Using LanguageⅠ优质课教案

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Using language

I.

Teaching Objectives

1.

Knowledge Objectives

Make the students master the following words, phrases and sentence patterns. (1)

Important words and phrases division, pulse, applaud, look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy (2)

Important sentence patterns（

If only it could be just like last year. If only she had looked ahead and planed better this year. 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. Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing shouting sister. 2.

Ability Objectives

(1)

Learn about the life in 18000BC. (2)

Develop the Ss’ some basic reading skills through reading activities. (3)

Train the Ss’ speaking ability

3.

Emotional Objectives

(1)

Train the Ss’ ability to cooperate with others. (2)

Widen their knowledge and stimulate the Ss’ interest in primitive life and the development of human society so as to improve their own development.

II. Teaching important points 1. Have a good understanding of the text through the exercises. 2. Develop the Ss’ some basic reading skills. 3. Learn the words and phrases listed above. III. Teaching difficult points

Enable the Ss’

to talk about the work division between men and women in primitive society. IV. Teaching and Learning Methods

1.Task-based method to make students interested in what they will learn. 2. Fast reading to get the general idea of the passage

3. Careful reading to get some detailed information. V. Teaching Aids

A blackboard, a projector and a computer for multimedia VI. Teaching Procedures (教学过程)

Step 1. Lead- in

Purpose: To bring in the topic

Ask the students to tell about the life of the primitive people from what they learned from the reading passage. Give some questions to help if necessary. Where did they live? Did they make and use any tools? Did they care about their

appearance? How do you know about this?

Step 2. Pre-reading Ask the students to look at the title of the passage on page 43 and the pictures in it. What do you think the passage is about? Can you guess what would be eaten on the feast in 18,000 BC?

Step 3 Reading Purpose: To develop the Ss some basic reading skills.

To get Ss to have a good understanding of the text . Task 1. Fast reading

Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text. Go through the passage quickly to see whether you have guess right. Task 2. Careful reading Purpose: To grasp the details of the text so that they can have a good understanding

Get the Ss to scan the passage quickly and find out what the possible work division between men and women in primitive societies and fill in the chart below.

Men’s tasks

Women’s tasks

1 1 2

Fishing 3 4 5 2 3 4

Preparing food 5 Task3: In pairs work out which jobs Dahu did and which Lala did. Purpose: To

train the Ss’ ability to cooperate with others.

Step 4. Discussion Purpose: To deepen the students’ understanding of the text; to develop their speaking and reasoning ability

(1)

Now look closely at the tasks and discuss which adjectives best describe each of them. Give your reasons. Caring tough protective

dangerous safe useful co-operative patient individual exhausting skilful (2) Use the reading passage to find out: When they work co-operatively and when they do tasks alone

Who does the most dangerous tasks Where the danger comes from Whether the tasks are shared fairly between men and women Ask one or two students to give a summary about what they have discussed.

Step 5. Learning about language Ask the students to go through the passage and underline any words, phrases or sentence patterns they think difficult. Show the following sentences on the screen and get the students to pay special attention to. If only it could be just like last year. If only she had looked ahead and planed better this year. 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. Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing shouting sister. Home work 1.

Retell the passage in your words within120 words. 2.

Master the new words and phrases in the passage.