Using LanguageⅡ主要内容及教案内容

Unit5 Meeting Your Ancestors Using language II (reading) The Feast: 18,000BC

人教版高中英语选修8 渭南市富平县美原中学 田花彬

Teaching aims: 1. to develop students’ reading ability

2. to practice different reading skills. Emotional aims: make students learn the benefit of cooperation Important teaching points: enable students make use of different reading skills to finish reading the passage. Difficult teaching aims: how to help students master different reading skill to

understand the reading passage. Teaching methods: inductive and deductive methods, group work, discussion Teaching preparation: computer projector

Step1 Lead in

Show pictures to students and ask them the following questions, which lead to the topic, The Feast in 18’000

①. What does the picture remind you of ? ②.What will people do here? ③.Can you guess what would be eaten on the feast in 18’000BC?

Step2 Reading

1.Skim the passage and find out the answers to the following questions. ①.What’s the relationship between Dahu and Lala?

②. What kind of food did Lala’s family prepare for the feast?

③. What jobs did Dahu do?

④.What jobs did Lala do?

Suggested answers:

①. Husband and wife. ②. Nuts, fruit, fish, the deer and pig meat.

③. Dahu:catch_fish, repair stonetools, make scrapers and axe-heads. ④. Lala: collect fruit and nuts, prepare food.

2.Scan the passage again and decide whether the statements are true or false. ①.Lala’s family groups usually lived together. ②.Dahu was good at making tools. ③.The family groups lived on hunting . ④.Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to kill an enemy.

Suggested answers: F T T F

3.Read the passage again and try to figure out the work divisions between men and women.

Men’s tasks

1

and

tools 2 Fishing 3

trees 4

animals 5 Protecting the group from harm Women’s tasks

1

nuts,

fruits and water 2

meat

and fish for cooking 3 Preparing

to

make clothes 4

food 5

children

Suggested answers: making, repairing, cutting down, hunting, collecting, skins, prepairing, looking after.

Step3. Discussion What differences between men’s and women’s responsibilities in 18’000 BC?

Suggested answers:

men’s task: more dangerous, require strength. Women’s task: more careful.

Step4.Group work

In groups discuss whether they were men’s tasks or women’s tasks

at that time. ①Making and repairing tools ②Collecting nuts, fruit and water

③Protecting the group from harm

④Cutting down trees

⑤Cutting up meat and fish for cooking ⑥Preparing skins to make clothes ⑦Hunting animals ⑧Looking after children

Suggested answers: M W M M W M W W Cooperation makes better life

Step5. Retelling

Fill in the blanks with proper words according to the passage.

Not having _____and planned better, Lala felt very worried about the preparations for her feast. So she turned for home quickly with her ____ of nuts,

melons and other fruit.

When she was near home, a delicious smell ___ her progress and she became dizzy with hunger. She saw her mother and aunts ___the deer and pig meat over the fire. Just then Dahu, her ____ , as well as the best ____ , came back with several ____ .

Soon, the first of the guests began to arrive. Lala hoped it was going to be just as wonderful as last year! Suggested answers: Looked ahead, collection, arrested, preparing, husband, toolmaker, fish.

Step6 Homework

Find more information on the internet about the life of the primitive people.

Step7 Blackboard Design：

Unit5 Meeting Your Ancestors (Using language II)

Step1 Lead in

BC-before Christ Step2 Reading Step3. Discussion

Step4.Group work

Step5. Retelling

Step6 Homework 教学反思：

这节课是using language 部分的阅读，主要目的在于培养学生的阅读能力，让学生能够运用不同的阅读技巧来完成文章的阅读。

总的来说，这节课从课堂进行来看，效果不错，学生能够积极参与到所设计的各种阅读活动中，并对文章能够深层次地进行讨论，表达自己的看法。学生能够按着所设计的教学思路自己总结出教学情感目标：即合作的重要性，达到了预期的目的。

整堂课，教学进行顺利，学生参与度高，

所设计的活动难度适中，情感目标明确，

调动了学生的主观能动性。

存在问题：应该在课前板书出这节课的教学环节，

这样会更有利

于促进学生对知识有整体性地认识。