Using LanguageⅠ教案教学设计

Book8 unit5 Meeting your ancestors Using Language---The feast: 18,000 BC Teaching aims 1.Get students know about the wok divisions in primitive society. 2.Improve students’ reading ability by skimming and scanning. 3. Let students express their views about the work divisions in modern society. Important points Know about general idea and detailed information of the passage. Difficult points Work out the questions related to the passage. Teaching aids

Blackboard and projector. Teaching methods Pair work and group work. Teaching Procedures Step1: Go over some new words in this part. Step 2: Fast-reading

In pairs work out which jobs Dahu did and which Lala did. Step 3:Careful-reading

(1) In groups discuss whether they were men’s tasks or women’s tasks at that time. ______1

Making and repairing tools

2

Collecting nuts, fruit and water

3

Protecting the group from harm

4

Cutting down trees

5

Cutting up meat and fish for cooking

6

Preparing skins to make clothes

7

Hunting animals

8

Looking after children

(2) Discuss which adjectives best describe men’s tasks and women’s tasks.

caring

tough

protective

dangerous

safe

useful co-operative

patient

individual

exhausting

skilful men’s tasks: women’s tasks: (3) Choose the best answers. 1.This text is mainly an imaginative story about a family feast of ____. 2. From the first paragraph, we can learn that the family groups lived on_____.

3. Lala’s guests came to ____.

4. Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to ______. 5. From the text we can infer that family groups _____. Step 3: Summary 1._______(worry) about the preparations for her feast, Lala left for home 2._____ her collection of fruits. Having heard wolves 3._______(howl), she quickened her pace 4.________(fear) that there might be beasts. When she had almost reached home the smell of cooking meat 5._____(fill) the air 6.____________(surround) her. She saw her mother 7._________(prepare) the meat 8.___ the fire. Later Dahu came 9.________(carry) fish and wood. After 10._______(pull) out some tools, he began his task. All goes well!

Step4: Discussion Some people say: “It is women that should stay at home and take care of the family.” Do you agree or not? Please give your reasons. The expressions may help you.