Using LanguageⅠ教学设计第二课时

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Using language Reading

Teaching goals

1. Target language a. 重点词汇和短语

look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skilful, exhausting b. 重点句型

If only she had looked ahead and planned better! She could see her mother and aunts preparing the meat of deer and pig over the fire. 2. Ability goals

Enable the students to describe the life of early people. 3. Learning ability goals

Help the students learn how to describe early people’s life. Teaching important & difficult points

Enable the students to know more about the early people’s life and describe it. Teaching methods

Task-based teaching method, reading and discussion. Teaching aids A projector and a computer. Teaching procedures: Step Ⅰ Lead-in

1.

Share something about Peking man and the life of them. Show some pictures to make it vivid. 2.

Peking Man life is part of our ancient ancestors. What about the general ancestors’

life? Now turn to page 43 and look at the pictures and think what these early people are doing? S1: Some are preparing food. S2: One is making tools by sharpened stone tools and scraper.

T: Good. From the picture, we can learn something about early people’s life. Now read the passage and find out what the life was like. Step II Reading Listenning

Play the tape for the students to listen and check true (T) or false(F) 1.

Lala ’s family groups usually lives together.(

) 2.

Dahu was good at making tools.(

) 3.

The family group live on hunting.(

)

4.

Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to kill an enermy. (

)

Scanning

1. Which jobs did Dahu do? 2. Which jobs did Lala do? 3.What

kind

of food did

lala ‘s family prepare for the feast?

After reading the passage, the students discuss the above questions in groups and then try to find the answers to the above questions.

Skimming Read the reading passage, in groups discuss what the possible work division was between men and women at that time and then fill in the blanks on P42 Exercise1. After a few minutes, check the answers.

Sample answers:

Men’s tasks: 1.Making and repairing tools. 2.Fishing.3.Hunting animals.4.Protecting the group from harm.5.Cutting down trees.

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. Step III Post-reading Now look closely at the tasks above and discuss which adjectives best describe each of them. Give your reasons. Sample answers:

adjectives best describe the women: caring, affectionate, safe, co-operative

adjectives best describe the men: protective, dangerous, patient, individual, exhausting S1: The fact that when Lala sat down abruptly, she was scooped up by her sister shows women were caring. Women were safe because they usually stayed inside the caves preparing food over the fire.

S2: When men went out fishing and hunting, women stayed inside preparing food. So they were both co-operative.

S3: When Dahu went back with fish over his shoulder, and took the stone scrapers from Lala, he smiled and went outside the cave. From Dahu’s behavior, we can infer men were affectionate.

S4: From the descriptions about Dahu, such as “carried”, “smiled”, “looked carefully”, “went to a corner”, “pulled out more tools”, “chose one large stone”, “began to hit...”, we can see men were patient, and often did individual work. They did so many things and their work was dangerous and exhausting.

…

T: Good work. We often use adjectives to describe things and people. If we have two or more adjectives, how can you arrange these adjectives? Look at the following exercise: Show the following.

What surprised him most happened ____ Sunday morning. A. in a cold rainy

B. on a cold rainy C. in a rainy cold

D. on a rainy cold T: Which will you choose? If there are more adjectives, what will be the order? Now look at the following chart.

Show the following.

A

1

2

Size

Short

3 4 Origin British 5 6

Girl

Shape Color Slim

Black

Material

Use

A

Small

Blue Chinese

Serving Dish For example:

a nice long new black British plastic pen. some beautiful little red flowers. Step IV Language points Explain some language points and do some connected exercises. Step Ⅴ Homework 1.Reading the passage after class . 2.Practice using two or more adjectives to describe the Sanxingdui Ruins objects on page 44.