Using LanguageⅠ第一课时评课稿

Teaching plan for 1st Reading, Unit 5, Senior Grade 2

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Teaching aims and demands: 1. Train the students’ reading ability.

2. Understand the text better and get the general knowledge of archaeology. 

Teaching key points: 1. Improve the students’ reading ability. 2. Understand the text better and get the general knowledge of archaeology. 

Teaching difficult points: How to help the students understand the text better 

Teaching method: 1．Fast reading is to find out the general idea of the text. 2．Question-and-answer activities are to help the students to understand the detailed information in the text. 3．Individual and pair work are intended to make every student active in class. 

Teaching aids: bb 

Teaching process: 1. Leading-in

Look at these questions, and try your best to answer them. 

What furniture(家具) is there at your home? 

What clothes are you wearing, man-made or natural?

Get the answers from the students. Possible answers: 

We have wooden furniture, tables, desks, sofa, chairs and so on. 

Man-made(natural is also ok)

What about the Peking man? Next, you are going to Meet your ancestors, and you are going to make a visit to Zhoukoudian caves. So you are going to study unit 5 Meeting your ancestors. In this unit, you will know something about Peking Man(北京人). 2. Before reading

Title-prediction

Look at the title, then answer: 

What is Zhoukoudian famous for?

Look at the title and 3 pictures on your textbook , then answer: 

What do you think the reading is about? 3. While-reading 1)

Skimming Find out the main idea. Choose the correct answer. 

Which doesn't appear in the text?

A. Life in the cave

B. What we can learn from a needle

C. What we can learn from a necklace

D. Food

Answer: D 2)

Scanning

Answer the following questions 

Where did

Peking Man live ? 

Could they keep warm? How do you know? 

Did they care about their appearance(外貌)? How do you know? Possible answers: 

In caves 

Yes. They discovered layers of ash. 

Yes. They discovered a necklace.

3)

Details-reading Read again, then fill in the blanks with the words below using correct forms to finish the following passage. Visit, remove, show, assume, scare, ripen, regardless, evidence, fire, sharpener, appearance, ample

A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist is ___1__ them around. Before the students ___2___ the caves, they asked the archaeologist some questions. From the archaeologist, the students got to know many interesting things that they didn’t know before. First, although there are only rocks and trees, the archaeologist thinks it its reasonable to ___3___ the earliest people lived in those caves ____4____ of the cold in winter from the ___5___ they have discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves. The earliest people made ___6___ to keep warm, cook the food and ____7___ wild beasts away. Third, they used big sharpened stones as ___8___ to cut up animals and remove the animals’

skin and used the small scrapers to

___9___ the fat and meat from the skin, and then they would rub an ___10____ amount of salt onto the skin to make it soft. They also cut it and sewed the pieces together using bone needles. Fourth, the early people cared about their

___11___ like we do by wearing the necklace made of animal bones, seashells and other things. They didn’t grow crops, but picked fruit when it ___12____ and hunted animals. So the early people are called hunters and gathers. Answers: 1. showing 2. visited 3. assume 4. regardless 5. evidence 6. fires 7. scare 8. sharpeners 9. remove 10. ample 11. appearance 12. ripened 4)

Analyze the difficult sentences 

You must be aware that it's here that we've found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of world. 

We have been excavating layers of ash almost 6 meters thick, which suggests that they might have kept the fire burning all winter. 4. After-reading

Free discussion:

Is it worth visiting Zhoukoudian? Why? 5. Homework 

Write a short introduction to Zhoukoudian Caves 

Preview the present continuous tense.

板书设计：

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

A Visit to the Zhoukoudian Caves

Life in the cave

(Part 1 ) What we can learn from a needle

(Part 2 ) What we can learn from a necklace

( Part 3)