Using LanguageⅠ第二课时教案

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 知识目标

1．Get students to learn the useful words and expressions in this unit. alternative，identify，starvation，archaeologist，regardless of，tentative，adapt，interrupt，at most，beast，bead，sharpener，ample，cut up，primitive，ripen，assume,

adapt to 2．Help students to learn about

life of

early people. 能力目标

1．Let students read the passage

to develop their reading ability.

2．Enable students to know that people what kind of live early people lived. 情感目标

1．Help them understand more about how challenging life can be for early people.

教学重点

Get students to realize the development and the difficulties of

human beings.. 教学难点

1．Develop students' reading ability. 2．Help students understand the 3 topics that the archaeologist talked about.

教学方法

reading ,discussing,and practising 教学过程

1.

Lead-in Show students a video and then answer the questions: 1.Who are they? 2.Where did they live? 3.Why did they go out the cave? 2.

Skim the passage

Give students 2 minutes；ask them to read the passage fast to fill in the blanks：

1.What is the writing style?

The reading is written in the form of q______and a_____. 2.The text is about a visit that a group of students from E_____paid to the Zhoukoudian caves,from which they learned a lot about the l_____of the early people living there. 3.There are three topics that the archaeologist talked about.

3.

Scanning and discussion Ask students to listen to the tape and discuss these questions. topic1:life in the cave 1.How did early people keep warm? 2.What did they use for doors?

3.What animals were their most dangerous enemies? topic 2:What we know from a needle 1.the description of the needle It is at most ___centimeters long and made of ____. 2.the conclusions from the needle Our evidence suggests that early people did wear _____made from____________. 3.the process of making clothes Early people ____animal skins and ____the pieces together. topic 3:what we learn from a necklace 1.What is the necklace made of? 2.How can they get seashells? 3.Why are they called hunters and gatherers? 4.

Further understanding

5.

Do a summary

A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit.1.

archaeologist is showing them round.The archaeologists 2.

(excavate) here for many years.After 3.

(find) human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and other objects, they think it is 4.

(reason) to assume some of the earliest people lived in these caves, regardless 5.

the cold.They discovered fireplaces in the centre of

the caves 6.

they made fires.Some evidence suggests that our ancestors did wear clothes 7.

(make) from animal skins.The archaeologist also shows the students a primitive necklace preserved quite well.Indeed, as the botanical analyses have 8.

(special) shown us, all the fields around here used 9.

(be) part of a large shallow lake.Perhaps there was trade between early peoples or they 10.

(travel) to the seaside on their journeys.

6.

homework 1.read the text again and find some useful structures. 2.imagine you are a student who has come to the Zhoukoudian caves,write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian cave.

Module 8

Unit5 Meeting your ancestors

A visit to the Zhoukoudian caves

授课人：张小彤

原阳县第四高级中学