makes a great pioneer. Teaching 1.Task-based approach approach 教学方法 2.Cooperative learning Teaching aids multimedia 教学用具 PPT Teaching Procedures教学流程 Step 1 Warm-up and lead in Teacher's Activities Students'Activities Purposes 1).Greetings 1).Greetings. 2).Help students to 2).Try to give make definitions of the 1).Arouse students' definitions of the exploration,the great interests about the exploration,the exploration,the great topic. Pre-reading exploration,the explorer and the great 2).Help students to explorer and the great explorer by giving read and understand examples. explorer. 3).Name explorers. the new key words 3).Ask students to naturally. 4).Learn about facts name explorers. 3).Lead in the topic about these famous 4).Make students know explorers. about these explorers Step2 Read in lines Teacher's Activity Students'Activity Purposes 1).Ask students to look 1).Read the title and 1).Help students to at the title and the first the first sentence of get a general While-reading sentence of each each paragraph and understanding of the paragraph and then complete the text. complete a mind-map. mind-map. 2).Help the students 2).Ask students to 2).Follow the to know more about listen to the recording recording and match the Zheng He's and get the main idea of the main idea and voyages.skills such as analyzing and summarizing. However, many students may not have read stories about Zheng He in detail, so they have no idea why Zheng He was a great explorer and why his voyages made great contributions to China. Key points 教学重点 1. Students know detailed information about Zheng He and his voyages. 2. Students understand the main elements of a narration. Challenges 教学难点 1. Help the students to build up cultural confidence by comparing. 2. Help students to realize what make a great pioneer. Teaching Objectives 教学目标 1. Students understand and get the key information of the text. 2. Students can develop their reading skills such as skimming, scanning and summarizing. 3. Students can develop their analytical and critical thinking by comparing. 4. Students can realize what makes a great pioneer. Teaching approach 教学方法 1. Task-based approach 2. Cooperative learning Teaching aids 教学用具 multimedia PPT Teaching Procedures 教学流程 Pre- reading Step 1 Warm-up and lead in Teacher’s Activities Students’Activities Purposes 1). Greetings. 2). Help students to make definitions of the exploration, the great exploration, the explorer and the great explorer by giving examples. 3). Ask students to name explorers. 4). Make students know about these explorers. 1). Greetings. 2). Try to give definitions of the exploration, the great exploration, the explorer and the great explorer. 3). Name explorers. 4). Learn about facts about these famous explorers. 1). Arouse students’ interests about the topic. 2). Help students to read and understand the new key words naturally. 3). Lead in the topic. While- reading Step2 Read in lines Teacher’s Activity Students’Activity Purposes 1). Ask students to look at the title and the first sentence of each paragraph and then complete a mind-map. 2). Ask students to listen to the recording and get the main idea of 1). Read the title and the first sentence of each paragraph and complete the mind-map. 2). Follow the recording and match the main idea and 1). Help students to get a general understanding of the text. 2). Help the students to know more about the Zheng He’s voyages