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Unit5 Meeting Yours Ancestors

Using language Teaching goals

1. Target language a. important words and expressions look ahead, accelerate, arrest, dizzy, relief, eyebrow, cheekbone arrowhead, axe, division, affection, affectionate, patient, skilful, exhausting b. important sentences 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 five. 2. Ability goals

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

Help the students learn how to describe early people’s life. Teaching important & difficult points Enable the students to know more about the early people’s life and describe it. Teaching methods Task-based teaching method, reading and discussion. Teaching aids

A recorder, a projector and a computer. Teaching procedures & ways

Step Ⅰ Revision Check the homework. Ask the students to recite some useful words and expressions. Step Ⅱ Lead-in

T: In the previous period, we learned something about the life of Peking man. Peking Man life is part of our ancient ancestors.

What about the general ancestors’ life? Now turn to page 43 and look at the pictures and think what these early people are doing? Step Ⅲ Reading 1. Scanning :

What kind of food did Lala’s family prepare for the feast? 2. skimming Please decide whether the statements are 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. 3. Careful reading (1)answers the following questions. 1. Which jobs did Dahu do? 2. Which jobs did Lala do? 3. Who works cooperatively and who does tasks alone? 4. Who does the most dangerous tasks? 5. Where does the danger come from? (2) Read the passage and find out what the possible work division was between man and woman in primitive societies

Step Ⅳ Post-reading In groups discuss what the possible work division was between men and women at that time. Step Ⅴ Homework Practice using two or more adjectives to describe the Sanxingdui Ruins objects on page 44.