Using LanguageⅠ教学目标

B8 U5 Meeting your ancestors —Using language Teaching goal 1.

Target language a. Key words

look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skilful, exhausting b. Key sentences 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 five. 2. Ability goals

Enable the students to describe the life of early people. Enable the students to know something about the work division of early families. 3. Learning ability goals

Help the students learn how to describe early people’s life.

Help the students master the reading skills. 4.Teaching important & difficult points

Enable the students to know more about the early people’s life and describe it.

5.Teaching methods

Task-based teaching method, reading and discussion. 6.Teaching aids

A recorder, a projector and a computer. 7.Teaching procedures & ways

Step Ⅰ Revision Check the homework. Ask the students to recite some useful words and expressions. significance significant somehow systematic spit delete scratch academy radioactive division accelerate arrest dizzy skilful punctuation fed up with look ahead date back to...

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Step Ⅱ Lead-in

T: In the previous period, we learned something about the life of Peking man. Peking Man life is part of our ancient ancestors. What about the general ancestors’ life? Now turn to page 43 and look at the pictures and think what these early people are doing? S1: Some are preparing food. S2: One is making tools by sharpened stone tools and scraper. T: Good. From the picture, we can learn something about early people’s life. Now read the passage and find out what the life was like. Step Ⅲ Reading Play the tape for the students to listen. At the same time, the students are asked to choose the main idea of the passage. A. The marriage life of Lala and Dahu. B. The separate responsibilities of men and women. C. The differences between early life and modern life. D. The preparations for a feast. After listening to the tape, the students speak out the answer together.

Sample answers:D Play again the tape for the students to listen. At the same time, the students are asked to choose the main idea of each paragraph. A. The description of Dahu. B. How did Dahu make tools. C. Lala and her families made preparations for the feast. D. Lala worried about the preparations for the feast and she hoped the feast could be as good as the one last year. Sample answers: Para.1 D

Para.2 C

Para.3

A

Para.4

B Step Ⅳ Post-reading T: OK, since we have already know what the passage is about, now let’s check whether the following statement are true or not.(If you finish, discuss with your partners and if the statement is wrong, you should find out the evidence.) 1. Lala’s family groups usually lived together.

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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. Sample answers: F T T F T: 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. After a few minutes, check the answers.

Sample answers:

Men’s tasks: making tools, fishing, making

fire, protecting the family from wild animals, cutting up meat. Women’s tasks: collecting nuts and fruit, making and sewing clothes, looking after baby, preparing food, doing housework. Men’s tasks

1 Making and

repairing tools

2 Fishing

3 Cutting down trees

4 Hunting animals

5 Protecting the group from harm

T: Good work. Knowing the details about the passage, can you sum up the key information of it? Let’s do the exercise to check. 1．__________ (worry) about the preparations for her feast, Lala quickly turned for home. 2. __________ was the custom of family groups to separate and then gather again at different sites for reunions. If only she 3. __________ (look) ahead and planned 4. __________ (good) this year, Lala thought.

Women’s tasks

1 Collecting nuts, fruits and water

2 Cutting up meat and fish for cooking

3 Preparing skins to make clothes

4 Preparing food

5 Looking after children

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Having heard wolves howling in the forest, Lala accelerated her walk up the path to the caves 5. __________ (fear) that there might be wild beasts. She had no man 6. __________ his spear to protect her. She had almost reached her destination 7. __________ a delicious smell arrested her progress and she stopped. 8. __________ (abrupt) Lala sat down，only 9. _______________ (scoop) up by her sister, Luna.

Lala was in high 10. __________ (spirit) when the first of the guests from the neighbouring caves began to arrive for dinner. Sample answers:1.Worried 2.It 3.had looked 4.better 5.fearing 6.with 7.when

8.Abruptly 9.to be scooped 10.spirits StepⅤ words and expressions 1.date back to. . . 追溯到…，始于，= date from常用一般现在时，而且无被动语态。

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Every spring we will take pictures in front of the old tree, which __________ (date) back to as early as 800 years ago.

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His interest in the art can _____________ a little incident in his childhood.

他对美术的兴趣可以追溯到孩童时代的一件小事。

2. If only it could be just like last year!

If only 但愿......; 要是……就好了。其后一般用虚拟语气。

过去虚拟

had done

现在虚拟

Did be动词用were

将来虚拟

would/could/should/might+do

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I dreamed the coming exams. If only I could have time to receive my lessons. 

If only I had another chance.

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If only you had come to help us yesterday! If only he __________ (lie) quietly as the doctor instructed, he would not suffer so much now.

3.She had almost reached her destination when a delicious smell arrested her

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progress and she stopped. had done. . . when. . . (刚)做完了…就在那时…

①(2017·天津卷改编)I______________ (drive) down to London when I suddenly found that I was on the wrong road.

②I was about to leave the room __________ the bell rang.

③I ____________________ my work __________ the power went out.

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Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing, shouting sister, Luna. only to do 是不定式作结果状语，表示意料之外的结果。

①Tom took a taxi to the airport, only __________ (find) his plane high up in the sky.

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Bill returned after the war, only __________ (tell)that his parents had died.

Homework Finish the exercise of U5 Recite all the words and expressions

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