高中英语选修八 unit5课件.pptVIP

What can you see in the picture? Can you tell us why people get together and what they are celebrating? Pre-reading When will we have a feast? 2. How do we feel when we have a feast? 3. What do we do to prepare for our feast? 4. Besides having a dinner together, what will we do when we have a feast? Usually at festivals Happy and lucky Food ,fruit ,decorations and so on. Enjoy the family reunion. Skim the text and find the main idea of each paragraph Skimming: 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. the description of Dahu. how did Dahu make tools. Para 1. Para 2. Para 3. 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? DAHU: LALA: catch fish, repair stone tools, make scrapers and axe-heads 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. Men’s tasks Women’s tasks 1 1 2 Fishing 2 3 3 4 4 Preparing food 5 5 Making repairing tools Cutting down trees Hunting animals Protecting the group from harm Collecting nuts, fruits Cutting up meat and fish Preparing skins for clothes Looking after children 3. Now look closely at the tasks before and discuss which adjectives best describe each of them. Give your reasons. caring tough protective dangerous safe useful co-operative patient individual exhausting skilful caring affectionate protective dangerous co-operative patient individual exhausting Men’s tasks: Women’s tasks: Patient (tool making), dangerous (hunting), some individual (tool making), some cooperative (hunting) skillful (tool making) protective (of group) Affectionate (to group)