Using LanguageⅠ教案3

Unit 5

Meeting Your Ancestors.

Using language教案

Teaching Aims;

1.

Enable the students to master the reading skills; skimming and scanning

2.

Enable the students to know something about the work division and the life in primitive society. Teaching difficulties and Focus; 1.

Let students understand the passage well 2.

Let students master the usage and structures that appear in the passage. Teaching procedure

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Task 1

Scanning

Match the main idea of each paragraph.

D

Paragraph 1

A. the description of Dahu.

B

Paragraph 2

B. Lala and her families made

preparations

for the feast.

A

Paragraph 3

C. how did Dahu make tools.

C

Paragraph4

D. Lala worried about the preparations

for the feast and she hoped the

feast could be a good as the one

last year. Task 2

Careful reading Choose the best answers .

(CCCCD) 1.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 modern girl 2. From the first paragraph, we can learn that the family groups lived on _____.

A. fish

B. crops

C. hunting

D. farming

3. Lala’s guests came to ____.

A. dance

B. talk about an important thing

C. enjoy a feast

D. see Lala 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

Task 3 Read the passage and fill the blanks according to the text Not having __________ and planned better, Lala felt

very worried about the preparations for her feast. So she turned for home quickly with her ______ of nuts and

fruits.

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When she was near home, a delicious smell _____her progress and she became dizzy with hunger. She saw her mother and aunts _______ the deer and pig meat over the fire. Just then Dahu, her ______, as wellas the best _______, came back with several _____and some piece of wood. Later he began his task: he ______ his scrapers until they were sharp enough to _______ the meat and to scrape the fish. Soon, the first of the guests began to arrive. Lala hoped it was going to be just as _______as last year.

Answers：looked ahead，collection，arrested，preparing，husband，

toolmaker，fish，sharpened，cut up ，wonderful

Exploring point 1.

Passage Comprehension

1 Read the text carefully and find out what the possible division work was between men and women in primitive society .

Men’s

tasks

1Making and repairing tools

2

Fishing

3Hunting animals 4Protecting the group from harm

5Cutting down trees

Women’s tasks

1Collecting nuts, fruit and water

2Cutting up meat and fish for cooking

3Preparing skins to make clothes

4

Preparing food. 5 Looking after children

2.In pairs work out which jobs Dahu did

and which Lala did.

Name

Dahua

Lala

Jobs

catch fish, repair stone, make scrapers and axe-heads

collect fruit and nuts, prepare food

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Now look closely at the tasks before and discuss which adjectives best describe each of them. Give your reasons.

caring

tough

protective

dangerous

safe

useful

co-operative

patient

individual

exhausting

skilful

Homework

1. Practice using two or more adjectives to describe the Sanxingdui Ruins objects on page 44. 2. Try to write a short passage to describe the life of the primitive people.

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