Using LanguageⅠ教学活动设计方案

人教选修8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

using language 教学设计

Teaching aims：

1. new words and expressions

division interrupt

applaud

accelerate

arrest

fed up with look ahead

date back to...

2.Train Ss’ extensive reading ability

Teaching contents: Speaking and Reading Task Teaching Important Points: 1) Train Ss’ fast reading ability

2)Train Ss’ speaking ability of talking about tours and express suggestions；

assumption, Teaching Difficult Points:How to help improve Ss’s fast reading ability and speaking ability。

Teaching methods: 1)group discussion and observing 2)Question-and-answer activity teaching method Teaching aids: a multi-functional computer

Teaching Aids: 1)the multimedia

2)the blackboard 3) a tape recorder

Teaching Procedures: Step one. Reading and Discussion

Read the passage and find out what the possible work division was between men and women in primitive societies and fill in the chart below. Men’s tasks

1. 2. Fishing 3. 4. Women’s tasks

1. 2. 3. 4. Preparing food

5. 5.

Suggested answers:

Men’s tasks

1. Making and

repairing tools 2. Fishing 3. Cutting down trees 4. Hunting animals 5. Protecting the group from harm Women’s tasks

1. Collecting nuts, fruit and water 2. Cutting up meat and fish for cooking 3. Preparing skins to make clothes 4. Preparing food 5. Looking after children

Step two: Fast reading Read the text and find the answers to the following 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?

Suggested answers:

1. to make tools, catch fish, cut up meat, scraper the fish and welcome 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

Step three：Discussion Now look closely at the tasks before and discuss which adjectives best describe each of them. Give you reasons. Men’s tasks: patient (tool making), dangerous (hunting), some individual (tool making and repairing) and some co-operative (hunting), skilful (tool making), protective (of group) Women’s tasks: affectionate (to group),

co-operative (cooking), caring (providing food),

patient (collecting food), skilful (cooking), individual (collecting nuts and fruit)

Step four：Language Points: 1 applaud vt. 鼓掌，称赞，赞成

applause n. 鼓掌欢迎，欢呼

1). Everyone applauded when the play ended. 演出结束时，大家都热烈鼓掌。

2). I applaud your decision. 我赞成你的决定。

2 accelerate a. to increase the speed of 加速, 促进加快…...的速度

The new car has good acceleration. 这部新车加速效能良好。

b. to cause to happen earlier (正式) 催促

He decided to accelerate his courses. 他决定加快他的课程进度。

3 arrest vt. 逮捕，拘留，吸引(注意)

n.[c]逮捕

1). The criminal was arrested yesterday. 罪犯昨天被捕了。

2). What she did arrested my attention. 她所做的吸引了我的注意力。

【拓展】

be arrested for sth. 因某事而被捕

arrest one’ s attention吸引某人的注意 under arrest被捕；被拘留

4. relief n.减轻，解除

I felt great relief when I heard I had passed the examination. 听说我已经通过了考试，感到轻松多了。

The drug gives some relief from pain.这种药可以减轻一些痛苦。

To my great relief, I wasn’t late. 我最庆幸的是没有迟到。

【拓展】

bring /seek/find/give/feel relief 带来/寻求/得到/予以/感到解脱

relief road 备用车道

relief map 地形图

relieve v. relieve one’s feelings 发泄感情

5.preserve v.保护、维持、保存

You can preserve meat or fish in salt. 你可以用盐保存肉或鱼。

It is one of the duties of the police to preserve public order. 警察的职责之一是维持公共秩序。

Policemen preserve order in the streets. 警察维持着街道的秩序。

The vase has been preserved intact.这个花瓶保存得完好无损。

【拓展】

preservable adj.可保存的

preservation n.保存

preserver n.保护者，保存者

6.significance n.意义，重要性。

无关紧要的事情

a matter of little significance 重大的演讲

a speech of great significance

含义深刻的一瞥

a look of deep significance

这是具有重要意义的一件事情。

It is a matter of great significance . 【拓展】

significant adj.有特殊意义的，重大的

a significant speech

意味深长的讲话

significantly adv.有意义地，重要地

7. somehow

adv. 以某种方式，以某种方法；莫明其妙地；不知怎么地

他不知道怎么竟迷了路。

He somehow got lost. Somehow I don’t like this way.不知怎么地，我不喜欢这种方式。

We must get there before ten somehow.我们必须设法在10点以前赶到哪里。

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拓展】somehow or other 不知是什么原因，由于某种原因，以某种方式

Somewhat

adv.有几分，略，稍

I was somewhat surprised. 我有点惊讶。

8. fed up with 受够了，厌烦

1). I’ m fed up with waiting for her to telephone. 我等她的电话都等得不耐烦了。

2). What’ s the matter? You look pretty fed up. 怎麽啦？你显得那麽不高兴。

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拓展】

feed短语：

feed sb/sth on sth给（人或动物）食物；喂；饲养

feed on（动物）以……为主食

feed sth to sb/sth 给（人或动物）某物作为食物

1). Several children were feeding bread to the ducks. 2). What do you feed your dog on?

9. date back to... = date from... 追溯到……，从……时候开始就有了

The church dates back to the 13th century. 这座教堂从十三世纪开始就有了。

1). The custom dates back

hundreds of years. 2). Our friendship dates back to the late 70s.

10. If only it could be just like last year.要是能像去年那样就好了! If only 但愿......; 要是……就好了。其后一般用虚拟语气。

If only she had looked ahead and planned better. If only he had come．

11.多个形容词顺序巧记：

一座漂亮的旧石桥a fine old strong bridge 一些酸绿的食用苹果some sour green eating apples 口诀顺序：冠、代、数、形（形状、性质）、大（大小、长短）、新（新旧）、色（颜色）、国（国家、产地）、材（材料、用途）、名（名词）

Step five: Writing task Look at the pictures, then in pairs discuss what these objects were possibly used for? And then write a description for the guide book of the Sanxingdui Ruins. You should include: 1)

the name of the site where the four objects were found and their possible dates. 2)

A description each including appearance , shape and a guess about the material

it was made of 3)

What each might be used for? 4)

What we can learn from these objects about the people who lived then

Sample writing:

The archaeological site of Sanxingdui was discovered in 1922 and its finds dated back to between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago. The most important finds are the bronzes, and we have pictures of four of them for you here. 1.Special bronze tree

It is 395 cm high with some branches on the tree. There are three kinds of fruit on each branch. One of the fruit is a peach. The tree may have had a religious meaing and is connected with the sky and the earth. 2.Bronze mask

This is a man face mask with two eyes, two ears and hair. It fits over an adult face. You can see the teeth, and they look as if the man was smiling. The eyebrows grow into the hair. The nose is very flat. This mask may represented a god so that the person who wore it would have acted the role of the god.

3.Bronze bird This is a very realistic and lively bronze statue of a bird .Its wing is not realistic but shows some feathers pointing to the sky. It represented the idea that all animals have spirits and birds were especially important. It may have been used for religious purpose. 4.Clay pot

Step Six: Homework 1)Using two or more adjectives to describe the Saxingdui Ruins objects on page44. 2)

Review what we have learned in this lesson.