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Module 8 unit5 Using language

Reading: The feast: 18,000 BC Teaching aims:

1. get students know about the wok divisions in primitive society. 2. improve students’ reading ability by scanning and skimming.

3. let students further learn language points in the passage . Important points:

Know about general idea and detailed information of the passage. Difficult points:

Work out the questions related to the passage. Teaching aids:

Blackboard and projector. Teaching methods:

Pair work and group work. Teaching procedure: Step 1. Lead-in: Who do you think do more housework in a family, the husband or the wife? What is the possible work division between them? Step 2.

Scanning 1.

Draw the main idea of each paragraph.

2.

Choose the best answer.

(1)

This text is mainly an imaginative story

about a family feast of ____.

A. a girl

B. a man

C. a girl of the earliest people

D. a modern girl (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

C. enjoy a feast

D. see Lala (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

C. scrape the fish

D. cut stones (5)

Lala’s guests came to ____.

A. dance

B. talk about an important thing

C. enjoy a feast

D. see Lala

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Step 3.

Careful-reading questions:

(1) In groups discuss whether they were men’s tasks or women’s tasks at that time . ______1

Making and repairing tools

2

Collecting nuts, fruit and water

3

Protecting the group from harm

4

Cutting down trees

5

Cutting up meat and fish for cooking

6

Preparing skins to make clothes

7

Hunting animals

8

Looking after children

(2) Fill in the blanks. Men’s tasks

Women’s tasks

1. 1. 2. Fishing 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. Preparing food 5. 5. (3) Discuss which adjectives best describe men’s tasks and women’s tasks.

caring

tough

protective

dangerous

safe

useful

co-operative

patient

individual

exhausting

skilful men’s tasks:1._______ 2. _________.3.__________

4.__________ 5. __________ 6. _________ women’s tasks:1._______ 2. _________.3.__________

4.__________ 5. _____________ Step 4. Consolidation 1.

Who works cooperatively and who does tasks alone? 2.

Which was the most dangerous work? 3.

Where does the danger come from?

Step 5. Summary Not having looked ahead ①_______ planned better, Lala felt very worried ②_______ the preparations for her feast. So she turned for home ③________ (quick) with her collection of nuts and fruit. When she was near home, a delicious smell arrested her progress and she

④_________ (become) dizzy with hunger. She saw her mother and the old children

⑤__________ (prepare) the deer and pig meat over the fire. Just then Dahu, her husband, as well as the best

toolmaker, came back with several ⑥_______ (fish). Later he began

⑦_______ (he) task: he sharpened his scrapers until they were sharp enough ⑧________ (cut) up the meat and scrape the fish. Soon, ⑨_______ first of the guests began to arrive. Lala hoped the feast was going to be just as ⑩___________ (wonder) as last year. Step 6. Language points 1.

be prepared to do sth.

be prepared for sth.

为……做好准备

她已准备好应付这一切。

She _________________ anything to happen.

我可不愿意在这儿受这种奇耻大辱。

_______________________ and listen to these outrageous insults. 2.

2. If only she had looked ahead and planned better!

要是她能为将来做更好的打算该多好啊！

1) if only 要是, 只要是, 往往引起虚拟语气，用感叹句。用过去完成时表示对过去的虚拟, 用一般过去时表示对现在的虚拟。

我要是能飞就好了！

2) look ahead 向前看, 做未来的打算

你是否想过五年后你要做些什么？

______________________to what you’ll be doing in five years’ time?

3.

relief

n. [U] (痛苦或忧虑的)减轻或解除

[U]

救济品

[C]

减轻痛苦的事物

这药可以稍微减轻你的痛苦。

This medicine will ___________________. 政府送救济品给在台风中失去家园的人们。

The government _____________________. who lost their homes in the typhoon.

to one’s relief

令…放心的是, 令…感到宽慰的是

Much to his relief, finally his lost son was found by the police. 见到你在这儿也就放心了。

________________ to find you here.

她把夹脚的鞋脱下时说: “可松快了！”

“_____________ !” she said, as she took her tight shoes off.

Step 6. Homework Try to write a short passage to describe the life of the primitive people.