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Students: Grade 1 

Lesson Type: Reading 

Duration: 40mins Instructional Design The Feast:18000 BC 宁波市镇海中学

张颖

1. Teaching Ideology At the macro level, based on the National English Curriculum, language instruction aims to develop learners as a whole man and foster their core competence such as language competence, learning capacity, culture awareness, and quality of thinking. At the micro level, reaching process is intended to cultivate learners reading skills such as skimming, scanning, analyzing, inferring and summarizing. Group work can motive learners work cooperatively and air their opinions and feelings freely.

2. Analysis of Learning Material The learning material is from Unit5, Module 8, NSEFC. The topic is “Meeting the ancestors", and this lesson is the third period of the unit. Thus the students have already know about the topic of archaeology. This passage introduces the preparation process for a feast in the Stone Age. There are some facial expressions descriptions and the name of tools that students might find difficult.

3. Analysis of Learners The learners of this lesson are Grade 1 students from a key high school in Zhejiang Province. Most of them have a good command of English and can express their feelings or understandings freely. Group work as well as some critical thinking questions. are welcomed in this class

4. Key and Difficult Points 1) Ss need to clarify the different feelings of Lala during her way to the cave and after she returned to the cave. 2) Guide Ss to understand the life of the stone age.

5. Teaching Objectives

By the end of this class, Ss would be able to 

Language competence 1) pronounce, spell, memorize and use the key words and expressions, such as: custom, reunion feast, applaud, if only, the blood pulsed through her veins,etc.

2) write about the feast using contrast,various senses,detailed verbs.

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Learning capacity 1) master the reaching skills to extract information, such as skimming, scanning, analyzing inferring and summarizing. 2) clarify the information about the process of preparation.

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Culture awareness 1) feel the value of tools in stone age.

2) understand Chinese value of emphasizing family reunion and bond.

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Quality of thinking 1) work cooperatively in the process of “think- pair- share.”

6. Teaching and Learning Methods Teaching methods Eliciting method Socratic teaching Scaffolding

Learning methods Inquiring Analyzing Inferring 7. Teaching Aids Aids

PowerPoint Blackboard

Advantages

Make teaching effective. Highlight the key words and information.

8. Teaching Procedure 

Lead-in (3mins) Activity1 Free talking (3mins) T asks students to talk about the topic of feast by asking them questions

Who would usually prepare for the feast on festivals at your home? How would your parents feel before the feast? [Justification] Arouse Ss existing information and activate their schemata concerning the topic.

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Read to clarify (25mins) Activity 2 Fast reading (4mins) T ask Ss to read the passage and try to find the change of Lala's feelings and the different role of men and women in the preparation process. [Justification] Train Ss' ability of locating information with the development of plots in the

whole passage.

Activity 3 Information clarifying (7mins) T guides Ss to read para1 carefully and to understand the worry and regret of Lala as well as the significance of the feast by question chains.

Question chains: Q1 Why did Lara care so much about the feast? So what's the significance of the feast? S1:People would reunite after they separate for a long time.

Q2 What preparation has Lala made? Was it a full preparation? What was not enough? S2: She has picked some fruits but meat was not prepared.

Q3 What's her feelings since she was not well prepared?

S3: She felt quite worried.

Q4 Was it possible that she could have made better preparation? How do you know it? S4: From the sentence "If only she had looked ahead and planned better this year!

Then she wouldn't have been feeling so worried now." She hoped she had planned better.

[Justification] Train students' ability of finding evidence for different emotions and understand the reason why Lala felt worried and regretful.

Activity 4 Writing technique appreciation

(3mins) Let Ss read the rest of para1 and T asks them why the feast of last year is mentioned to figure out the function of "flashback".

T: Why was the memory of last year mentioned? S1: To make a contrast between the feast of last year and this year, thus to emphasize the feelings of worry and regret. [Justification] Cultivate students' ability of appreciation of flashback and its function of contrasting and emphasizing.

Activity 5 Action understanding

(4mins) T asks Ss to read para2 and find out why Lala accelerated her speed and why later stopped her pace.

Q1 What did Lala do when she heard howling of wolves? Why? S1 She felt fearful because at that time men took the role of protecting the group. Q2 Why did she stop later? How did she feel at that time?

S2:She was attracted by the smell of meat and felt amazed. [Justification] Deepen Ss' understanding of the expression" accelerated her way" and "smell arrested her progress."

Activity 6 family relationship understanding

(3mins) T lets Ss focus on the action of Lala's family and presents them with the question: Q: Why did Lala say "It was good to have her family around her"?

S1: The family cooperated with each other and had close relationship.

Q: What writing technique is applied here to describe the scene of family? S2: The combination of different senses is applied to make it more vivid.

[Justification] Deepen Ss' understanding of the combination of different senses and pave the way for writing.

Activity 7 Verbs highlighting

(4mins)

T asks Ss to read para4 and highlight all the verbs to appreciate the function of detailed verbs.

[Justification] Deepen Ss' understanding of the use of detailed verbs and pave the way for writing.

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Read to Evaluate (12mins) Activity 8 Group discussion (4mins) T lets Ss discuss about what's the difference and similarity between the feast in 18000BC and 2018AD.

[Justification] Ss need to recall and analysis in the information they got in this class. Feel and illustrate the virtue of this great scientist.

Activity 9 Continuation writing (8mins) T lets Ss suppose they are one of the relatives of Lala and guides them to write about the feast.

[Justification] To make Ss have a better understanding of the use of contrast, various senses and detailed verbs, which are mentioned in the class.

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Homework(1min) 1.Compulsory: Polish your writing.

2. Optional: Search for more information about Stone age 9. Blackboard Design