人教版英语选修8 Unit5 Meeting your ancestors--Period1.doc

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Period 1 A sample lesson plan for reading (A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAN CAVES) 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 CAVES. 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 Words identify, excavate, interrupt, assume, sharpen, scrape, preserve, applaud, accelerate, arrest Collocations regardless of, cut up, look ahead Patterns 1. It is a great pleasure to meet you, students from England, who are interested in archaeology. 2. You must be aware that it’s here that we’re found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world. 3. We have been excavating here for many years and … 4. My hands are dirty. I have been painting the wall. 5. It must have been very uncomfortable. 6．Do you mean to say they made their own clothes? 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 fo