Unit 20 ArchaeologyThe First PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Learn and master the following words:archaeology archaeological archaeologist curiosity decoration spear artefact2.Do some listening.3.Learn to express curiosity.Teaching Important Points:1.Improve the students listening ability.2.Train the students speaking ability 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 blackboardTeaching Procedures:Step GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step Lead-inT：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.T:Anything else?Ss:No.T:We can also go to the museum to visit the unearthed cultural relics,cant 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:Youre 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 Warming upT:Today lets 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 lets 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,Ill collect your answers.Is that clear?Ss:Yes.T:(Five minutes later.)Are you ready now?(Ss:Yes.)Now,lets 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 entertainment for them was to shout and dance with rhythm together.T:OK.Whod like to describe the life of people in the Bronze Age,the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty one by one like what we did just now?Ss:T:We know there are many important discoveries from these different periods.Please look at the following four pictures.Can you tell us where they were unearthed and where we can go and see them?Discuss in groups of four.After a few minutes,Ill ask some students to talk about them.Is that clear?Ss:Yes.(Teacher shows the four pictures on the screen.)T:Liu Qian,talk about the first picture,please.S11:Step ListeningT:Now,lets do some listening.Look at the Listening part at Page 74.Listen to the tape carefully and try to make a drawing of the tool.(Teacher plays the tape for the students to listen for the first time.After that,give the students one or two minutes to draw it.If they have some difficulty with it,play the tape again and stop where there are important information related to the drawing.At last,check the drawing with the whole class.)T:Good.Now,lets go on with the exercises in Listening.Please listen to the tape again and then finish Ex.2 and 3 in turn.(Teacher plays it again and gi