Using LanguageⅡ板书设计及设计说明

Book 8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Using Language Ⅱ

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言：

重点词汇和短语

look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone, arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skillful, exhausting 重点句子

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. 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to describe the life of early people 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to describe the life of early people’s life Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点

Enable the students know more about the early people’s life and describe it. Teaching methods教学方法

Task-based method, reading and discussion Teaching aids教具准备

A computer and a projector, a recorder Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方法

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

1.

Skimming What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. The marriage life of Lala and Dahu. B. The separate responsibility of men and women. C. The difference between early life and modern life. D. The preparations for a feast. 2. Scanning 1). In pairs work out which jobs Dahu did and which Lala did.

Dahu :catch fish, repair stone tools, make scrapers and axe-heads Lala:

collect fruit and nuts, prepare food 2). Listen to the tape and then answer the following questions.

①When do they work cooperatively and when do they do tasks alone?

When men go hunting or women do cooking and prepare food, they work co-operatively. When men make or repair tools, or women collect fruit and nuts, they work alone.

②Who does the most dangerous tasks? Men do the most dangerous tasks.

③Where does the danger come from?

The danger comes from the wild animals. 3). 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 1 2 Fishing 3 4 5 Women’s tasks 1 2 3 4 Preparing food 5

Men’s tasks: 1. Making and repairing tools 2. Fishing 3. Hunting animals

4. Protecting the group from harm 5. Cutting down trees Women’s tasks: 1. Collecting nuts, fruit and water 2. Cutting up meat and fish for cooking 3. Preparing skins to make clothes 4. Preparing food 5. Looking after children Step III Post reading 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

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

Ⅳ

Practice Complete the passage according to the text.

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.

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. Suggested answers: 1. Worried

2. It

3.6.

with

7. when

8. Abruptly

9. to be scooped

10. spirits

had looked

4. better

5.

fearing

Step

Ⅴ Summing up

What have we learned in this period? Step Ⅵ

Homework Practicing using two or more adjectives to describe the Saxingdui Ruins objects on page44.