2014-2015学年高中英语 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Using language课件 新人教版选修8.ppt

In pairs work out which jobs Dahu did and which LaLa did. DAHU: LALA: catch fish, repair stone tools, make scrapers and axe-heads collect fruit and nuts, prepare food Read the passage again and try to figure out the work divisions between men and women. Men’s tasks Women’s tasks 1 1 2 Fishing 2 3 3 4 4 Preparing food 5 5 Men’s tasks Women’s tasks 1Making and repairing tools 1 Collecting nuts, fruits and water 2 Fishing 2 Cutting up meat and fish for cooking 3 Cutting down trees 3 Preparing skins to make clothes 4 Hunting animals 4 Preparing food 5 Protecting the group from harm 5 Looking after children Now look closely at the tasks above and discuss which adjectives best describe each of them. Give your reasons. caring affectionate protective dangerous safe co-operative patient individual exhausting Men’s tasks: Women’s tasks: patient (tool making), dangerous (hunting), some individual (tool making and repairing) and some co-operative (hunting), skilful (tool making), protective (of group) affectionate (to group) , co-operative (cooking), caring (providing food), patient (collecting food), skilful (cooking), individual (collecting nuts and fruit) Consider using the reading passage to find out: Who works co-operatively and who does tasks alone; Who does the most dangerous tasks; Where the danger comes from; Whether the tasks are shared fairly between men and women. Co-operative tasks: Individual tasks: Most dangerous tasks: men hunting animals; women doing cooking and preparing food men making or repairing tools; women collecting fruit and nuts men hunting animals Where the danger comes from: 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 womens tasks were continuous and the mens task