Using LanguageⅡ公开课教案

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Using languageⅡReading The Feast :18,000 BC教案

教学内容分析: The teaching material of this period is a passage about the life of the ancient people, with the title of The Feast:18,000 BC. It tells us something about what happened in primitive societies by telling a story of a feast. From the passage we can also know what the possible work division was between men and women in primitive societies. 三维目标设计: Knowledge and skills 1.

To enable the students to know something about the work division and the life in

primitive societies. 2.

To get the students to learn the following useful new words and structures: applaud, look ahead, accelerate, arrest, if only, fed up with. 3.

To foster

the students’ ability in skimming and looking up information in reference books and improve the students’ reading ability. Process and methods Reading for specific information, summarizing, discussing and practicing Emotion, attitude and value To help the students get a better understanding of the primitive life and learn to cherish our present life. 教学重点、难点

1.

The understanding of the reading passage. 2.

The following key sentences: 1)

It was the custom of family groups to separate and then gather again at different sites for reunions as they followed the animal herds across the grasslands. 2)

If only she had looked ahead and planned better this year! 3)

Having heard wolves howling in the forest, Lala accelerated her walk up the path to the caves fearing that there might be wild beasts lying in wait for her. 教学过程

Step1 Lead-in

Questions: Do you know about Zhoukou Dian? Where is it? What is famous for?

Suggested answers: It is on the

Longgu Mountain, Fangshan District, Beijing. It is famous for Peking Man, a complete skull of an ape-man dating back to 600,00

years.

Let students look at the pictures. Step2 Skimming

Ask students to decide whether the statements are true or false. 1. Lala’s family groups usually lived together. 2. Dahu was good at making tools. 3. The family groups lived on hunting. 4. Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to kill an enemy. Step3 Scanning Task1: Ask students to listen to the tape and do the following multiple choices. 1

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

A. a girl

B. a man

C. a woman of the earliest people

D. a modern girl

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

A. fish.

B. hunting

C. crops

D. farming 3. Lala’s guests came to ____.

A. Dance

B. talk about an important thing

C. see Lala

D. enjoy a feast

4. Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to ______.

A. kill an enemy

B. use them as weapons

C. scrape the fish

D. cut stones 5. From the text we can infer that family groups _____.

A. lived together

B. lived far away

C. lived in the same cave

D. lived separately Suggested answers: CBDCD Task2:Ask students to discuss whether they were men’s tasks or women’s tasks at that time. 1

Making and repairing tools

2

Collecting nuts, fruit and water

3

Protecting the group from harm

4

Cutting down trees 5

Cutting up meat and fish for cooking

6

Preparing skins to make clothes

7

Hunting animals

8

Looking after children

9

Fishing

10

Preparing food Suggested answers:1M 2W3M 4M 5W 6W 7M 8W 9M 10W Task3:Ask students to read the passage again and find out what the possible work division was between man and woman in primitive societies and fill in the following chart. Men’s tasks 1. 2.Fishing 3. 4. 5. Suggested answers: Men’s tasks 1.Making and repairing tools 2.Fishing 3.Huntnig animals 4.Protecting the group from harm 5.Cutting down the trees

2

Women’s tasks 1. 2. 3. 4.Preparing food 5. Women’s tasks 1.Collecting nuts, fruit and water 2.Cutting up meat and fish for cooking 3.Preparing skins to make clothes 4.Preparing food 5.Looking after children

Task4:Ask students to answer the following questions. 1.

Who does the most dangerous tasks? 2.

Where does the danger come from? Suggested answers: 1.

Men do the most dangerous tasks. 2.

The danger comes from the wild animals. Task5:

Ask students to sum up the separate responsibilities (分工) between men and women. Suggested answers: Men’s tasks: more dangerous, require more strength Women’s tasks: more careful

Task6:Ask students to use adjectives to describe the men’s tasks and women’s. Suggested answers: Men’s tasks: patient (tool making), dangerous (hunting), some individual (tool making and

repairing) and some co-operative (hunting), skilful (tool making) Women’s tasks: co-operative (cooking), caring (providing food),

patient (collecting food), skillful (cooking), individual (collecting nuts and fruit) Step3 Debate Some people say: “It is women that should stay at home and take care of the family.” Do you agree or not? Please give your reasons. The expressions may help you.

In my opinion,…

I (don’t) agree because…

I support … because …

No, I can’t agree with …because…

No, that’s not reasonable because…

Step4 Homework 1.Remember the new words and expressions. 2.Preview the next lesson. 3