Learning about Language优质课一等奖

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

learning about language Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

archaeology, tentative, accuracy, excavate, interrupt, ornament, assume, regardless, sharpen, cut up, scrape, ample, primitive, preserve, bead, botany, botanical, analysis, specific, seashell, specifically b. 重点句型

I’m sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here?

We have been excavating layers of ash almost six meters thick, which suggests that they might have kept the fire burning all winter.

Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have shown us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake.

That’s why they are called hunters and gatherers.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to tell the differences between modern people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their lives. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to tell the differences between modern people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their lives. Teaching important points 教学重点

Talk about Peking man in Zhoukoudian Caves. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

How to express oneself clearly and correctly. Teaching methods教学方法

Listening, reading and discussion. Teaching aids 教具准备

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

Step Ⅰ

Revision Check the homework.

The students will show their information about Zhoukoudian Caves in the following

steps. Step Ⅱ

Lead-in T: In the last period, we learned about the life of ancient Egypt. But what about the life of ancient Chinese? Look at the picture on page 37, and guess what it is. 3nd these students. Step Ⅲ

Reading After listening.

Skimming

This is an individual work. Ask the students to skim the text and write down what the text is about and the three stages of the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue.

Scanning Ask the students to read the text and get the main idea of the dialogue. And then ask them to write down the three ways in which the life of early people differs from modern ones. Ask them to work in pairs and discuss the question.

Careful reading Let the students read the passage again and answer the following questions.

Step Ⅳ

Post-reading Ask the students to fill in the chart on the life and habits of Peking man on page 37 and compare it with the list they made in the pre-reading. What differences are there? Give the students 3 minutes to discuss their conclusion. Then check the answers.

Step Ⅴ

Summary and homework 1)

Go over the text; 2) Write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Caves.