Using LanguageⅡ教案3

Book 8

Unit 5

Using

language The

feast 一、教学目标

1.重点词汇和短语

look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, arrowhead, axe, division, affection,

patient, skilful, exhausting 2. 重点句型

If only she had looked ahead and planned better! 3..能力目标

Enable the students to describe the life of early people. 二、教学重难点

Enable the students to know more about the early people’s life and describe it. 三、教学方法

Task-based teaching method, reading and discussion. 四、教学过程

StepⅠ

Lead-in

T: We have learned something about the life of Peking man. Peking Man life is part of our ancient ancestors. What about the general ancestors’ life? Now look at the pictures on page 43 and think what these early people are doing? S1: Some are preparing food.

S2: One is making tools by sharpened stone tools and scraper. T: Good. From the picture, we can learn something about early people’s life. Now read the passage and find out what the life was like. StepⅡ

Reading Listen to the tape and discuss the following questions in groups and then try to find the answers to the questions. 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? Sample answers: 1. To make tools, to catch fish, to cut up the meat, to scrape the fish, to welcome the guests. 2. To collect nuts and fruit, to prepare the meat over the fire.

3. Both men and women work cooperatively. For example, Lala’s mother and aunts were preparing the meat of deer and pig over the fire. Men do tasks alone. 4. Men do the most dangerous tasks. 5. The danger comes from the wild animals. StepⅢ

Post-reading T: From the passage, we can see that long ago men and women had quite

separate responsibilities. In groups discuss what the possible work division was between men and women at that time. Sample answers:

Men’s tasks: making tools, fishing, making fire, protecting the family from wild animals, cutting up meat. Women’s tasks: collecting nuts and fruit, making and sewing clothes, looking after baby, preparing food, doing housework. T: OK. So which adjectives best describe each of them. Give your reasons. Sample answers:

adjectives best describe the women: caring, affectionate, safe, co-operative adjectives best describe the men: protective, dangerous, patient, individual, exhausting S1: The fact that when Lala sat down abruptly, she was scooped up by her sister shows women were caring. Women were safe because they usually stayed inside the caves preparing food over the fire.

S2: When men went out fishing and hunting, women stayed inside preparing food. So they were both co-operative.

S3: When Dahu went back with fish over his shoulder, and took the stone scrapers from Lala, he smiled and went outside the cave. From Dahu’s behavior, we can infer men were affectionate.

S4: Dahu “carried”, “smiled”, “looked carefully”, “went to a corner”, “pulled out more tools”, “chose one large stone”, “began to hit...”.

From these, we can see men were patient, and often did individual work. They did so many things and their work was dangerous and exhausting.

T: Good work.

Now let’s do the exercises . Step IV

Key words and useful expressions

Step V

Homework