Using LanguageⅡ教学内容

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

The 5th Using language

1 Ability goals 1.Learn the life style of Beijing people. 2.Learn some skills of describing an imaginary story. 3.Learn some important language points. 2 learning ability goals

Help the students learn how to describe the life of early people

3 Teaching important & difficult points

Enable the students to know more and describe the life of early people

4 Teaching methods

Listening, reading and discussion

Step 1 reading

1.What

job did

Lala often do ? Collected fruit and nuts,prepared food. 2.Why did Lala accelate her walk?

Because she was afraid that animals would attack her. 3.What was Lala’s attitude towards her marriage? She was very satisfied with her marriage. Step 2 post-reading

Ask the students to discuss what the possible work division was between men and women at that time

仔细阅读“The feast：18000 BC”，根据课文内容选择正确答案。

1．Lala had collected some nuts and fruit for________．

A．her husband

B．her sister C．a feast

D．her family 2．At that time, people made it a rule to________．

A．separate and then gather together again as they followed the animal herds across the grassland B．choose someone as his future wife or her future husband

C．invite their friends and neighbours to have a dinner with them D．to live in the cave to prevent themselves from being attacked by wild animals 3．The underlined word in the sentence “Lala accelerated her walk up the path to the cave fearing that there might be wild animals”

means“________”．

A. stopped

B. slowed down C. sped up

D. hesitated 4. From the passage we can infer that man living in the 18，000 BC always________．

A. made and repaired tools, fished and hunted animals

B. cut down trees C. choose women as their wives D. brought fish home for dinner 5．Which of the following can be used to describe Lala? A．Impatient. B．Caring, patient, skillful, affectionate and cooperative. C．Dangerous. D．Unskillful. Step 3 explanation

Please 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.

Read the text again and fill in the blanks.

Men's tasks 1.Making and __________ tools 2.______________ 3.Cutting down____________ 4.____________ animals 5.Protecting ____________ Women's tasks 1.Collecting nuts,_________ and water 2.Cutting up______________ for cooking

3.Preparing ____________ 4.Preparing __________ 5.Looking after_____________ Language points 1.If only it could be just like last year. 要是能像去年那样就好了。

if only “要是……就好了”

If only I could play tennis as well as Li Na . 我要是网球能像李娜那样好就好了。

（1）若表示与将来事实相反的情况，句中的谓语动词用would/could+do。

(2) 若表示与现在事实相反的情况，句中的谓语动词则用动词的过去式。

（3）若表示与过去事实相反的情况，句中的谓语动词则用had done。

【即学即练】

1.要是妈妈现在和我在一起就好了！

2.要是他能给我回信就好了！

3.你要是昨天来帮我们就好了！

If only my mother were here with me.

If only he would reply to my letter！

If only you had come to help us yesterday. Language points only if 只有（在……的条件下）

Only if you are aware of the importance of English

can you learn it well. 只有当你意识到英语的重要性时，你才能把英语学好。

2.Having heard wolves howling in the forest ,Lala

accelerated her walk up the path to the caves,fearing

that there might be wild beasts lying in wait for her. 听见狼群在森林里吼叫，拉拉加快了回洞穴的步伐，担心会有野兽在埋伏等待她。

(1)having done 是V-ing形式的完成时态，强调在主句的谓语动词之前已发生，已完成的动作。

Having finished his work,he went to the cinema with Mary.干完活之后，他和玛丽一起去看电影。

幻灯片24 3.If only she had looked ahead and planned better this year! 她今年要是早有预见，计划得更好就好了。

It is better to look ahead and get prepared than to look back and regret. ____________________,也不要回顾过去来懊悔。

宁可展望未来做好准备

【拓展】

look ahead 向前看；为将来打算

look after 照顾，照料

look up 仰视，查阅

look up to sb. 尊敬某人

4.All the objects are from the same excavation site in Sanxingdui and date back to between 3,000and 5,000 years ago. date back to 追溯到；上溯到

date back to＝date from 因追溯是从现在算起指向过去，所以这个短语常用一般现在时，也没有被动语态。

The custom dates back hundreds of years ago when people wore swords. 这一习俗可追溯到几百年前人们佩剑的时候。

【即学即练】

dates back to

(1)This custom ________________ the 16th century. 这风俗起源于16世纪。

(2)This is an old building _________________ the 16th century. 这是一栋追溯至16世纪的古老建筑物。

dating back to

Step 4 post reading 一、fill the blanks with proper preps 1. Generally speaking, preparations ___ the Beijing Olympics are smoothly marching forward in accordance with plans. 2. Twenty years ago people looked _______ and thought the problem would be solved by now, but that clearly hasn’t happened. 3. Hunting spiders run after insects or lie __ wait for them. 4. She scooped __ a handful of snow and pressed it hard to make a ball. 5. He banged his head ______ the wall. 6. I smiled __ myself and stopped working so that I could better enjoy listening to the noise. 7. I became dizzy ____ all the do’s and the don’ts, and the how’s and the why’s.

8. We have asked the Conrads to come ___ dinner on Friday evening.

二、reading comprehension

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 and

fruits.

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 ______. Later he began his task: he _________ his scrapers until

they were sharp enough to _______ the meat and to

scrape the fish. Soon, the first of the guests began to

arrive. Lala hoped it was going to be just as _________ as last year.

Step 5:Homework Finish the reading exercises. Try to write a short passage to describe

the life of the primitive people.