Unit 20 Archaeology
The First Period
Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the following words:
archaeology archaeological archaeologistcuriositydecoration spear artefact
2.Do some listening.
3.Learn to express curiosity.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Improve the students’ listening ability.
2.Train the students’ speakingability by talking about archaeological discoveries and practising expressing curiosity.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to improve the students’ listening ability.
2.How to finish the task of speaking.
Teaching Methods:
1.Looking at some pictures to arouse the students’ interest in archaeology.
2.Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through with the listening material.
3.Individual,pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1.the multimedia 2.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step Ⅱ Lead-in
T：As we all know,China is a country with an ancient civilization.It has a long history and brilliant culture.Do you know in what ways we can learn about its history and culture?
S1:Reading books.
S2:Watching TV.
S3:Learning from the teacher in class.
S4:Surfing the Internet.
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T:Anything else?
Ss:No.
T:We can also go to the museum to visit the unearthed cultural relics,can’t we?
Ss:Yes.
T:Now,please look at the two pictures on the screen and tell me what you see in the pictures.
(Teacher shows the screen.)
S5:They are:terracotta warriors and horses and inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells.
T:You’re right.Terracotta warriors and horses is a symbol of the powerful Qin Dynasty,while inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells are embryonic forms of Chinese characters.The great archaeological discoveries play an important part in learning about China.
Step Ⅲ Warming up
T:Today let’s talk about archaeology Unit 20 (Bb:Unit 20 Archaeology).Before talking,please look at the new words.
(Teacher deals with the new words with the whole class.)
T:OK.Now open your books and turn to Page 73.Look at the four pictures and tell us what you can see in each picture.
S6:I can see an axe in the first picture.It is a kind of tool used by people of the Stone Age.
T:Right.How about the second one?
S7:In the second picture is a bronze tripod,which is an ancient cooking vessel of that period.
T:Good.The third picture.Li Ping,try please.
S8:This is a painting on silk of the Han Dynasty.
T:Yeah.The last one?
S9:I think the last picture is a work of China made in the Tang Dynasty.
T:Anything else about the last picture?
S10:I guess it is made of tri-colored glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty.
T:Well done.We know that the life of people is different during the different periods.Now let’s describe the life of people during the periods mentioned above.You can describe it according to the questions on the screen.
(Teacher shows the following on the screen.)
1.What did they eat?
2.Where did they live?
3.What did their homes look like?
4.What kind of tools did they use?
5.What objects have we found from their age?
6.What kind of entertainment did they have?
First discuss the questions with your partner,and then complete the chart at Page 73.A few minutes later,I’ll collect your answers.Is that clear?
Ss:Yes.
T:(Five minutes later.)Are you ready now?(Ss:Yes.)Now,let’s describe the life of people in the Stone Age together.
T and Ss:The people of the Stone Age ate wild fruits and animals.They usually lived in caves.They used bones of animals,fur and pottery to decorate their caves.The tools they used were mainly stones,sticks and bones of animals.They used bones of animals to make necklaces and bone pins.They were able to make jades.The
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