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Unit8 Every Coin Counts!教学设计
Lesson4 Theme reading
Teaching Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Language Ability:
- Master key vocabulary including shell, trade, value, symbol, cashless.
- Describe the evolution of money in chronological order.
- Analyze the author’s purpose using sentence patterns such as "To inform...".
2. Thinking Quality:
- Construct a timeline of money development to enhance logical thinking.
- Infer the future forms of money based on the text and existing knowledge to cultivate critical thinking.
3. Cultural Awareness:
- Learn about ancient Chinese achievements in currency (Shell Money, Jiaozi) and enhance cultural confidence.
- Understand the relationship between currency development and social progress to broaden historical horizons.
4. Learning Ability:
- Grasp reading strategies including "timeline sorting" and "author's purpose analysis".
Learning Key Points:
1. Sort out the timeline of money development:
barter → shell money → metal coins → paper money → cashless society.
2. Master the method of analyzing the author’s purpose and make clear that the purpose of this passage is to inform readers of the history of money.
3. Use key vocabulary and sentence patterns to describe the development of money.
Learning Difficult Points:
1. Understand the nature of money as a carrier of value and analyze the deep reasons for its evolution.
2. Reasonably infer the possible forms of future money combined with the development of science and technology.
Teaching Methods:
Situational Teaching Method, Task-based Teaching Method, Cooperative Inquiry Method
Teaching Aids:
Multimedia PPT, vocabulary cards, currency history timeline chart
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Lead-in (5 minutes)
1.Greet students and conduct a short free talk: Ask students about their daily payment ways, such as using cash or mobile phones, to activate their prior knowledge.
2.Create a vivid situation: Introduce that the class visited the history museum and saw various ancient currencies, then show pictures of shell money, ancient metal coins and paper money to lead in the topic, arousing students' learning interest.
3. Put forward simple guiding questions to let students think about the changes of Chinese money and prepare for the new lesson.
Step 2: Pre-reading (10 minutes)
1.Vocabulary Teaching: Show key vocabulary on PPT, teach standard pronunciation, explain word meanings, collocations and simple usages, guide students to read and practice repeatedly, and consolidate memory with vocabulary matching games.
2.Background Introduction: Briefly introduce the basic background of ancient Chinese currency development, help students understand the context of the reading passage, and reduce reading obstacles.
3.Prediction Activity: Let students predict the content of the reading passage according to the title and pictures, and encourage them to express their ideas actively.
Step 3: While-reading (15 minutes)
1.Fast Reading: Ask students to skim the passage quickly, sort out the time nodes and corresponding currency forms, and complete the simple timeline chart to grasp the main idea of the passage.
2.Intensive Reading: Guide students to read the passage carefully, find out the characteristics and advantages of each currency form, mark difficult sentences, and conduct targeted explanation by the teacher.
3. Information Confirmation: Check the completion of the timeline chart, answer students' questions, and help students sort out the logical context of the passage to ensure they fully understand the text content.
Step 4: Post-reading (7 minutes)
1. Consolidation Practice: Guide students to retell the currency development process in groups with the help of the timeline chart, and then select representatives to share in class to exercise their language expression ability.
2.Classroom Summary: The teacher leads students to summarize the key vocabulary, main content of the passage and the evolution law of Chinese currency, and sublimates the cultural connotation of currency development.
Step 5: Summary (1 minutes)
Summarize what we have learned in this lesson.
Step 6: Homework (2 minutes)
Must do:
1.Memorize the new words and some phrases;
2.Finish the exercises;
3.Preview Unit8 Lesson4.
Choose to do:
Find out two passages and try to draw the author’s purpose charts.
Blackboard Design:
Unit8 Every Coin Counts!
Lesson4 Theme reading
The History of Chinese Money
Key Vocabulary: exist, shell, metal, invent, invention, greatly, change
Currency Development Timeline:
- In ancient China: shell money
- Qin Dynasty: unified metal coins
- Song Dynasty: paper money
- Modern times: RMB & mobile payment
Key Grammar: simple past tense; adjective comparative degree
Teaching Reflection:(共20张PPT)
Unit 8 Every Coin Counts!
Theme Reading
The history of money
Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, I will be able to:
1. Extract key information by reading texts about the history of money, and briefly describe the forms of currency in different periods and the reasons for their evolution.
