高中英语选修八 unit5课件

DAHU:
catch fish, repair stone tools, make scrapers and axe-heads
LALA:
collect fruit and nuts, prepare food
Task2. Read the passage and find out what the possible work division was between men and women in primitive societies and fill in the chart below.
describe the Sanxingdui Ruins objects
on page 44.
2. Try to write a short passage to describe
the life of the primitive people.
4. Sharing of tasks: men and women had clearly divided tasks: fire and collecting nuts needed to be done every day but killing animals would only be done now and then. So the women’s tasks were continuous and the men’s tasks were more periodic.
from harm
3. Now look closely at the tasks before and discuss which adjectives best describe each of them. Give your reasons.
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caring tough protective dangerous safe useful co-operative patient individual exhausting skilful
preparing the meat of deer and pig over
the fire. Men do tasks alone.
2. Who does the most dangerous tasks? Men do the most dangerous tasks. 3. Where does the danger come from? The danger comes from the wild animals.
Para 4.
Listen to the tape and try to find the difference of ancient people on their different responsibilities.
Task1: Fast Reading
What do they do respectively?
Answer the following questions after reading the text:
1. Who works cooperatively and who
does tasks alone?
Both men and women work cooperatively.
For example, Lala’s mother and aunts were
What can you see in the picture? Can you tell us why people get together and what they are celebrating?
Pre-reading
1. When will we have a feast? Usually at festivals 2. How do we feel when we have a feast? Happy and lucky 3. What do we do to prepare for our feast? Food ,fruit ,decorations and so on. 4. Besides having a dinner together, what will we do when we have a feast? Enjoy the family reunion.
Women’s tasks:
Affectionate (to group) , patient (collecting fruits), some individual (collecting), some cooperative (cooking) skillful (cooking) caring (providing food)
Choose the best answer.
1.This text is mainly an imaginative story
about a family feast of ____. C
A. a girl B. a man C. a girl of the earliest people D. a modern girl 2. From the first paragraph, we can learn C that the family groups lived on _____. A. fish B. crops C. hunting D. farming
5. From the text we can infer that family groups _____. D A. lived together
B. lived far away
C. lived in the same cave
D. lived separately
Homework
1. Practice using two or more adjectives to
C 3. Lala’s guests came to ____.
A. dance
B. talk about an important thing
C. enjoy a feast D. see Lala 4. Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers to ______. C A. kill an enemy B. use them as weapons C. scrape the fish D. cut stones
caring affectionate protective dangerous
co-operative
patient
individual
exhausting
Men’s tasks:
Patient (tool making), dangerous (hunting), some individual (tool making), some cooperative (hunting) skillful (tool making) protective (of group)
Men’s tasks 2 Fishing 3 Cutting down trees 4 Hunting animals 5 Protecting the group Women’s tasks 2 Cutting up meat and fish 3 Preparing skins for clothes 4 Preparing food 5 Looking after children 1 Making & repairing tools 1 Collecting nuts, fruits
Skimming: Skim the text and find the main idea
of each paragraph
Para 1. Para 2. Para 3. how did Dahu make tools. the description of Dahu. Lala worried about the preparations for the feast and she hoped the feast could be as good as the one last year. Lala and her families made preparations for the feast.