Using LanguageⅠPPT及专用教学设计内容

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors ----Reading Learning Aims：

1.

We can learn about some new words and phrases by reading the passage at least three times. identify

alternative

archaeology

archaeological

archaeologist

starvation

tentative

accuracy

△excavate

△excavation

interrupt

acute

assume

regardless

regardless of

mat

quilt

beast

at most

centimetre

sharpen

sharpener

cut up

△scrape

△scraper

ample

messy

primitive

△bead

botany

botanical

analysis

seashell

ripen

category

2.

We can get some information about the life of the earliest people in the Zhoukoudian caves by reading the passage. 3.

We can improve our reading speed by reading the passage in limited time. （限时阅读训练）

4.

We can grasp the general idea of the passage by skimming/reading fast. （主旨大意）

5.

We can get detailed information by scanning/reading the passage carefully and finishing the exercises.（细节理解）

6.

We can improve our ability to infer by finishing Exercise5.（推断）

7.

We can check whether we have understood the passage by finishing Post- reading----Summary（高考链接）.（语法填空检测）At the same time, we can consolidate what we have learnt.

8.

We can improve our cooperative ability by joining in group work

9.

We’ll learn to cherish our life by comparing their life of the Peking man and modern people.

Fast reading

Task1 Skimming---Read the text quickly and complete its main idea. The text is about a group of students from _______ paid a visit to the Zhoukoudian caves, from which they learned a lot about the ________ of the early people living there. Task2 Skimming---Match the three topics with what the archaeologist talked about. Topic 1 (Line 1 ---_____ )

What can we learn from a necklace? Topic 2 (Line ____---___)

Life in the cave. Topic 3 (Line ____---52)

What can we learn from a needle?

Careful reading

Read the text carefully and choose the best answer. 1. Where do the caves lie?

A. In the forest.

B. On the seaside.

C. At the foot of the hill.

D. Higher up the hill. 2. Evidence has showed that the earliest people in the caves used _____ to make clothes according to the conversation.

C. animal skins

D. cotton

A. leaves

B. tree skins3. The following things were used by early people to make clothes EXCEPT _____. A. sharpeners

B. needles

C. salt

D. knives 4. Which of the following shows us the earliest people and the modern people have something in common? 1

A. People hung animal skins to keep out the cold.

B. People never grew their own crops.

C. People use science.

D. People care about their appearance. 5. From the conversation we can infer that the earliest people in the caves were very ____.

B. happy

D. stupid and cruel

C. clever and hard-

Post- reading----Summary（高考链接）

A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist is showing them 1._________________. The archaeologists 2._______________ (excavate) here for many years.

After 3. ________(find) human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and other objects, they think it is reasonable 4. ________(assume) some of the earliest people lived in these caves, regardless 5. _______ the cold. They also discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves 6. _________ they made fires.

Some evidence suggests that our ancestors 7. __________(do) wear clothes made from animal skins. The archaeologist also shows the students a primitive necklace 8.__________________ (preserve) quite well. Indeed, as the botanical analysis has been 9. _____________(special) showing us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large lake. Perhaps there was trade between early peoples 10. __________they traveled to the seaside on their journeys.

Discussion----Mind map

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