2019学年度人教版选修八Unit 5 Meeting yourancestorsPeriod1Reading教案设计

(A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAN CAVES)

Aims

To help students develop their reading ability

To help students learn about ancestors of theirs

To help students revise the verb tenses

Procedures

I. 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.

II. Pre-reading

What is archaeology or archeology?

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.

III. Reading for forms of language

Read the text to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.

IV. Copying and making sentences

You are asked to copy all the useful expressions into your notebook after class as homework. You may make your own sentences with each of these expressions.

Expressions from A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAN CAVES come to...for a visit 来......参观，show...around 带领......参观，a great pleasure to do... 非常乐意做......，be interested in... 对......感兴趣，find evidence of... 找到......的证据，in the caves higher up the hill 在高山上的洞穴里，regardless of the cold 不顾寒冷，keep warm 保暖，in the center of ... 在......的中心，construct fires 生火，cook the food 做饭， scare wild animals away 吓跑野兽，excavate layers of ...挖掘一层层的......，keep the fire burning 让火一直着着，all winter 整个冬季，at the cave mouth 在洞口，to keep out the cold 御寒， tell...about... 告诉......关于......， show pictures of ..., 展示......的照片，make the hole for ... 挖一个......的洞，make one's own clothes 做自己的衣服， wear clothes made entirely of... 穿着完全由......制成的衣服， sew... together 把......缝在一起，use sharpened stone tools 使用尖利的石器，cut up... 切碎， clean...from ...把......从......去掉， rub an ample amount of...inside the skin擦上大量的......在兽皮里， make... soft enough 使......足够柔软，a primitive necklace一条原始的项链，care about... 在意......，from the seaside 从海边， look very like...看起来非常像......， part of a large shallow lake 一个很大的浅水湖的一部分， miles from the sea, 离海几英里远 ，travel to... 去......旅行，on the journeys 在旅途中， move around 四处走动， follow the herds of animals跟着兽群， grow own crops 种植谷物， pick fruit 摘野果