Using LanguageⅠ板书设计及设计说明

Unit 5

Meeting your ancestors

Learning about language Teaching Goals: 1.To enable Ss to master some new words and expressions.

2. To get Ss to have knowledge of this grammar point: the present perfect continuous tense Teaching Procedures: Teaching Procedures: Step 5. Word study. Purpose: To train Ss’s listening ability and language capacity.

Divided into three groups. Each group is supposed to read through each part, and then find the following phrases.

as well as

a pleasure to

keep out

be aware that

cut up

in the centre of

clue to

be made of

regardless of

be used to do sth

share…with

on one'

keep…burning

use…for

mean to do

I wonder how…

make…soft

continue doing sth

move around

Step 6. Sentence study Explain some important sentences (1)

You must be aware that we’ve found evidence of some of the earliest people who

lived in this part of the world.

(2) So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold.

(3) That would have kept them warm, cooked the food and scared wild animals away as well.

(4) We have been excavating layers of ash almost six meters thick, which suggests that they

might have kept the fire burning all winter.

(5) This one looks very like a fish bone.

(6) That’s why they are called hunters and gatherers. Step 7. Discussion Ask Ss to discuss the following questions with their partners and give their own opinions.

(1) How did the earliest people keep warm?

(2) What animals were their most dangerous animals?

(3) Did they grow their own crops?

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Suggested answers:

(1) They set up fireplaces in the centre of the caves and hang animal skins at the cave mouth

to keep out the cold.

(2) Tigers and bears.

(3) No, they didn’t. Encourage Ss to give their opinions.

1.Word study 1. Ask Ss to complete the following sentences according to the notes (1) The event has a far-reaching historical s_______. (2) ______（不知怎么地）he couldn’t get to sleep. (3) They will make a s_______（彻底的）search of the city. (4) The workers are ______（挖掘）a tunnel through the mountain. (5) We made a careful _______（分析）of the problem. Suggested Answers:

(1). significance

(2) Somehow

(3) systematic

(4) excavating

(5) analysis 2. Ask Ss to choose the best answers to the following questions. (1) We_____ for the bus half an hour, but it has not come yet. A. have been waiting

B. have waited C. are waiting

D. have been waited (2) You are so late. We ____ you for a whole hour.

A. waited

B. had waited

C. were waiting for

D. have been waiting for (3) He ____ articles for our wall-newspaper the three years, and he _____about thirty articles.

A. has written; has written

B. has been writing; wrote

C. is write; has been writing

D. has been writing; has written (4) It _____ for two days. The roads will be blocked if it ______ soon.

A. snowed; won’t

B. has been snowing; doesn't stop

C. has snowed; won’t stop

D. snow ; doesn’t stop (5) It _____ for two hours and the ground is too wet to play on, so the match______.

A. has been raining; has put off

B. has rained; is put off

C. was raining; has been put off

D. has been raining; has been put off (6) He wanted to know how this _______.

A. had happened

B. happened

C. has happened

D. has been happening

(7) I welcome any change that will _____ something better.

A. lead in

B. lead to

C. bring in

D. bring up (8) I think her ideas are right, but _____ I’m not completely sure.

A. somewhat

B. somehow

C. somewhere

D. sometime (9) He was late _______ the traffic jam.

A. lead to

B. as a result

C. as a result of

D. because (10) I ______ him, because he often tells lies.

A. think much of

B. think highly of

C. think little of

D. think high of

Suggested Answers:

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(1) A

(2) D

(3) D

(4) B

(5) D

(6) A

(7) B

(8) B

(9) C

(10) C

3. Ask Ss to complete the following sentences with the phrases in the form. in spite of ; think highly of; lead to; take turns to ;refer to; be fed up with

(1) Don’t _____ the dictionary if you come across a new word when you read a passage. (2) _____ the heavy rain, they went to school as usual. (3) I _____ his constant complaint about the had condition. (4) We’d better _____ drive the car , for it’s a long journey. (5) His carelessness _____ an accident. (6) I don’t ________________ her idea. Suggested Answers:

(1) refer to

(2) In spite of

(3) am/was fed up with

(4) take turns to

(5) led to

(6) think highly of Step 3. Practice Purpose: To get Ss to have knowledge of the grammar through exercises.

Ask Ss to translate the following sentences: 1. 我整个早晨都在读书。

2. 他等公共汽车已经3个小时了，可公共汽车还没有来。

3. 在我们到达上海时，已经下了3天雨了。

4. 我们一直住在上海。

Suggested Answers: 1. I have been reading books the whole morning. 2. He has been waiting for the bus for 3 hour, but the bus hasn’t arrived. 3. It had been raining for 3 days when we arrived in Shanghai. 4. We have lived in Shanghai. Or we have been living in Shanghai.

Step 4. Homework 1. Ask Ss to finish the exercises of Learning about Language on P40～P41. 2. Ask Ss to preview Using Language.

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