2. Review the thinking skills and reading strategies of inferring the author’s purpose through reading texts.
3. Understand the role of money in human development and enhance their interest in history and social changes.
Watch and answer
What did people use to buy things in ancient China
Lead-in
Activity 1 Pair work. Look at the pictures and talk about the questions.
1. Which do you think came first in the history of money Number the pictures.
2. What may money look like in the future
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Pre-reading
It may become completely digital,existing only as numbers in digital wallets or blockchain.
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The History of Money
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today’s Cool History for Teenagers.
What is money When people pay for goods or services, they use some kinds of money. We can find money in museums all over the world. But do you know how money has developed over time
Before people use money, they trade goods directly. For example, a person might trade a cow for five sheep. In this case, the cow was used as a form
Activity 2 Read the text and make an inference about how foreign tourists will make payments in China.
directly /d 'rektl / (adv.)直接，径直
While-reading
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of “money”. People in ancient China invented shell money. Even today we can see the symbol of “shell” in many Chinese characters about money or trade. During the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BCE-476 BCE), each state made their own money. Later, Emperor Qin Shihuang brought together all the warring states and created the Qin Dynasty. To make doing business easier across the country, he made the whole country use the same type of money—a round coin with a square hole in the center. With such a hole, people could put the money together with a rope and carry them around easily. Centuries later, when there was less metal for making money, the government of the Song Dynasty started to produce paper
/ 'w :r / (adj.)战争的；交战的；敌对的
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money— “jiaozi”. This great invention later also appeared in other parts of the world. Now, as information technology develops, people begin to use digital money. If a foreign tourist visits China, he will find people pay for almost everything through their mobile phones.
what will money look like in the future Will there still be paper money We may not have answers to those questions. But money will surely continue to exist in some form.
/' :lm ust/ (adv.)几乎；差不多
/ g'z st/ (v.)存在；实际上有
The History of Money
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today’s Cool History for Teenagers.
What is money When people pay for goods or services, they use some kinds of money. We can find money in museums all over the world. But do you know how money has developed over time
Before people use money, they trade goods directly. For example, a person might trade a cow for five sheep. In this case, the cow was used as a form of “money”. People in ancient China invented shell money. Even today we can see the symbol of “shell” in many Chinese characters about money or trade.
During the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BCE-476 BCE), each state made their own money. Later, Emperor Qin Shihuang brought together all the warring states and created the Qin Dynasty. To make doing business easier across the country, he made the whole country use the same type of money—a round coin with a square hole in the center. With such a hole, people could put the money together with a rope and carry them around easily. Centuries later, when there was less metal for making money, the government of the Song Dynasty started to produce paper money— “jiaozi”. This great invention later also appeared in other parts of the world. Now, as information technology develops, people begin to use digital money. If a foreign tourist visits China, he will find people pay for almost everything through their mobile phones.
what will money look like in the future Will there still be paper money We may not have answers to those questions. But money will surely continue to exist in some form.
The future of money
The history of money
The meaning of money
While-reading
Skim and match.
The History of Money
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today’s Cool History for Teenagers.
What is money When people pay for goods or services, they use some kinds of money. We can find money in museums all over the world. But do you know how money has developed over time
Before people use money, they trade goods directly. For example, a person might trade a cow for five sheep. In this case, the cow was used as a form of “money”. People in ancient China invented shell money. Even today we can see the symbol of “shell” in many Chinese characters about money or trade.
During the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BCE-476 BCE), each state made their own money. Later, Emperor Qin Shihuang brought together all the warring states and created the Qin Dynasty. To make doing business easier across the country, he made the whole country use the same type of money—a round coin with a square hole in the center. With such a hole, people could put the money together with a rope and carry them around easily. Centuries later, when there was less metal for making money, the government of the Song Dynasty started to produce paper money— “jiaozi”. This great invention later also appeared in other parts of the world. Now, as information technology develops, people begin to use digital money. If a foreign tourist visits China, he will find people pay for almost everything through their mobile phones.
what will money look like in the future Will there still be paper money We may not have answers to those questions. But money will surely continue to exist in some form.
Read and answer.
