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Unit5 Meeting your ancestors

Using language I Teaching Goals: 1. To get Ss to learn more about the knowledge about archaeology. 2. To get Ss to know something about the two main ways archaeologists use to date objects found in the ground. Difficult Points （1）熟练掌握英语动词的各种时态形式及其用法，并学习现在完成进行时；

（2）比较准确地表达“存在”、“度量”及人或事物的“特征”。

Teaching Procedure: Step 1. Reading and speaking(Using Language) 1. Leading-in Purpose: To lead Ss to the topic and arouse the Ss’ interest in the reading text. (1)

Ask Ss to look at the two pictures on P43 and guess what the text is about. (2)

Ask Ss to talk about the following question. What might the feast 18000 BC be like?

2. Fast reading Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text.

Ask Ss to read the text in two minutes and ask Ss to discuss the question and then answer in pairs. What did Dahu do and what did Lala do? Suggested Answers: DAHU: catch fish, repair stone tools, make scrapers and axe-heads LALA: collect fruit and nuts, prepare food

3. Intensive reading (1) Ask Ss to read the text carefully and choose the best answers to the following questions. ①

From the first paragraph, we can learn that the family groups lived on

.

A. fish

B. crops

C. hunting

D. farming ②

Lala’s guests came to

.

A. dance

B. talk about an important thing

C. enjoy a feast

D. see Lala ③

Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to

.

A. kill an enemy

B. use them as weapons

C. scrape the fish

D. cut stones ④

This text is mainly an imaginative story about a family feast of

.

A. a girl

B. a man

C. a girl of the earliest people

D. a modem girl ⑤

From the text we can infer that family groups

.

A. lived together

B. lived far away

C. lived in the same cave

D. lived separately

Suggested Answers:

①

C

②

C

③

A

④

B

⑤

A

(2) Ask Ss to retell the reading text according to the form.

Men’s

tasks

Women’s takes

①

Making and repairing tools

②

Fishing

③

Cutting down trees

④

Hunting animals

⑤

Protecting the group from harm

①

Collecting nuts, fruit and water

②

Cutting up meat and fish cooking

③

Preparing skins to make clothes

④

Preparing food

⑤

Looking after children Step 2. Speaking and writing (Using Language) 1. Ask Ss to answer the following questions. (1)

Have you ever heard about Sanxingdui? (2)

Do you know what has been found in Sanxingdui? 2. Ask Ss to look at the pictures on P44 and tell them they are what have been found in Sanxingdui. And then let them discuss the following question. What were these objects possibly used for? 3. Ask Ss to write a description of Sanxingdui Ruins. The following points must be included in the writing. (1) the name of the site where the four objects were found and their possible dates; (2) a description of each including appearance, shape and a guess about the material it was made of;

(3) what each might have been used for;

(4) what we can learn from these objects about the people who lived then. 4. Ask some Ss to read aloud their descriptions before the class.

Step 3. Listening (Using Language) 1. Ask Ss to discuss the following question. Do you know how to date bones? 2. Ask Ss to listen to the tape and finish Ex1 of Listening and speaking on P42. 3. Play the tape again and ask Ss to finish Ex2 of Listening and speaking on P42. 4. Ask Ss to look at the following pictures and try to work out their chronological order. Then let them give their reasons.

(1) ______________ (2) ______________ (3) ______________

Step 4. Homework Ask Ss to choose the best answers to the following questions. 1.

with a difficult situation, Arnold decided to ask his boss advice.

A. To face

B. Having faced

C. Faced

D. Facing 2. Sarah, hurry up. I’m afraid you can’t have time to

before the party.

A. get changed

B. get change

C. get changing

D. get to change 3. I’m going to the supermarket this afternoon. Do you have anything

?

A. to be buying

B. to buy

C. for buying

D. bought 4. Apples are usually sold by

weight and eggs are sometimes sold by

dozen.

A. the; the

B. /;a

C. /;the

D. the ;a

5. —You didn’t get hurt at all in the traffic accident? —

. I was a lucky dog. A. No problem

B. I don’t think so

C. I’m afraid not

D. Good heavens no 6. Johnson worked very hard

he might fail the examination again.

A. filling that

B. fearing

C. filling of

D. filled with

7. He picked a book from the shelf

books.

A. filling with

B. filled of

C. feared of

D. fearing of

8. She often

London from Oxford at weekends.

A. comes down to

B. comes up to

C. comes over

D. comes on to

9. He tried to avoid

responsibility

the accident.

A. to take; for

B. taking; for

C. taking; of

D. to take; of 10. His bad manners suggest

family education.

A. lacking of

B. a lack of

C. lack for

D. to lack 11. The little baby

the little girl’s attention.

A. rose

B. raised

C. sank

D. dropped 12. My spirits

when I heard the news that an earthquake had happened in my hometown.

A. rose

B. raised

C. sank

D. dropped 13. We must regard this situation

very serious.

A. with

B. like

C. as

D. for

14. She shows

toward her children.

A. influence

B. affection

C. affect

D. efforts 15. The way

he explained to us was quite simple.

A. in which

B./

C. in that

D. where Suggested Answers:

1～5 DBCDA

6～10 BADBB

11～15 BBCBB