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Book8 Unit5

Meeting Your Ancestors The Fourth Period

Using Language(II) Reading

The Feast: 18,000 BC (by Chen Xu) 

Teaching objectives 1. Target language：

Important words: look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone, arrowhead, axe, division, skillful. important sentences: 1) If only she had looked ahead and planned better!

If only it could be just like last year! 2)She had almost reached her destination when a delicious smell arrested her

progress and she stopped. 3)Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing, shouting sister,

Luna. 4)He had a large, square face, with strongly pronounced eyebrows and cheekbones.

2. Ability objectives: 1) Train students’

fast reading by extensive reading. 2) Develop students’

ability to guess a word’ s meaning according to the context.

3. Emotion objectives: 1) Enable students to learn more about Peking Man, trying to arouse their interest in our ancestors’ life and archaeology. 2) Get students to appreciate the beautiful parts of the text to taste the harmonious life

of our ancestors and the beauty of the English language.

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Teaching important & difficult points: 1) Enable students to know more about the early people’s life ,especially the their

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work division between men and women. 2) Develop students’

ability to guess a word’ s meaning according to the context.

3) Get students to appreciate the beautiful parts of the text to taste the harmonious life of our ancestors and the beauty of the English language. 

Teaching methods Task-based method, reading and discussion 

Teaching aids Multimedia facilities, blackboard

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Teaching procedures & ways Step I Revision and Lead-in 1 Describe the life of the Peking Man mentioned in the reading text. 2 Ask the Ss to imagine Peking Man’s feasts. 3Get students to read the new words and expressions again. Step II Fast reading 1 Ask the Ss to turn to Page 43 . Listen to the tape to get a general impression of

the text. At the same time, the students are asked to match the main idea with each paragraph. 2 Ask the Ss to Scan the text and answer questions. 1) Who are especially mentioned in the text? 2) Why did they hold the feast? 3) What kind of food did Lala’s family prepare for the feast? 3 Ask the Ss to have a discussion about men’s tasks or women’s task division.

1)Thinking: Did men and women do the same jobs at that time?

Whose jobs were these,

Dahu’s or Lala’s?

A catch fish, repair stone tools, make scrapers and axe-heads 2)In groups discuss whether they were men’s tasks or women’s tasks at that time .

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Making and repairing tools

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Looking after children •

Fishing 2

B collect fruit and nuts, prepare food

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Hunting animals •

Collecting nuts, fruit and melons •

Preparing food •

Protecting the group from harm •

Cutting down trees •

Cutting up the meat and fish •

Making clothes Conclusion: Men and women had clearly divided tasks and the tasks were shared fairly .

Step III Language study Para1

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If only she had looked ahead and planned better this year. 

If only the feast could be

just like last year!

If only 意为：要是…..就好了，句子要用虚拟语气

若：

…….

(verb form)谓语动词

1.与将来事实相反→could/would +do

2.与现在事实相反→did/were

3.与过去事实相反→had done

Practice：If only he _______

(be) here now. If only I _____________ (not tell) him the bad news.

高考链接：Look at the trouble I am in!

If only I _____________ (follow)your advice. 比较：only if “只要”

I will come only if you promise not to invite Mary. ？______ you eat the correct foods will you be able to keep fit and stay healthy. Para2

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Having heard wolves howling in the forest, Lala accelerated her walk up the path to the caves fearing that there might be wild beasts lying in wait for her.

lie in wait for 埋伏以待；伏击

The robbers were lying in wait for the rich traveler.

The only way to catch our chairman is to lie in wait for him as he leaves the meeting.

Para2

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She had almost reached her destination when a delicious smell arrested her progress and she stopped.

Say: What does the word “arrest” mean in each sentence: 1 The police arrested the man for carrying a gun.

2 The strange-looking flowers arrested Susan’s attention.

3 Once I’m determined to do something, nothing can

arrest my progressing steps. Conclusion: arrest : vt 1 逮捕2 吸引3 阻止、中止

So, this arrest has the third meaning “stop”. Para2 

Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing, shouting sister, Luna.

scoop ---抢先报道的新闻;独家新闻

基本义：勺子、铲子

用勺儿舀；用铲儿铲

eg,

1 She scooped ice cream into their bowls. 2 He quickly scooped the money up from the desk. 3 She scooped the child up in her arms. 4 All the newspapers really want to do is scoop other papers. Thinking: This scoop has similar meaning to Sentence _______.

Para3 

He had a large, square face, with strongly pronounced eyebrows and cheekbones.

eg,

He spoke with a pronounced Sichuan accent, so we all thought he came from Sichuan.

pronounced

adj. ---obvious/noticeable

pronounce

v. 发音、读; 宣布、宣称; 断言

Step IV Appreciation

1 Which part of the text do you like best? Read it out or Put it into Chinese or Act it out with your partners or Draw it on paper.

2 Teacher’s favorite: 1) Lala smiled and handed some stone scrapers Over to Dahu, who smiled and went outside the cave to begin his task. 2) Now and then Dahu would stop, look at it and try it against his hand before continuing 4

his task. He stopped when he felt the scrapers were sharp enough to cut up the meat and scrape the fish.

3 Enjoy students’ works. 4 Enjoy some imaginative pictures about our ancestors’ life.

Step Ⅴ Homework 1 Read the text again and turn to the teacher if necessary. 2 If you are a journalist and want to interview Dahu, what questions do you want

to ask? And what will Dahu say? Make a dialogue with your partner.

Blackboard design: Book5

Unit5 The Feast: 18,000BC 1 if only 2 arrest 3 scoop 4 pronounce

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