M3U3Reading教案

M3 Unit3 Reading Civilization

响水县第二中学张丽丽Teaching objectives:

1. Enable the students to get the main point of the diary entries.

2. Improve reading abilities of students.

3. Grasp the reading strategy on how to read diary entries.

4. Develop their creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities. Teaching difficult and important points:

1.Understand the lost civilizations better.

2. Develop their reading abilities.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Lead–in:

1.Do you know some buildings that could represent ancient civilizations in China or throughout the world ?

2.What are the similarities and differences among these places? Can you use some words to describe them?

Step2 Self-study

Self- study 1 fast-reading (课前预习 )

1. Read the passage and answer the questions

1). What country is the author from?

2). What is one main similarity between Pompeii and Loulan?

3). Who was made director of the Pompeii dig in 1860?

4). Who is Professor Zhang?

2. Choose the correct main idea for each part.

Diary 1 A . a lecture about Pompeii and the volcano

Diary 2 B. a visit to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii city

Diary3 C. general information about Loulan

Diary 4 D. the purpose and destination of the trip

Diary 5 E. the discovery of the Loulan kingdom

Self- study 2 Reading strategy ----how to read diary entries

When you are reading diary entries recording someone’s travels, you should look for:

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Step3 Cooperation (合作探究)

Detailed- reading

Task1(Day1-Day3):

1．Read this part and answer:

1）. Where’s Pompeii?

2）. What happened to Pompeii in August AD 79?

3）. How was the buried city discovered?

4）.What were the stepping stones along the road in Pompeii used for?

2.Find the historical information about Pompeii.

Task2(Day10-Day11):

1.Read this part and answer:

1). Why was Loulan an important city about 2,000 years ago?

2). How do many people think Loulan disappeared?

3). According to the last sentence, how did the author feel about the loss of Loulan?

2.Find the historical information about Loulan and fill in the blanks:

1. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

Both Pompeii in （1）________and Loulan in China became（2）____ _____ long ago. Pompeii was（3） ________ in the 8th century BC and was（4）_____ ______ by the Romans in 89BC. On 24th Aug.AD79, the volcano（5） ________ and the city were （6）

_______ ________. Loulan was a（7）______ _______ on the Silk Road. It is believed to have been covered over by（8）__________. There are just a few （9）_________ left.

The remains of buildings were buried（10）_________the sand , together with a lot of （11）_________, such as coins and painted pots. The desert was a green land, but trees were cut down and that

（12）_______ in the city being buried by sand.

2. Please read the passage carefully and choose the right answer.