《Using LanguageⅡ》优质课教案下载

《Using LanguageⅡ》优质课教案下载

The story, “The Feast: 18,000BC”, is told in third-person point of view, mainly showing Lala’s experience of making preparations for the annual feast for her friends and neighbors. There are four paragraphs: the first paragraph deals with Lala’s anxiety on her way home. By describing Lala’s thoughts, the background information, such as the significance of the feast, the relationship between Lala and Dahu, is conveyed. In the second paragraph, Lala, who returned home, relieved seeing families working and smelling food boiling. In the third and fourth paragraphs, Dahu, who brought back fish and wood, accomplished sharpening the scrapers before guests’ arrival. Various techniques of characterization are used, like describing the appearance, actions, thoughts and emotions. Thus, the writer not only shows the audience a vivid scene of early life, but provides information of prehistoric culture, especially work division in primitive societies.

Students Analysis

Showing proficiency in English to some extent, the students are open minded, active, and willing to learn. Familiar with narrative writing, they are equipped to gain basic information of the plot, characters and setting, and are likely to be able to analysis writing techniques. However, having slight acquaintance with the topic, these science students are lacking in the cultural knowledge of archaeology, primitive societies and human life in prehistoric periods. Thus, it can be challenging for them to construct a system of related knowledge without scaffolds provided. Additionally, some students can express their viewpoints confidently, but they have limited capability of processing information deeply, especially analyzing, inferring, explaining or evaluating different views.

Considering the cultural and historic significance of Shaanxi Province, the students growing up here have easy access to visiting excavation sites or attending relevant exhibitions. They are highly motivated to conduct a research project on early people in their hometown, which is bound to enable them to learn by doing, develop both cultural awareness and thinking abilities by expanding the circumstance into their life.

Teaching Objectives

By the end of the class, students will be able to:

understand the plot and the change of Lala’s feelings;

analyze the characters in depth and writing techniques of characterization;

classify different tasks of men and women in the story and add “work division” branch to the mind maps;

study autonomously and cooperatively to gain a deep comprehension of the story and further develop the habits of reading through reading circles;

introduce the early life back to 18,000BC to museum visitors in role-playing exercise, based on the story and the illustrations;

gain inspiration for their research project, such as the perspective from which to research on the primitive societies or cultural features, and voice their feelings of the development of human civilization.

Teaching Emphases

Students read to understand the plot, characters and setting, gain the information on the work division in primitive societies, and share their notes in reading circles, which combine, in a natural way, the skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening, and thus fulfill the expectations of becoming proficient language users as well as independent thinkers.

Possible Difficulties

Students interact with the text and other students in reading circles. They need to write carefully in order to be prepared for their group discussions; to speak in English almost all of the time while in their groups; to eagerly point to passages within a text in order to support their arguments; and to question each other in order to establish what the text really means. Thus, they must try to adapt various cognition and meta cognition strategies and train their thinking abilities in respect of analysis, inference, explanation, evaluation and so on.

Learning Resources

The textbook, media, handouts, work sheets, and blackboard.

Teaching Procedures

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Pre-reading

Step 1