Learning about Language教案范文

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

Reading

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言：

重点词汇和短语

archaeology, tentative, accuracy, excavate, interrupt, ornament, assume, regardless, sharpen, cut up, scrape, ample, primitive, preserve, bead, botany, botanical, analysis, specific, seashell, specifically 重点句子

I’m sorry to interrupt you, but how could they live here?

We have been excavating layers of ash almost six meters thick, which suggest that they might have kept the fire burning all winter. Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have been specifically showing us, all the fields around there used to be part of a large shallow lake. 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the Ss to tell the differences between modern people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their lives. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the Ss learn to tell the differences between modern people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their lives. Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点

Talk about Peking man in Zhoukoudian Caves. Teaching methods教学方法

Task-based Rreading and discussion Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方法

Step I Lead-in Q：Do you want to learn something about our ancestors?

Use some pictures (on page 37) to show the students what we are going to learn today. Tell them something about archaeologists and their work. Step II

Pre-reading

1.

Ask the Ss to identify the picture in the pre-reading part. (skullcap) 2.

Ask Ss to assume what Peking man might have done and use thousands of years ago. 3.

Learn something about Zhoukoudian Caves and the Peking man. Use some imagined pictures to show the life of Peking man. Step III Reading 1. Skimming: guide them to get the main idea by reading the title and para.1. (1)The text is about the visit to the _____. A. Shanding Caves B. Sanxingdui Tombs C. Zhoukoudian Caves D. Mawangdui Tombs (2).The group of students come from _____.

A. Germany

B. the USA

C. France

D. England 2. Scanning Let the Ss find out the three topics according to the pictures in the PPT. Topic 1:

Life in the cave

Line1--23 Topic 2: What we can learn from a needle

Line24--36 Topic 3: What we can learn from a necklace

the rest 3. Careful reading

(1)Topic1：Life in the cave (beginning-line23)

Read this part and answer the questions.

Q: Where did Peking Man live?

A:They lived in caves higher up the hill.

Q:How did they keep warm during the freezing winter?

A:They used fireplaces in the center of the cave.

They might have hung animal skins at the cave mouth.

Q:What wild animals were there?

A:There were tigers and bears. These were their most dangerous enemies.

(2)Topic2: needle (line24-line36) Go through the dialogue on page 38

Task1：

Describe the needle for us It is at most three centimeters long and made of bone. There is a hole in it. Task2：How did they make clothes from animal skin?

Pay attention to the connective words, such as first, second, then, after, finally

(3) Topic3 : necklace

Ask the students read this part. Girls read the words of the archaeologist and boys read students. Then answer some questions. Q: What’s the necklace made of ?

A:Some beads were made of animal bones but some were made of shells. Q:Why was the archaeologist sure that some beads were made of fish bones? A: As the botanical analyses have shown us, there used to be a large shallow lake. Q:What was the student’s puzzle?

A: reason 1

There was trade between early people

reason 2

They traveled to the seaside on their journeys. （4）Read the text again and write down the three ways in which the life of early people differs from modern ones.

Homes: caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold.

Tools:

scrapers, axe-heads, bone needles

Dress:

animal skins sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces Step Ⅳ

Summary：fill in the blanks

A group of students from England have come to the Zhoukoudian Cave for a visit.

archaeologist is showing them around. The archaeologists

(excavate) here for many years. After finding human and animal bones

___those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and ornaments，they think

reasonable to assume they lived in these caves，regardless of the cold. They discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves

____ they constructed fires. Some evidence suggests that our ancestors _______ (indeed) wear clothes

(make) from animal skins. The archaeologist also shows the students a primitive necklace

(preserve) quite well. Indeed，as the botanical analysis has been

(special) showing us，all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there was trade between early peoples ____

they traveled to the seaside on their journeys.

Step V Homework 1.

Go over the text. 2.

Write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Cave.