Using LanguageⅡ优秀说课稿

Using language----- Integrating skills (Ⅱ) Teaching goals

1. Target language

Key words and expressions hint, hut, archaeological discovery, seal, marvelous, insignia, intestines 2. Ability goals Enable the students to write two paragraphs solving two archaeological problems.

3. Learning ability goals Help the students learn how to write two paragraphs solving two archaeological problems. Teaching important points

How to write two paragraphs solving two archaeological problems. Teaching difficult points

Learn to solve two archaeological problems. Teaching methods

Listening, writing and discussion.

Teaching aids

A recorder, a projector and a computer. Teaching procedures & ways

Step Ⅰ Revision

Check the homework. Ask the students to show their work.

Step Ⅱ Listening and reading First ask the students to read the passage and work out the answers to the questions in Part 2 on page 83.

Ask the students to listen to the recording and fill in the chart in Part 1.

After listening to the tape, the students have 2 minutes to scan the passage and then fill in the chart. 2 minutes later, check the answers.

Sample answers:

Object

Material Colour

Decoration

The statues of the …

king

Shoes

Boxes

Royal insignia

Lahars

…

Gold …

Gold

Strange

…

Beautifully painted

…

Decorated with the head of animals and gods

Flowers

Vases

…

Decorated some beautiful

Chests

Seat

Cart Gold …

…

Golden …

For the Pharaoh …

White

flower designs

with …

…

Then let the students discuss how to secure and protect the site.

Do you think how can we protect the site? Give the students several minutes to discuss this problem. When the class discussion is over, vote on the best ideas for securing and protecting the site. Possible ideas for securing and protecting the site: 1. Remove the rubbish. 2. Don’t throw things round the site.

3. Encourage others to protect the site. Step Ⅲ Writing Now turn to page 85 and look at the pictures and questions below them.

First discuss these questions below the pictures.

Three minutes later, check the discussion. Now you can write two paragraphs giving your ideas and your opinions as the information tells you to do. Several minutes later, let some students read their writings.

A sample version:

I think the chronological order of bulling the pyramids is B-A-C. The earliest pyramid is B, which is called step pyramid. It was built during the Third Dynasty (2800 B.C.). Step pyramid is generally considered the first tomb in Egypt to be built entirely of stone. The second is A. It was built about 2,550 B.C., King Khufu, the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, commissioned the building of his tomb at Giza. Then the third one is C. It is called bent pyramid, which was built for Khafre, the fourth pharaoh of the fourth dynasty. The bent pyramid at Dahshur shows us that the ancient Egyptians experimented a lot with the slope of the pyramids. In the middle of construction the builders must have decided that the slope of the building was too steep to continue. Thus, the top half of the pyramid has a different slope.

All the three pyramids come to a point at the top. As its name suggests, step pyramid is a series of six levels of stone decreasing in size as they ascend to about 200 feet (60 meters) in height. Egyptologists have developed many theories about why the tombs of the early pharaohs were built in the pyramid shape. Variable reasons are possible: the pyramid represented the first land to appear at the beginning of time

— a hill called Ben-Ben，ｔhe pyramid had sloping sides so that the dead pharaoh could symbolically climb to the sky and live forever and the pyramid represented the rays of the sun. Step Ⅳ Homework Ask the students to summarize what they have learned in this unit and preview the next.