人教版英语M8U5MeetingyourancestorsListeningandspeaking教案

1、Book 8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors The First PeriodTeaching content1. Words and phrases archaeology, accurate, radioactivity, household, chronological, excavate, identify, alternative, date back to2. Conversational expressions: Practice giving opinions and describing objectsn I think that we shoul

2、dbecausen I suggest wen Ifthen maybe we ought ton Perhaps we should/couldn We must ask for help fromn What if?n It seems likely / unlikely thatn It looks liken It could bebecausen How large do you think it is?n Is there anyon the?n It may/might have been used as / forTeaching procedures:Step 1. 

3、; Lead inT: Good morning, boys and girls! You must have learned history in the past time, havent you?T: Then in history, have you ever learned “Four Great Ancient Civilizations”?T: What do you know about them?T: Quite good, Im very happy you know so much about Four Great Ancient Civilizations. Today

4、, we will talk about some other cultural relics of them. Step 2 Warming up T: Now turn to Page 37 and look at the pictures. What can you see in the picture? T: Good. Now try to identify these pictures. Discuss what they may have been made of and explain their use. Can you think of the alternati

5、ves we would use today?Step 3 SpeakingT: We have looked at some cultural relics of Ancient Greece, China and Egypt above. Do you want to know more about Chinese cultural relics?Then teacher show the following pictures on Page 44. Tell them they were found during an excavation in the Sanxingdui Ruins

6、.T: What do you know about Sanxingdui Ruins?T: Good. Now suppose you work in a museum, your job is to describe the objects as they are brought to the museum. What can you do in the Role-play? First, discuss about these objects.Give students three minutes to discuss. Following questions may help them

7、, show them on the screen.1. Guess what they are.2. Discuss what these objects were possibly used for.3. Describe these objects. You should include:a. The name of the site where the four objects were found and their possible dates;b. A description of each including appearance, shape and a guess abou

8、t the material it was made of;c. What we can earn from these objects about the people who lived then.T: OK, so much for discussion. First look at the questions on the screen. Teacher asks students to answer the questions.Step 4 ListeningGive students one minute to scan the questions. Let them know t

9、he purpose of listening. Show it on the screen.After students know the purpose of listening, teacher plays the tape for the students. After listening for the first time, the students should tick the information they can hear in each part. Then play the tape again. This time students will fill in the

10、 chart on Page 42. After checking the answers, do the rest of the exercises.Step V post-listeningT: Now, tell me what you have learnt from the tape?T: Good. Im glad youve known so much knowledge about archeological methods.Then let students finish the 3rd exercise on page 42. Let students discuss and then check their discussion.Step 5 Homework1.