Using LanguageⅠ课堂实录

Instructional Design Book 8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 1.

Background information Students:55

Period: period 1

Type: reading

Duration: 45mins 2.

Analysis of content The content is the reading part from NSEFC Book 5 Unit 5. The topic of this unit is archaeology. Warming-up has 2 practices aimed at making students have a rough understanding of archaeology. Pre-reading has a form which is designed to make students compare the difference between modern people and Peking man in terms of place for living, furniture, entertainment, food, clothing. Reading part is a passage about the life of Peking man living in Zhoukoudian caves. Comprehending has 3 different exercises, aiming to check students’ understanding of this passage after reading.

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Analysis of learners Students have already known what cultural relic is in book 2 Unit 1. While, they have no idea about archaeologist and archaeology which are linked to cultural relics. In this unit, students are going to read a passage about another cultural relic, Zhoukoudian caves, where the Peking men lived in thousands years ago. After learning it, students will have a better understanding about this topic. 4.

Instructional objectives 1)Language knowledge: At the end of the class, students should be able to know the meaning, the form,and the usage of the following words and phrases. starvation, tentative, interrupt, acute, regardless of, beast, assume, at most, sharpener, cut up, primitive, botanical, analysis, ripen, seashell 2)Language skill: At the end of the class, students should be able to: A: Analyze the passage structure, B: Use skimming, scanning and careful-reading skills to summarize the main idea and get more detailed information of the passage, C: Write a short passage about Peking man using the words or phrases they’ve learned during the class 5.

Affective attitude At the end of this class, students should be aroused the interests in English learning and know more information about the life of Peking man and other knowledge about archaeology. Meanwhile their confidence in Chinese cultural should be stimulated as well. 6.

Key points 1)Understand the main idea of this passage and make clear about the passage structure 2)Master the key words and phrases in this text, including the meaning, the form and the usage 3)Use skimming, scanning and careful reading skills to finish the reading tasks 4)Try to write a short passage by using the key words and phrases

in this text

7. Difficulties 1)How to use skimming, scanning and careful reading skill to help them finish reading tasks 2)How to find key sentence in each paragraph 3)How to use those key sentences and key words to help them summarize the passage 8. Instructional methods 1)Communicative teaching method: this method aims to practice students speaking skill and help students to use the English properly in daily communication 2)Task-based language teaching: this method, which is used in reading procedure often, aims to train students ability to finish reading tasks in a limited time by using skimming, scanning, guessing and careful reading skills. All of these reading skills are helpful to students comprehending improvement. 3)Cooperative teaching method: this method is designed to improve students cooperative learning ability, during which they can learn how to communicate with others, and how to deal with the problems effectively. Meanwhile, this method is useful to strengthen students’ relationship. 9. Instructional aids: blackboard, multimedia, textbook, PPT 10.

Teaching procedure

Interaction pattern

Steps

Teacher’s activity

Students’ activity

Step1: Warming up

(5 mins) Whole class work Questions: 1.

Do you know the following objects? Answer the questions according to their background information

2.Who do you think find these cultural relics? Do you know any famous archaeologists and their achievements?

Step2: Pre-reading (2 mins) Group work Give students the background information about the famous archaeologist, Pei Wenzhong, the first one to discover the skull of Peking man Read the information about Pei Wenzhong

Step3: Whole class Part 1. Introduction (para 1) While-reading work 1.Where did the students come from? (25 mins) 2.Which place did they visit? 3.Who acted as a tour guide?

Part 2. Skimming skim the passage and find out the three topics of the dialogue. (learning tips: pay attention to the pictures) Topic 1: Topic 2: Topic 3:

Part 3. Scanning Topic1: life in the caves (beginning--line23) 1.Where did Peking men live? 2.How did they keep warm? What else did they use fire for? 3.What wild animals were there?

Topic 2: needle (line 24--line 36) Task 1 : describe the needle for us Task 2: How did they make clothes from animal skin? (pay attention to the connective words, such as first, second, then, after, finally) It seems They used the ____ to that

___ animals and remove their skin Then

_____ were probably used to ___ the fat and meat from the skin After that

They would ____ an ample amount of salt onto the skin to make it _____ Finally

Cut it and _____ the pieces together. Quite a difficult and ___ work

Topic 3: necklace (line 37--the end) Read the passage quickly and find answers

Find the topic by using the learning tips

Read from the beginning to line 23 and find the answers

Read from the line 24 to line 36 and finish these tasks

Read from line

1.What’s the necklace made of?

37 to the end 2.Why was the archaeologist sure that some and finish the beads were made of fish bones? tasks 3.What was the student’s puzzle?

Part 4. Summary: the life of Peking men

Peking man

place for living

furniture

food

tools

clothing&decoration

Step4: Post-reading (7 mins) Group work Discussion: Did the students simply accept the information from the archaeologist? What qualities do the students have? List some adjectives.

Discuss the questions and pick out a representative to answer the questions Step5: Homework

(1 mins) Read the passage again and find out some Do the difficult language points in this passage homework after class (to be written immediately after class)

Step6:

Reflection

11.Blackboard design:

Unit 5 A visit to the Zhoukoudian caves

Topic 1: life in the caves

Topic 2: what we can learn from the needle Topic 3: what we can learn from the necklace