While-reading
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What is the structure of the passage
Activity 3 Match the words with their meanings according to the text.
shell
trade
case
symbol
to buy and sell goods or services
anything used to be a sign for something else
the hard ourter covering of something like eggs and some animals
a certain situation or example of something
While-reading
Clues from the title: ______________________
Author’s purpose
To __________ the readers about money.
Clues from the main idea
_________________________
_________________________.
Clues from the details
Different forms of money: goods, _________,
_________, _____________ and digital money.
The history of money
inform
The development and forms money over time.
shell money
metal coin
Activity 4 Read the text again and complete the following chart.
paper money
Posting-reading
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The History of Money
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today’s Cool History for Teenagers.
What is money When people pay for goods or services, they use some kinds of money. We can find money in museums all over the world. But do you know how money has developed over time
Before people use money, they trade goods directly. For example, a person might trade a cow for five sheep. In this case, the cow was used as a form
《青少年趣味历史》
全世界/世界各地 = around the world =in the world = throughout the world
随着时间的推移
例如
such as 例如，其后无逗号
用……交换……
在 这种情况下
一种……的形式
direct ①v.指导；指挥；导演 ②adj.指导；指挥；导演 ③direction 方向 ④ director n. 董事，导演，负责人
Take some notes.
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of “money”. People in ancient China invented shell money. Even today we can see the symbol of “shell” in many Chinese characters about money or trade. During the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BCE-476 BCE), each state made their own money. Later, Emperor Qin Shihuang brought together all the warring states and created the Qin Dynasty. To make doing business easier across the country, he made the whole country use the same type of money—a round coin with a square hole in the center. With such a hole, people could put the money together with a rope and carry them around easily. Centuries later, when there was less metal for making money, the government of the Song Dynasty started to produce paper money— “jiaozi”.
……的象征/符号
汉字
在春秋战国时期
制造他们自己的钱
做生意
统一的货币
宋朝的政府
纸币
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This great invention later also appeared in other parts of the world. Now, as information technology develops, people begin to use digital money. If a foreign tourist visits China, he will find people pay for almost everything through their mobile phones.
what will money look like in the future Will there still be paper money We may not have answers to those questions. But money will surely continue to exist in some form.
随着信息技术的发展
数字货币
付款
手机
continue to do sth.
继续做某事。
在世界的其他地区
几乎，差不多 =nearly
将来
看起来像
Activity 5 Group work. Discuss the reasons for the development of money based on the table below, and then share your discussion in the class.
digital money
now
the Song Dynasty
the Qin Dynasty
in ancient China
goods
shell money
coin
paper money
before people used money
Long ago, people traded goods directly (like grain for tools). Then, shiny shells became early money because they were scarce and long-lasting . Later, metal coins like gold and silver were used because they lasted longer and were easier to carry. In China, merchants invented paper money during the Song Dynasty to avoid heavy coins. Today, digital money (like mobile payments) is popular because it’s fast and safe . Each change made trade simpler!
Example:
Exercise
周末班级组织参观历史博物馆，同学们看到了各式各样的古钱币，了解到中国货币历经数千年的演变，形式不断更新，给生活带来了巨大便利。请根据短文内容及括号提示完成填空。
The History of Chinese Money
The history of Chinese money 1.________ (exist) for thousands of years.
In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, people used 2.________ (shell) as money.
They were easy 3.________ (carry) and popular at that time.
Later, people made 4.________ (metal) coins.They were much 5.________ (strong) than shells and could last longer.The Qin Dynasty unified the coins, which were round 6.________ a square hole.In the Song Dynasty, people 7.________ (invent) the world’s earliest paper money.It was lighter and more convenient for trade and daily life.This 8.________ (invent) made people’s life easier.
Today, we have RMB. We can pay with paper money, coins, or even mobile phones.
These changes have 9.________ (great) improved our life.
It shows that Chinese money keeps 10.________ (change) all the time.
exists
shells
to carry
metal
stronger
with
invented
invention
greatly
changing
Homework
Must do:
1. Memorize the new words and some phrases.
2. Preview Unit 8 Grammar in Use.
We can:
Find out two passages and try to draw the author’s purpose charts.
We have learned:
1. some new words and expressions about the history of money.
2. to apply the thinking skill and reading strategy to make inferences and analyze the the author’s purpose.
We can:
1. retell the history of money based on the author’s purpose chart.
2. realize the important role of money in the social development.
Summary
Thanks!

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