Using LanguageⅠ教学设计一等奖

The Second Period Reading Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

archaeology, tentative, accuracy, excavate, interrupt, ornament, assume, regardless, sharpen, cut up, scrape, ample, primitive, preserve, bead, botany, botanical, analysis, specific, seashell, specifically b. 重点句型

I’m sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here?

We have been excavating layers of ash almost six meters thick, which suggests that they might have kept the fire burning all winter.

That’s why they are called hunters and gatherers.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to tell the differences between modern people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their lives. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to tell the differences between modern people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their lives. Teaching important points 教学重点

Talk about Peking man in Zhoukoudian Caves. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

How to express oneself clearly and correctly. Teaching methods教学方法

Listening, reading and discussion. Teaching aids 教具准备

A tape recorder, a projector and a computer. Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ warming up Show pictures. Show two pictures on the screen and let students to choose the one which describes

the life of early people. Students should describe early people’s life by themselves.

They may live in caves and can make fire to keep warm. Step Ⅱ Pre-reading

Students should look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1. who are they?

Discuss what kind of things the peking man may use? And compare their life with ours today.

Then show the following.

Place for living

Furniture Modern people Modern architecture, which is huge, like boxes with flat roofs, sharp corners and glass walls. Beautiful furniture with lots of ornaments mostly made of wood or other special materials. Entertainment Watching TV, surfing Enjoy the Inaccurate Natural furniture made of stone or wood. Accurate Peking man Caves Accuracy Very accurate

the Internet and traveling. nature or family

get-together. Natural food,

Accurate Food

A good variety of cooked food, which tastes delicious. such as nuts and

fruits. Clothes made from animal skins.

Accurate Clothing Clothes made from special material, such as cotton and wood. 2.

Tell what you have known about Zhoukoudian Caves. Zhoukoudian is a relic of primitive culture, 48 kilometers southwest of downtown Beijing, where Longgushan (龙骨山) is standing. Step Ⅲ Reading 1.Fast reading Students should follow the listening tape and read through the passage quickly. 1.1 Read the text quickly and complete its main idea. The text is about a group of students from ________ paid a visit to the Zhoukoudian caves, from which they learned a lot about the ____ of the early people living there. 1.2 Tell the 3 topics that the archaeologist talked about. Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3

2.Careful reading According to the three topics of the text, students will read the three parts in detail then fill in the blanks and answer the questions. 2.1

I. Read the first part carefully, then fill in the blanks and answer the following questions.

Questions:

2.2

II. Read the second part carefully, then fill in the blanks and answer the following questions.

Questions:

2.3

Ⅲ. Read the third part carefully, then fill in the blanks and answer the following questions.

Questions:

2.4 Discussion What’s the main idea of the text? Step Ⅳ summary Summarize the text and fill in the blanks. A group of students from England has come to Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist is showing them______. After_______(find) human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and other objects, they think it is reasonable________(assume) some of_______ earliest people lived in these caves, regardless_____ the cold. They also discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves_______ they made fires.

Step Ⅴ homework 1. Go over the text. 2. Write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Caves. 3).Preview “the present perfect continuous tense”.