Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors
The First Period Warming up
一．Aims:
Teaching aims 教学目标
1．Learning goals
Help the students learn how to give opinion and describe objects
2．Ability goals
Enable the students to talk about the archaeological evidence and knowledge and learn to describe people and practice giving opinions.
二．Contents
Lead in by talking about the ancient civilization.
1. Ask them the four Great Ancient Civilizations.
2. Ask them to give some account of each great civilization, for example, speaking China, they can talk about China’s brilliant civilization, like four great inventions (papermaking, printing, gunpowder, compass)
3. Ask Ss to identify each picture in this part.
3. Ask them to have a discussion to complete the task listed in Activity 2 ( to complete the table),
4. What is it made of? What’s its use? And today’s alternatives?
5. Then make a summary of this and show the PPT of the table list on the screen.
S3. The Greek Goddess agreed to help and his wish was granted.
Name
material
today
Alternative
Clay lame
Chinese chimes
Stone/ jade axe
Death mask
Ask the students to find some information about Zhoukoudian.
The Second Period Reading
，【人教课标选修8】unit5 Meeting Your Ancestors