Using LanguageⅠ课堂实录【3】

Unit 5

Meeting your ancestors

Using language-The Feast:18,000 BC Teaching goals 1. Target language Key words and phrases: look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone, arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skillful, exhausting Important sentences: 1) If only she had looked ahead and planned better! 2) She could see her mother and aunts preparing the meat of deer and pig over the fire. 2. Ability goals Enable the Ss to describe the life of early people. Get them to know different jobs between men and women in ancient times. 3. Learning ability goals

Help the Ss learn how to have a better understanding of the whole text. Cultivate their ability to express various opinions about what men’s and women’s tasks are. Teaching important & difficult points How to improve their reading ability in different ways. How to speak out their thoughts flexibly and put them together in a passage.

Teaching methods Task-based method, reading and discussion. Individual and pair work.

Teaching procedures & ways Step 1 Lead-in Look at the pictures on the screen. Then answer the following questions. Can you guess what would be eaten on the feast in 18,000 BC? What were early people doing? __________________________________________________________________ Were they men or women? Why? __________________________________________________________________ 1

Step 2 Fast-reading Skimming to get general ideas. 1.What is the main idea of the passage? A. The marriage life of Lala and Dahu. B. The separate responsibility of men and women. C. The different between early life and modern life. D. The preparation work for a feast.

2. Read the passage fast to find when, where, who and what in the story. ___________________________________________________________________ Scanning to get some detailed information. Judge the following sentences T or F. 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. Step 3 Careful reading Task 1 Read the text aloud, and then work out which jobs Dahu did and which Lala did.

What did Dahu do? _____________________________________________________________________. What did Lala do?

_____________________________________________________________________. Task 2

In groups discuss whether they were men’s tasks or women’s tasks at that time.

1 Making and repairing tools.

2 Collecting nuts, fruit and water. 3 Protecting the group from harm. 7 Hunting animals.

4 Cutting down trees. 6 Preparing skins to make clothes. 5 Cutting up meat and fish for cooking. 8 Looking after children.

Task 3 Use some adjective words to describe their tasks. Draw a conclusion Men’s tasks: _______________(tool making), _______________________(hunting),

_____________________(tool making and repairing), _______________(of group). Women’s tasks:_______________ (collecting nuts and fruit), _____________________(cooking),

_____________(providing food), ______________________(making clothes). Task 4 Translate the following expressions in the text. 1.返回家

2.动物群

4.极大的荣耀

6.向前看,为将来做打算

10.be scooped up

12.smile with relief

14. in a pile with 3.但愿;要是……就好了

5. 为她的选择鼓掌

7.加快脚步去……

8. in wait for...

9. become dizzy with hunger

13.pronounced cheekbones

11.blood pulse through her veins Task 5 Fill in the blank according to the content. Not having ___________ and planned better, Lala felt very worried about the preparations for her feast. So she turned 2

for home quickly with her ________ of nuts, melons and other fruit. When she was near home, a delicious smell _______ her progress and she became dizzy with hunger. She saw her mother and aunts _________ the deer and pig meat over the fire. Just then Dahu, her ________, as well as the best ________, came back with several

____. Later he began his task: he _________ his scrapers until they were sharp enough to ______ the meat and to scrape the fish. Soon, the first of the guests began to arrive. Lala hoped it was going to be just as wonderful as last year! Step 4 Discussion & Debate Nowadays, some people say: “It is women that should stay at home and take care of the family.” Do you agree or not? Please give your reasons. The expressions below may help you. Boys and girls are in the opposite sides In my opinion,…

I (don’t) agree because…

I support … because …

No, I can’t agree with …because…

No, that’s not reasonable because…

Step 6 Brainstorming Write a short passage about the result of the discussion, then read it out in the class. Let’s choose the best ones. 3