Learning about LanguagePPT及课堂实录内容

A Teaching Plan for Unit 5

Lesson type: Speaking Teacher: Wu Jinhua School: Xinhui No.1 Senior High School Students: Senior 2 Time: June 20, 2018. Teaching Goals:

1. To give Ss information about one site where early people lived in China. 2. Ito have an insight into the kind of questioning techniques. Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Pre-reading

Purpose: To arouse Ss’ interest in learning about archaeology. 1. Show some pictures and encourage Ss to give as much information about the pictures as possible.

2. Ask Ss to complete the form of Pre-reading on P37 by discussing in pairs. 3. Ask Ss to look at the following pictures and answer the question. What can you see from the pictures? Step 2. Fast reading

Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text. (1)

Ask Ss to read the text quickly and complete the following form. Object Needle What can be discovered from it ? 1 They repaired or made clothes.

2. 3.

conclusion:

necklace 1. They cared about their appearance. 2.

conclusion:

3. conclusion: 4.

conclusion:

Suggested Answer: Object Needle What can be discovered from it ? 1 They repaired or made clothes.

2 No methods of making material has been found. 3 Tools have been found to cut and clean animal skins. conclusion: So early people probably wore animal skins. necklace 1 They cared about their appearance. 2 Some of the beads were made of animal bones.

conclusion: So early people killed, cut up and most probably ate animals.

3 Some of the beads were made of animal bones. conclusion: So early people caught and probably ate fish in the nearly lake (as shown by botanical

analyses). 4 Some of the beads were made of seashells. conclusion: So early people may have travelled to the sea or traded with people who had seashells.

(2)

Get Ss to write down the three stages of the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue. Suggested Answers:

Stage 1: Life in the cave Stage 2: What we can learn from a needle Stage 3: What we can learn from a necklace Step 3. Intensive reading

Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text. (1)

Ask Ss to read the text carefully and try to get some details from the text. Work in pairs and try to tell which of the following statements are true and which are false and why. ①

The archaeologists have only found human and animal bones.

②

The archaeologists have been finding the bones of tigers and bears in the caves. ③

The needle they used was very useless. ④

Early people really care about their appearance.

Suggested Answers: ①

F

②

T

③

F

④

T

(2) Ask Ss to take the quiz below and according to the questions, see whether Ss can grasp the details of the text. ①Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned EXCEPT______. A. homes

B. tools

C. dress

D. entertainment ②

Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves kept themselves warm by ______. A. working

B. fighting

C. making fires

D. hunting

③Evidence has showed that the earliest people in the Caves used_______ to make clothes according to the conversation. A. leaves

B. tree skins

C. animal skins

D. cotton ④The main idea of the text is about the ___ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves. A. life and habits

B. food and clothing

C. homes and fishing

D. farming and hunting ⑤From the conversation we can infer that the earliest people in the Caves were very _____. A. busy and rich

B. idle and lazy

C. clever and hard-working

D. stupid and cruel Suggested Answers: ①

D

②

C

③

C

④

A

⑤

C (3) Ask Ss to finish Ex2 on P39 and discuss their answers. Step 4. Retelling

Ask Ss to retell the text briefly in the first person with the following words and phrases.

higher up, in the centre of, the bones of tigers and bears, wear clothes, cut up, rub an ample, on their journeys, grow their own crops

Suggested Answers: We have found human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and ornaments. We have discovered fireplaces in the centre of the caves where they constructed fires. We have been finding the bones of tigers and bears in the caves. Our evidence suggests they did indeed wear clothes made from animal skins. It seems that they might have used sharpened stone tools to cut up the animals and remove their skin. After that they would have had to rub an ample amount of salt inside the skin trade between early peoples or they traveled to the seaside on their journeys. They didn’t grow their own crops, but picked fruit and killed animals. 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. 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?

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. Step 8. Homework

1. Ask Ss to use the new words and expressions to make some sentences.

2. Ask Ss to write a short passage about the story of the earliest people.