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Unit5 Meeting your ancestors Using language

Reading The Feast: 18,000BC Teaching goals

1. Target language：

Words and Phrases look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone, arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skillful, exhausting, Sentence patterns If only she had looked ahead and planned better! She could see her mother and aunts preparing the meat of deer and pig over the fire. Abruptly she sat down ,only to be scooped up by her laughing, shouting sister, Luna. 2. Ability goals Enable the Ss to describe the life of early people Train Ss reading skills-read for general and detailed information 二、Teaching important & difficult points Expressions and sentence patterns Enable Ss read to know more about the early people’s life and describe it. 三、Teaching methods Task-based method, Cooperative Teaching,Interactive teaching,Multimedia teaching

四、Teaching aids A computer，multimedia 五、Teaching procedures & ways

Step I Revision and Lead-in 1.Check the homework. Ask the Ss to recite some useful words and expressions. 2.lead-in Free talk Ask the Ss to turn to page 43 and look at the picture, then try to describe what are these early people are doing. And imagine what their life was like. Step II Reading

1.

Listeng. Play the tape for the Ss to listen. At the same time, the students are asked to draw the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1

Lala worried about the preparations for the feast and she hoped the feast could be as good as the one last year. Para2

Lala and her families made preparations for the feast. Para3

How did Dahu make tools. Para4

The description of Dahu. So,main idea of the whole text. This text is mainly an ______________ story about _____________of a girl of the earliest people

2.Fast reading.Choose the best answer (1）From the first paragraph, we can learn that the family groups lived on _____. A. fish

B. crops

C. hunting

D. farming （2）From the text we can infer that family groups _____

A. lived together

B. lived far away

C. lived in the same cave

D. lived separately （3）Lala’s guests came to ____. A. dance

B. see Lala

C. enjoy a

feast

D. talk about an important thing （4）Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers

to ______.

A. kill an enemy

B. use them as weapons

C. scrape the fish

D. cut stones 3.Careful reading. (1)Read the passage and find out what the possible work division was between men

and women in primitive societies and fill in the chart below.

Men’s tasks

Women’s tasks

1

1

2 Fishing

2

3

3

4

4 Preparing food

5

5

(2）Now look closely at the tasks before and discuss which adjectives best

describe each of them. Give your reasons caring

tough

protective

dangerous

safe

useful

co-operative

patient

individual

exhausting

skilful

Answers：Men’s tasks: patient (tool making), dangerous (hunting), some individual (tool making and repairing) and some co-operative (hunting), skilful (tool making), protective (of group)

Women’s tasks: co-operative (cooking), caring (providing food),

patient (collecting food), skilful (cooking), individual (collecting nuts and fruit)

Step III Post Reading 1.

In groups discuss what the possible work division was between men and women

at present.Are they different from those at that time.Why.At the end of the discussion,presentations are needed. Mens’ tasks: ... Women’s tasks: ... Step Ⅴ Homework Practice using two or more adjectives to describe the Saxingdui Ruins objects on page44.