What can you see in the picture? Can you tell us why people get together and what they are celebrating?

What can you see in the picture? Can you tell us why people get together and what they are celebrating?

Disscuss

1. When will we have a feast?

2. How do we feel when we have a feast?

3. What do we do to prepare for our feast?

4. Besides having a dinner together, what will we do when we have a feast?

Usually at festivals

Happy and lucky

Food ,fruit ,decorations and so on.

Enjoy the family reunion.

Reading

Task1: Fast Reading

Who is the actress?

Who is the actor?

Lala

Dahu

Skim the text and find the main idea of each paragraph

Skimming:

Lala worried about the preparations for the feast and she hoped the feast could be as good as the one last year.

Lala and her families made preparations for the feast.

the description of Dahu.

how did Dahu make tools.Para 1.

Para 2.

Para 3.

Para 4.

Answer the following questions after reading the text:

1. Which jobs did Dahu do?

2. Which jobs did Lala do?

3. Who does the most dangerous tasks?

4. Where does the danger come from?

Reading Reading

1.DAHU:

2.LALA:

catch fish, repair stone tools, make scrapers and axe-heads

collect fruit and nuts, prepare food

3. Who does the most dangerous tasks?

Men do the most dangerous tasks.

4. Where does the danger come from?

The danger comes from the wild animals.

eg: If only it could be just like last year.

要是能像去年那样就好了 !

If only 但愿 ......; 要是……就好了。其后一般用虚拟语气。 If only she had looked ahead and planned better.

If only he had come ．

* look ahead 向前看；为将来打算

If only

Important Expression:

逮捕，吸引 arrest sb for 因…逮捕某人 arrest one’s attention 引起…的注意力eg: The basketball player arrested

the fans' attention.

attract one’s attention

draw one’s attention

arrest:

pronounced 明确的；肯定的；明显的 eg:He had a large ,square face,with strongly pronounced eyebrows and cheekbones. 他的脸盘很大、方形脸，浓眉大眼，颧骨突出。

注意

啦 pronounce . vt 发音；宣判

pronunciation. n 发音 ；读法

Group work:Read the passage and find out what the possible work division was between men and women in primitive societies

The group of girls ： Men' tasks

The group of boys ： Women' tasks

Task2. Read the passage and find out what the possible work division was between men and women in primitive societies and fill in the chart below.

Men’s tasks Women’s tasks

1 1

2 Fishing 2

3 3

4 4 Preparing food

5 5

Making & repairing tools

Cutting down trees

Hunting animals

Protecting the group

from harm

Collecting nuts, fruits

Cutting up meat and fish

Preparing skins for clothes

Looking after children

Homework

1. Practice using two or more adjectives to

describe the Sanxingdui Ruins objects

on page 44.

2. Try to write a short passage to describe

the life of the primitive people.