Learning about Language主要内容及教案内容

Book8 Unit5 Using Langue

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言：

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 重点句子

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

We have been excavating layers of ash almost six meters thick, which suggest that they might have kept the fire burning all winter. Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have been specifically showing us, all the fields around there used to be part of a large shallow lake. 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the Ss 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 Ss learn to tell the differences between modern people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their lives. Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点

Talk about Peking man in Zhoukoudian Caves. Teaching methods教学方法

Listening, reading and discussion

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方法

Step I Revision and Lead-in Check the homework.

The Ss will how their information about Zhoukoudian Caves in the following steps. 1. Now that she is out of a job, Lucy _______ going back to school, but she hasn’t decided yet.

A. had considered

B. has been considering

C. considered

D. is going to consider

2. The construction of the two new railway lines __________ by now.

A. has completed

B. have completed

C. have been completed

D. has been completed

3. Customers are asked to make sure that they __________the right change before leaving the shop.

A. will give

B. have been given

C. have given

D. will be given

4. John and I________ friends for eight years. We first got to know each other at a Christmas party. But we_________ each other a couple of times before that.

A. had been;have seen

B. have been;have seen

C. had been;had seen

D. have been;had seen

Step II Lead in 1.

Ask the Ss to identify the picture in the pre-reading part. (skullcap) 2.

Ask Ss to assume what Peking man might have done and use thousands of years ago. 3.

Then by showing the table following to show whether their assumptions are right or wrong.

Places of living Furniture Entertainment Food Clothing

Step III Reading

Modern people

Peking man

Accuracy 1. Play the tape once, and ask the Ss what they have learned about Zhoukoudian

Caves 2. Skimming (What is the text about? And three stages of the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue: An archeologist is showing a group of students from England around the Zhoukoudian Caves and telling them something bout the caves.) 3. Scanning (Ask them to write down the three ways in which the life of early people differs from modern ones. Ask them to work in pairs and discuss the questions. Finish Comprehending 2: Homes: caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold.

Tools:

scrapers, axe-heads, bone needles

Dress:

animal skins sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces

4. Careful reading Let the Ss read the passage again and show the three stages in the PPT after the students finish Comprehending 3: Stage 1:

Life in the cave Stage 2: What we can learn from a needle Stage 3: What we can learn from a necklace Step IV Post-reading Ask Ss to fill in the chart on the life and habits of Peking man on page 37 and compare it with the list they made in the pre-reading. What differences are there?

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

Internet and traveling Food A good variety of cooked food, which tastes delicious Clothing Clothes made form special material, such as cotton and wood And then clarify Ss’ difficult points in the text.

Step V Homework family get-together Natural food, such as nuts and fruits Accurate Clothes made form animal skins Accurate 1.1.What

do they live on? 2.Try to describe the enviroment at that time. 3.Discuss if you were one of them who do you want to be and why?