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Teaching Plan for Book 8 Unit 5 Using language: THE FEAST: 18, 000 BC’s

I. Learning goals 1.

Learn about the feast in 18000 BC. 2.

Learn about the life at that time. II. Warming-up

1.

Listen to Part 1 of the tape and fill the layers in the “wastepaper basket” diagram below.

2. Listen to Part 2 and complete

the passage. It uses radioactivity to measure the amount of _______ in living things. The _______ in a dead body __________ at a _____ rate. We know how long that takes, so we can measure the amount of _______ and ________ how old a bone is. 3. Look at this archaeological drawing of a section showing buildings at different times and work out the order in which they

were built.

The oldest building is B because it has no layers underneath it.

The second oldest building is C because it has one layer underneath it. That layer is the remains of the building in B. The most recent building is building A. It has two layers underneath. They are the remains of buildings B and C.

III. Presentation

i. Scanning What kind of food did Lala’s family prepare for the feast?

Nuts, fruit, fish, the deer and pig meat.

ii. Skimming Please decide whether the statements

are true or false. 1. Lala’s family groups usually lived

together. 2. Dahu was good at making tools. 3. The family groups lived on hunting. 4. Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to kill an enemy. iii.

Careful reading Answer the following questions after

reading the text: 1. Which jobs did Dahu do? 2. Which jobs did Lala do? 3. Who works cooperatively and who does tasks alone?

4. Who does the most dangerous tasks? 5. Where does the danger come from?

iv. Discussion In groups discuss whether they were men’s tasks or women’s tasks at that time.

1

Making and repairing tools

2

Collecting nuts, fruit and water

3

Protecting the group from harm

4

Cutting down trees

5

Cutting up meat and fish for cooking

6

Preparing skins to make clothes

7

Hunting animals

8

Looking after children

v. Post-reading

Fill in the blanks according to the text. Not having ____________ and planned better, Lala felt very worried about the preparations for her feast. So she turned for home quickly with her ________ of nuts, melons and other fruit. When she was near home, a delicious smell ________ her progress and she became dizzy with hunger. She saw her mother

and aunts __________ the deer and pig meat over the fire. Just then Dahu, her ________, as well as the best __________, came back with several ____.

Later he began his task: he _________ his scrapers until they were sharp enough to ______ the meat and to scrape the fish. Soon, the first of the guests began to arrive. Lala hoped it was going to be just as wonderful as last year!

VI. Homework

Comprehend the whole text again.

VII. Teaching reflection

Pay more attention to activating and motivating the students to learn and take part in the class activities.