Using LanguageⅠ教案和学案内容

Unit 5

Meeting your ancestors

Using language

Reading

The feast: 18000 BC Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言：

重点词汇和短语

look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone, arrowhead, axe, division,

affection, affectionate, patient, skillful, exhausting 重点句子

If only she had looked ahead and planned better! She could see her mother and aunts preparing the meat of deer and pg over the fire. 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the Ss to describe the life of early people 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the Ss learn how to describe the life of early people’s life Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点

Enable the Ss know more about the early people’s life and describe it. Teaching methods教学方法

Task-based method, reading and discussion Teaching aids教具准备

A computer and a projector, a recorder Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方法

Step1. Leading-in Purpose: To lead Ss to the topic and arouse the Ss’ interest in the reading text. (1)

Ask Ss to look at the two pictures on P43 and guess what the text is about. (2)

Ask Ss to talk about the following question. What might the feast 18000 BC be like?

Step2. Fast reading

Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text.

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Ask Ss to read the text in two minutes and ask Ss to discuss the question and then answer in pairs. What did Dahu do and what did Lala do? Suggested Answers: DAHU: catch fish, repair stone tools, make scrapers and axe-heads LALA: collect fruit and nuts, prepare food

Step3. Intensive reading (1) Ask Ss to read the text carefully and choose the best answers to the following questions. ①

From the first paragraph, we can learn that the family groups lived on

.

A. fish

B. crops

C. hunting

D. farming ②

Lala’s guests came to

.

A. dance

B. talk about an important thing

C. enjoy a feast

D. see Lala ③

Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to

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A. kill an enemy

B. use them as weapons

C. scrape the fish

D. cut stones ④

This text is mainly an imaginative story about a family feast of

.

A. a girl

B. a man

C. a girl of the earliest people

D. a modem girl ⑤

From the text we can infer that family groups

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A. lived together

B. lived far away

C. lived in the same cave

D. lived separately Suggested Answers:

①

C

②

C

③

A

④

B

⑤

A

(2) Ask Ss to retell the reading text according to the form.

Men’s

tasks

Women’s takes

①

Making and repairing tools

②

Fishing

③

Cutting down trees

④

Hunting animals

⑤

Protecting the group from harm

①

Collecting nuts, fruit and water

②

Cutting up meat and fish cooking

③

Preparing skins to make clothes

④

Preparing food

⑤

Looking after children Step4

Language Points Play the tape for the Ss to listen. At the same time, the students are asked to find the answers to the following questions. 1.

Which jobs did Dahu do? ( to make tools, catch fish, cut up meat, scraper the fish and welcome guests)

2.

Which jobs did Lala do?(to collect nuts and fruit, to prepare the meat over the fire)

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3.

Who works cooperatively and who does tasks alone? (Both men and women work cooperatively. For example, Lala’s mother and aunts were preparing the meat of deer and pig over the fire. Men do tasks alone) 4.

Who does the most dangerous tasks?( men do the most dangerous tasks) 5.

Where does the danger come from? ( The danger comes from the wild animals) Step 5

Homework Practicing using two or more adjectives to describe the Saxingdui Ruins objects on page44.

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