Using LanguageⅡ教学评价实录

The Fourth Period Using language

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skilful, exhausting b. 重点句型

If only she had looked ahead and planned better! She could see her mother and aunts preparing the meat of deer and pig over the five. 2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to describe the life of early people. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to describe early people’s life.

Teaching important & difficult points 教学重难点

Enable the students to know more about the early people’s life and describe it.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Task-based teaching method, reading and discussion. Teaching aids 教具准备

A recorder, a projector and a computer. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ Revision Check the homework. Ask the students to recite some useful words and expressions.

Step Ⅱ Lead-in

T: In the previous period, we learned something about the life of Peking man. Peking Man life is part of our ancient ancestors. What about the general ancestors’ life? Now turn to page 43 and look at the pictures and think what these early people are doing? S1: Some are preparing food. S2: One is making tools by sharpened stone tools and scraper. T: Good. From the picture, we can learn something about early people’s life. Now read the passage and find out what the life was like.

Step Ⅲ Reading Play the tape for the students to listen. At the same time, the students are asked to find the answers to the following questions. 1. Which jobs did Dahu do? 2. Which jobs did Lala do? After listening to the tape, the students discuss the above questions in groups and then try to find the answers to the above questions.

Sample answers: 1. To make tools, to catch fish, to cut up the meat, to scrape the fish, to welcome the guests.

2. To collect nuts and fruit, to prepare the meat over the fire.

Draw the main idea of each paragraph: Para 1. Lala worried about the preparations for the feast and she hoped the feast could be as good as the one last year. Para 2. Lala and her families made preparations for the feast. Para 3. the description of Dahu. Para 4. how did Dahu make tools. Step Ⅳ Post-reading T: From the reading passage, we can see that long ago men and women had quite separate responsibilities. In groups discuss the following questions. After a few minutes, check the answers.

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 5. From the text we can infer that family

groups _____.

A. lived together

B. lived far away

C. lived in the same cave

D. lived separately Answer the following questions after reading the text. 1.Who works cooperatively and who does tasks alone?

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. 2. Who does the most dangerous tasks?

Men do the most dangerous tasks. 3. Where does the danger come from? The danger comes from the wild animals. 1 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 Women’s tasks 1 1 2 Fishing 2 3 3 4 4 Preparing food 5 5

2 In pairs work out which jobs Dahu did and which Lala did.

Name Jobs Dahua catch fish, repair stone, make scrapers and axe-heads Lala collect fruit and nuts, prepare food T: Which will you choose? If there are more adjectives, what will be the order? Now look at the following chart.

Show the following.

1

2

3 4 5 6

Size

Shape Color Origin Material

Use

A Short

SlimBlackBritish

Girl

A Small

Blue Chinese

Serving Dish

For example:

a nice long new black British plastic pen. some beautiful little red flowers. Step V Homework

1. Practice using two or more adjectives to describe the Sanxingdui Ruins objects on page 44. 2. Try to write a short passage to describe the life of the primitive people.