Teaching Plan for Unit 20 Archaeology

 (Period 2 Reading)

The King of Stonehenge

                   Teacher:李燕

Teaching Aims:
1. To enlarge the students’ vocabulary in talking about archaeology and historic events

    2. Train the students’ reading ability.

3. Let the students learn about the King of the Stonehenge discovered by archaeologists.

Teaching Important points:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Help the students learn about the King of the Stonehenge by reading the passage.

Teaching Difficult Points:
How to help the students understand the passage exactly.

Teaching Methods:
1. Discussion before reading to make the students interested in what they will read.
2. Fast reading and careful reading to understand the passage correctly.
3. Pair or group work to make every student take an active part in the activities in class.

Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia       2. the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step I Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.

Step II Duty report

Step III Pre-reading

T:  1. Can you list some great emperors in Chinese history?

    2. After kings and emperors died, what objects were buried with?
3. Why were dead kings given these objects after they died?

Step IV Reading

Show a picture of Stonehenge .
T: How much do you know about Stonehenge ?
  Have you heard of the king of Stonehenge?

 Let’s read a passage about the mysterious Stonehenge and the King of Stonehenge. It must give you an unexpected surprise.
Task 1: 1.Scan the passage and write down which objects were found in the grave.  
        2. Describe the materials found in the grave.
Task 2: Go on to ask students to divide the passage into three parts and sum up the main idea of each part.
      Later ask students to go through the whole passage quickly to find out correct answers to some   questions.

Step V Listening
Listen to the tape. After listening, do the comprehension exercises.

Step VI Appreciation
Show some pictures of Stonehenge.
What do you think of Stonehenge?
 Then draw a conclusion:
The construction of Stonehenge is a process of blood, sweat, and tears.

Step VII. Discussion
1. Why was the Stonehenge built or the purpose of the construction?
The main theories of the purpose existed and accepted in the world today:
  Execution ground(刑场)   Space station（宇宙太空港）    Hunting ground（狩猎场）

 An astronomical calendar（天文历法仪）     Temple（宗教寺庙）
2. Suppose your hometown found an ancient grave, and some people suggest digging it up, while others have different opinions. Please make up a dialogue with your partner, and express your idea.

Step VIII. Consolidation
Close your books, and finish the exercise on the screen. T or F exercises.
1. (  ) When the King of Stonehenge died, he was about 50 years old.
2. (  ) From tests on his teeth, it is certain that he spent his childhood in England.
3. (  ) The most amazing find was two gold earrings.
4. (  ) Stonehenge was begun around 2300BC.
5. (  ) In terms of technical development, people were going from the Bronze age to the Stone Age at that time.                    

6. (  ) It has been proven that the copper knives came from Spain and Western France.

Step VIII. Homework
 If you were the writer to introduce The King of Stonehenge, what story would you add to attract more readers? At last, don’t forget to prepare for the next period----language study. So much for today. Thank you!