Using LanguageⅠ教学设计第二课时

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Using language Teaching goals:

1. Target language：

重点词汇和短语: look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone, arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skillful, exhausting 2. Ability goals Enable the Ss to describe the life of early people. Task-based method: reading and discussion Content

Step I Revision and Lead-in 1．Check the homework. 2．Ask the Ss to recite some useful words and expressions. Step II Lead-in Ask the Ss to turn to page 43 and look at the picture, then try to describe what are these early people are doing. And imagine what their life was like. Step III Language Points 1.Play the tape for the Ss to listen. At the same time, the students are asked to draw the main idea of each paragraph. Para 1. Lala worried about the preparations for the feast and she hoped the feast could be as good as the one last year. Para 2. Lala and her families made preparations for the feast. Para 3. The description of Dahu. Para 4. How did Dahu make tools. 1

2.

Ask the students to choose the best answer. 1.

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

A. a girl

B. a man D. a modern girl

C. a girl of the earliest people 2. From the first paragraph, we can learn that the family groups lived on _____.

A. fish

B. crops

C. hunting

D. farming 3. Lala’s guests came to ____.

A. dance

B. talk about an important thing D. see Lala

C. enjoy a feast 4. Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to ______.

A. kill an enemy

B. use them as weapons C. scrape the fish

D. cut stones

5. From the text we can infer that family groups _____.

A. lived together

B. lived far away D. lived separately

C. lived in the same cave

3.

Answer the following questions after reading the text:

(1). Who works cooperatively and who does tasks alone? (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) (2). Who does the most dangerous tasks?( men do the most dangerous tasks) (3). Where does the danger come from? ( The danger comes from the wild animals) Step IV Post Reading 1. In groups discuss what the possible work division was between men and women at that time. 2

Mens’ tasks: making tools, fishing, making fire, protecting the family form wild animals, cutting up meat. Women’s tasks: collecting nuts and fruits, making and sewing clothes, looking after baby, preparing food, doing housework. 2. Then ask them to look at the above item and try to use adjective best describe each of them. Adjectives best describe the women: caring, affectionate, safe, co-operative Step Ⅴ Homework Practice using two or more adjectives to describe the Saxingdui Ruins objects on page 44. 3