人教版选修8unit5 Meeting your ancestorsP1教学设计

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors
Part 1 Teaching Design
第一局部教学设计
Period 1 A sample lesson plan for reading
(A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAN CA VES) Introduction
In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to pre-read by getting to know
what archaeology or archeology is. Then they shall be reading for forms of language, copying and making sentences, transforming information. Students will be reading the text again for the type of writing and summary of A VISIT TO ZHOUKOUDIAN CA VES. They will be asked to write a passage of their own. The period will end by students reading more about Zhoukoudian.
Objectives
To help students understand the text’s forms and contents and learn about ancestors
To help students communicate on the topic in focus with the words, expressions and structures learned in this unit
Focus
Aids
Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams
Procedures
1. Warming up by talking about ancestors
An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor. So this includes a father or mother, as well as grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on, although the correct female form of the word is "ancestrix", pl: "ancestrixes" or "ancestrices".
Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor; in a curious use of language in evolutionary theory, this is called common
descent. (Strictly speaking this may not be true for some bacteria and similar organisms which are capable of direct horizontal gene transfer.)
Some societies have had a form of ancestor worship; most modern societies seem to have focused this into genealogy.
2. Pre-reading by getting to know what archaeology or archeology is
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.
The goals of archaeology are to document and explain the origins and development of human culture, understand culture history, chronicle cultural evolution, and study human behaviour and ecology, for both prehistoric and historic societies.
3. Reading for forms of language
At your first reading of the text it is usually best not to stop and consult your dictionary. This will interrupt your process of reading and understanding. Often the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases becomes clear as you continue to read through the text. The dictionary can be used at a later stage.
Read the text to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.
4. Finding collocations and making sentences
Why do we learn collocations?
•Your language will be more natural and more easily understood.
•You will have alternative and richer ways of expressing yourself.
•It is easier for our brains to remember and use language in chunks or blocks rather than as single words.
Now read the text and find the collocations.
5. Transforming information
6. Reading the text for the type of writing and summary of A VISIT TO ZHOUKOUDIAN CA VES
Determining the type of writing will help you determine the author’s topic (subject), purpose (why
he is writing), style (how he should write) and tone (his attitude toward his subject - supportive, condeming, objective, etc.)
It is important to find main ideas when reading. Main ideas help you remember important information. The main idea of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph. The topic tells what all or most of the sentences are about. The other sentences in the paragraph are called details. Details describe or explain the main idea. Read the text to find the main idea.
A DIALOGUE ENTITLED: A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAN CA VES
MAIN IDEAS OF THE DIALOGUE: A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian Caves for a visit. An archaeologist is showing them around.
DETAILED INFORMATION OF THE DIALOGUE:
●It's here that we’ve found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world. We have found human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and ornaments.
●We have discovered fireplaces in the centre of the caves where they constructed fires.
We have been excavating layers of ash almost six metres thick, which suggests that they might have kept the fire burning all winter.
●We have been finding the bones of tigers and bears in the caves and we think these were their most dangerous enemies.
●Our evidence suggests they did indeed wear clothes made from animal skins.
●Perhaps there was trade between early peoples or they traveled to the seaside on their journeys. 7．Write as they do. (仿写)
Now you are to write a passage of your own based on the text you leaned on page 38 just now.
A VISIT TO PINGYAO
A group of students/ from Japan/ has
come to Pingyao/ for a visit. A tourist
guide is showing them around.
A: Welcome to Pingyao/ here/ in Shanxi,
China. It is a great pleasure/ to meet you,
8. Closing down by reading more about Zhoukoudian
In December 1929, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian, in the southwest suburbs of Beijing. Later, archaeologists unearthed 40-odd individually fossilized skeletons of "Peking Man", male, female, old and young, all at the same site. Zhoukoudian, therefore, became the most common site for human remains with the most abundant fossils in the world from the same period. The discovery pushed the history of Beijing's civilization back to some 600,000 years. These fossilized remains prove that "Peking Man" was primitive man in an evolutionary process from
ancient ape to modern man, and is the ancestor of the Chinese nation.
Inside the 140-meter-long Peking Man Cave, stratum accumulation was of a depth of 40 meters. The inhabitants spanning more than 300,000 years left their remains, stone tools and traces of fire here. On Dragon Bone Hill were also found fossilized remains of Upper Cave Man, who lived 18,000 years ago, as well as sites of New Cave Man, who lived between Peking Man and Upper Cave Man.
In 1987, the Zhoukoudian caves were listed as one of the world cultural heritage sites.。