选修8第5单元教案

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

(The First Period)

Teaching content :New words and phrases in Unit 5

Teaching aims:

1.Enable students to read all of yhe words and

expressions in this unit .

2.Enable all students to use these words and phrases

correctly ,especially some important words and phrases.

3.Be able to finish all the exercises in this unit.

Teaching important points :

Teach all students to read and use these words and

phrases correctly.

Teaching difficult points :

Finish all exercises about words in Unit 5 correctly.

Teaching tolls:

The recorder

Teaching process:

Step 1.Class organization

1.Greetings between the teacher and students.

2.Tell the students the main purpose of this period

–to learn the new words and expressions in Unit 5

Step 2. New words teaching

1. Play the tape ,and get the students to listen to

and repeat after the tape .

2. Help the students to read the words and phrases with

the help of English phonetics.

3. Help the students learn to use some important words and phrases by listening to and translating some

sentences.

Step 3. Practise consolidation

1. Ask the students to read through the sentences on

page 40,ex 1, 2and 3,try to complete them with the

words right forms learned in Unit 5 .

2. Check the students’answers and help them master the

words learned in this lesson .

Step 4.Homework

1. Read and remember the words and expressions in this

unit,and try to finish the exercises on page about

words in this unit ,page 79,ex1and 2.

2. Preview the passage on page 37 to 39.

(The Secondand and Third Period )

Teaching content:Warming up,Reading

Teaching aims:

1. Target language：

Key words and phrases:

archaeology, tentative, accuracy, excavate, interrupt,

ornament, assume, regardless, sharpen, cut up, scrape,

ample, primitive, preserve, bead, botany, botanical,

analysis, specific, seashell, specifically

2.Ability aims

1). Help the students learn how to give opinion and

describe objects

2)Enable the Ss to tell the differences between modern

people and Peking man and learn how Peking man lived their

lives

3)Enable the students to talk about the archaeological

evidence and knowledge and learn to describe people and

practice giving opinions.

Teaching important point:

1. Help the student understand the passage better and learn

something about primitive people’lives.

2. How to help the students improve their reading ability.

Teaching difficult point:

Understand the text about the lives of our ancestors and

know something about archaeology.

Teaching aids:

The media Teaching process:

Step 1.Lead in and warming up

By talking about the ancient civilization.

1. Ask them the four Great Ancient Civilizations.

2. Ask them to give some account of each great civilization,

for example, speaking China, they can talk about China’s

brilliant civilization, like four great inventions

(papermaking, printing, gunpowder, compass)

3. Ask Ss to identify each picture in this part.

4. Ask them to have a discussion to complete the task listed

in Activity 2 ( to complete the table),

What is it made of? What’s its use? And today’s

alternatives?

Step 2 Pre-reading

1. Ask Ss to assume what Peking man might have done and

use thousands of years ago.

2. Then by showing the following pictures to show

whether their assumptions are right or wrong.

Modern people Peking man Accuracy Places of living

Modern architecture, which is huge, like boxes with flat

roofs, sharp corners and glass walls Caves Very accurate

Furniture Beautiful furniture with lots of ornaments mostly

made of wood or other special materials Natural furniture

made of stone or wood Accurate Entertainment Watching TV,

surfing the Internet and traveling Enjoy the nature or

family get-together Inaccurate Food A good variety of

cooked food, which tastes delicious Natural food, such as nuts and fruits Accurate Clothing Clothes made form

special material, such as cotton and wood Clothes made form

animal skins Accurate

Step III Reading

1. Play the tape once, and ask the Ss what they have learned

about Zhoukoudian Caves

2. Skimming

What is the text about? Andfind out the the main idea of

the dialogue:

An archeologist is showing a group of students from

England around the Zhoukoudian Caves and telling them

something bout the caves.

3. Scanning

Ask them to read puickly and discuss the questions. Ask

them to write down the three ways in which the life of early

people differs from modern ones.

Homes: Peking man lived in Zhoukoudian Caves of rocks

and trees. Tools: They used needle that was made of bone