Using LanguageⅠ优质公开课教案

M8U5Meeting Your Ancestors (Using Language I) I．Teaching aims: 1. Knowledge aims

1). Master the key words:

look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone, arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skillful, exhausting 2) . Master the useful sentence patterns:

1) If only she had looked ahead and planned better! 2) She could see her mother and aunts preparing the meat of deer and pig over the fire. 2. Ability aims

1). Enable the Ss to describe the life of early people 2). Develop students reading ability 3. Emotional aims Enable the students to realize the development and the difficulties

of human beings. II. Teaching important point：

Get the students master the usages of the key words and use them

freely and flexibly. III. Teaching difficult point: How to get students to describe the early freely

IV. Teaching procedures Step I

Lead-in Show students some pictures of the primitive people in our country and ask them the following questions: Are you curious about early people life, such as what did they eat? & what tools did they use? Now I will show you a short video " They are history".

Today we will learn something about primitive people. Step II. Pre-reading The word preview detection Step III. Fast-reading Task I. Read the text quickly and finish the following questions：

This text is mainly an imaginative story about a family ______of a girl of the earliest people. Task II.

Match the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1

Para2

Para3 Para4 A.

Lala worried about the preparations for the feast and she hoped the feast could be as good as the one last year. B.

the description of Dahu. C.

how did Dahu make tools. D. Lala and her families made preparations for the feast Step IV. Detailed-reading

Task I. 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. Task II.

From the reading passage, we can see that long ago men and women had quite separate responsibilities. In groups discuss what the possible work division was between men and women at that time and fill in the chart. Men’s tasks

1 2 Fishing 3 4 5

Step V. Post-reading: fill in the blanks according to the text.

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 Women’s tasks

1 2 3 4 Preparing food 5

____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.