Learning about Language教学教案设计

Book 8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 教学设计

学习目标

1. Enable the students to talk about archaeological evidence and knowledge and learn to describe people and practice giving opinions

2. Enable the Ss to tell the differences between modern people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their lives. 知识链接（补充知识）

Archaeology is the study of ancient civilizations by scientific analysis of physical remains found in the ground. But unlike history it often has to deal with civilizations that have no written records.

The reading here relates to early people and especially to Peking Man. This is going to be the subject of the reading passage. 自修检测

I. Intensive reading Task 1.Choose the best answers from A,B,C or D in the following exercises after reading the passage---- A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAIN CAVES. 1. The main idea of the text is about the _____ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves. A. life and habits

B. food and clothing C. homes and fishing

D. farming and hunting 2. Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned EXCEPT _____ . A. homes

B. tools

C. dress

D. entertainment 3. Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves kept themselves warm by ____. A. working

B. fighting

C. making fires

D. hunting 4. Evidence has showed that the earliest people in the Caves used _____ to make clothes according to the conversation. A. leaves

B. tree skins

C. animal skins

D. cotton 5. From the conversation we can infer that the earliest people in the Caves were very _____. A. busy and rich

B. idle and lazy C. clever and hard working

D. stupid and cruel

Task 2.Skim the diaries and choose the best answer.

1. What is 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 preparation work for a feast

2. Why did Lala accelerate her walk? _________. A. Because she sensed wild animals following her B. Because she feared her husband would get angry C. Because she had to prepare for the feast

D. Because she feared there might be wild animals attacking her. 3. Lala was happy last year because _________. A. she was lucky to be chosen by Dahu

B. she didn’t have to prepare for the feast

C. her husband loved her more

D. she was together with her mother and sister

4. Dahu usually did the following EXCEPT _______according to the passage. A. sharpening scrapers

B. collecting fruit

C. fishing

D. killing animals

5. We can infer from the passage that Lala was ______her life.

A. worried about

B. satisfied with

C. tired of

D. disappointed at

I. Useful expressions: 1. 得出结论

2. 遭受饥饿

3. 尝试, 猜测

4. 领……到处看

5. 意识到……

6. 不管, 不顾

7. 把……吓走

8. 使……一直做……

9. 至多，最多

10. 切碎

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11. 大量的盐

12. 在意外貌

13. 在途中

14. 代表

15. 受够了；饱受；厌烦

16. 要是…就好了

17. 向前看；为将来打算

18. 追溯到；始于

II. Important sentences: 1. It is a great pleasure to meet you students from England, who are interested in archaeology.

2. You must be aware that it’s here that we found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world. 3. I’m sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here? 4. We have been excavating layers of ash almost six meters thick, which suggests that they might have kept fire burning all winter. 5. It seems that they used the sharpened stone tools to cut up animals and remove their skin. 6. Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have shown us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. 7. Worried about the preparations for her feast, Lala quickly turned for home with her collection of nuts, melons and other fruit. 8. He was the best toolmaker in the group and it was a great honor for her to

be chosen. 9. If only she had looked ahead and planned better this year! Then she wouldn’t have been feeling so worried now. 10. 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. 11. Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing, shouting sister, Luna. Lala smiled with relief. III．Language points 1. In pairs, try to identify these objects.

identify

vt. _________, _________,___________; 1) She identified the man as her attacker. 2) One can’t identify happiness with wealth.

扩展: identification

n. ________; _______; ________; _____________ identification card

_____________;

identical

adj. _________; ____________; 归纳：

__________________________确认, 证明某人/某物系某人/某物

__________________________认为某事物与另一事物等同

2. Can you think of the alternatives we would use today? alternative

n. ________________________________ adj. _______________________________ 1) The way was blocked, so we had to go by alternative road. 2) We had no alternative but to fire Thomson. 3) You can be paid in cash weekly or by cheque monthly; those are the two alternatives.

归纳：只能做某事；除……外别无选择: ___________________________________ 另外的表达形式: _______________________________________________________ 3. I’m sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here? 句型“I’m sorry...but...”是口语中委婉的表达, “but”表示歉意时说。

--- Are you free this weekend? --- I’m sorry, but l have lots of work to do．

interrupt vt. & vi.

________________; _____________; ____________________; 1) I managed to work for two hours without interruption. 2) They were interrupted by a knock at the door. 3) The game was interrupted several times by rain. 2 Unit5让问题点亮智慧之光，让思维开启创新之门

易混辨析：interrupt, disturb

(1) interrupt突然中断、打断他人的言语或行为，使其不能继续。

(2) disturb指扰乱，或妨碍别人工作、思维或正常秩序. 4. You must be aware that it’s here that we’ve found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world.

1) must是作为情态动词表示肯定推测, 译作“一定, 肯定”, 只用于肯定推测。

①对现在或将来事实推测, 用

“must do”

You must be hungry after a long walk．

②对正发生或进行的事进行推测, 用“must be doing”。

The light is on. He must be doing his homework now.

③对过去的事进行推测, 用“must have done”。

The ground is wet. It must have rained last night.

2) aware adj．意识到的, 知道的

通常用作表语

We should be aware ______ a lot of animals are becoming endangered．

Though most smokers are aware ______ the dangers of smoking, they won’t give up.

