Using LanguageⅡ优质课教案内容

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Reading: The Feast: 18,000 BC Teaching aims: 1.

Knowledge aim: Enable the students to learn more about our ancestors’

lifestyle, especially how they prepared for the feast. 2.

Ability aim: Develop students’ reading ability and speaking ability. 3.

Emotional aim: Appreciate the meaning of life through comparing primitive life with our modern life. Difficult and important points: The understanding of the passage and the practice of students’ reading skills. Teaching procedures: Step 1: Warming up 1.

Present some pictures about feast in the modern life. Question: Can you guess what would be eaten on the feast in 18,000 BC? Step 2: Fast reading Task 1: Scan the first three paragraphs, and answer the question.

Q: What kind of food did Lala’s family prepare for the feast?

Task 2: Match the main idea of each paragraph. Para 1.

Lala worried about the preparations for the feast and she hoped

the feast could be as good as the one last year.

Para 2.

Lala and her families made preparations for the feast.

Para 3.

the description of Dahu.

Para 4.

how did Dahu make tools. Step 3: Careful reading Ask the students to read the passage carefully, and then complete the following tasks. Task 1: True or False 1. Lala’s family groups usually lived together. 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. Task 2: 1. Which jobs did Dahu do?

2. Which jobs did Lala do? Task 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 Women’s tasks 1. 1. 2. 2. preparing food

3.

3. 4. Fishing 4. 5. 5.

Task 3: Group discussion

1. Now look closely at the adjectives below and discuss which adjectives best describe men’s tasks and which women’s tasks. Give your reasons.

Men’s task

Women’s task

2. Is there any similarity and difference between primitive life and modern life, according to the context?

Step 4: Post reading

Group competition game: Each group is asked to design their own exercise to test each other, and the designer has the right to reward or punish the other group

according to their performance. Step 5: Homework 1.

Read the passage again and find out some useful words and expressions. 2.

Try to write a short passage about what kind of life you want to lead.