3) It is (was)+被强调部分+that (who)+句子其他部分, 此结构强调的成分仅限于主语、宾语和状语。

I came across your mother on my way home last week. 强调主语:___________________________________________________________ 强调宾语: ___________________________________________________________ 强调地点状语: _______________________________________________________ 强调时间状语: _______________________________________________________ 5. So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold．

1) assume

vt.

________________; _______________; ___________________

The scientists assume that there are no animals on the moon. It is generally assumed that stress is caused by too much work. She assumed a look of surprise. I assumed the responsibility.

2) regardless of

_________________ He climbed the building, regardless of the danger. People should be hired regardless of race and sex.

He continued speaking, regardless of my feelings on the matter.

联想拓展：regardless of the consequences / danger / expense / one’s feelings 不顾后果(危险,费用,某人的感情）

6. That would have kept them warm, cooked the food and scared wild animals away as well.

keep+宾语+宾语补足语的结构意为

“使……处于某种状态(情况)”。用作宾语补足语

常见的词有现在分词、过去分词、形容词、副词以及介词短语。

He kept me ______________(wait) for half an hour. Keep your mouth __________(shut) and your eyes _________(open). 7. We have been excavating layers of ash almost six meters thick, which suggests that they might have kept the fire burning all winter suggest vt. to make evident indirectly; imply

意为“暗示, 意味, 表明”

① Her pale face suggests that she was ill. ② The handwriting of the letter suggests that the letter might be from a lady．

③ A silence suggested disapproval. ④ His bad manners suggest a lack of family education．

作“建议”讲时,

其用法为: ⑤ I suggest her going home at once．

⑥ I suggested (that) she (should) go home at once. 8. It seems that they used the sharpened stone tools to cut up animals and remove their

skin.

cut up 切碎; 伤心

1) Alice cut up the meat and began to cook it. 2) Mary was really cut up when her friend died.

归纳总结: cut _____ pieces砍成碎片

cut ____插嘴

cut ________抄近路穿过；横越

cut _______砍倒；缩减

cut...in half /into halves将……切成两半

cut ______切断；割掉；截断（退路等）;cut _____切去；剪去；删去；略去

cut through刺穿，凿穿

用cut的相关短语填空

(1) She was pretty

about them leaving. (2) She kept

on our conversation. (3) Our water supply has been

. 9. Lala smiled with relief. 1) relief

n.___________________________ with relief 欣慰地; to one’s great relief =much to one’s relief 使某人宽慰的是……

I felt great relief when I heard I had passed the examination.

2) relieve

vt._________________________________________ relieve sb.of sth. 解除某人的（负担,痛苦等）

The minister was relieved of his post.

10. Well, I’m fed up with all the attention and... fed up with___________________________________ 1) I’m____________________ waiting for her. 我等她等烦了。

2) People____________________ all these traffic jams. 人们厌烦这么多的交通堵塞。3 Unit5让问题点亮智慧之光，让思维开启创新之门

4) In the end, I just got

his constant complaining. 11. 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。

1) If only I_________(be) a doctor.

我现在要是个医生就好了。

2) If only I _______________ (say) nothing.要是我当时什么都不说就好了。

3) If only my son

hadn’t spend so much time before TV. 要是我儿子现在不在电视前面待那么长时间就好了。

温馨提示：only if表示“只有，只要”，

后接让步状语从句，主句采用倒装句式。

4) Only if a teacher has given permission ___________(be) a student allowed to enter this room. 12. 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，表示出乎意料或令人失望的结果。

1) I hurried to the post office _______________ (find) it closed.

2) He hurried home ________________________________结果发现客人们已经走了. 温馨提示：现在分词也可以作状语表示结果，但表示的是意料之中的结果。

3) He dropped the glasses on the ground, bursting it into pieces. 4) His parents died, leaving him an orphan.

13.

Yes and so well preserved．这是省略的句子, 完整句应是:

…and it is so well preserved (it指necklace) preserve

vt.

1) _________; ________; _________; _________;

n. ______________________ 1) You can preserve meat or fish in salt. 2) Efforts to preserve the peace have failed. 3) This vase has been preserved perfectly. 4) The society was set up to preserve endangered species from extinction.

5) Football is no longer the preserve of men. 6) Pantanal(潘塔纳尔湿地), is one of the world greatest wildlife preserves. 14. She had almost reached her destination when a delicious smell arrested her progress and she stopped. arrest

vt. ___________; ___________;

n.__________; _________; 1) The little baby arrested the little girl’s attention.

2) They are trying to make a new medicine to arrest the spread of the disease. 3) A man has been arrested in connection with the robbery. 4) You could get arrested for doing that. 5) She was under arrest on suspicion of murder. 常用结构：arrest sb.for... / be arrested for sth. ____________________________

____________________________ 吸引某人的注意; _______________被捕; 被拘留

II. make a summary An archaeologist is showing a group of students from England around the Zhoukoudian Caves and telling them something about the earliest people living there. The fireplaces discovered in the center of the caves show that ________ their living conditions were terrible, Peking Man were able to construct fires by which they kept warm, cooked food and scared wild __________away. What’s more, they used needles made __________animal bones to sew clothes made from animal skins. And they killed animals for food. They used ___________stones as tools to _________animals and remove their skin. ________, they wore necklaces made of animal bones or shells. They also took part in trade activities.

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