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Unit 5

The Land Where There Were No Old Man

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I.Teaching Contents

1.Vocabulary and useful expreions

2.Grammar:

Review attributive clause: the relative adverb ‘that’.3.Text:

1).Explain and analyze the text and make sure the students can understand it.2).After the first step, finish comprehension work on page 82.II.Teaching Aims

1.Make sure the students can learn the new words and expreions in the text with the help of dictionary and can finish word study on page 83.2.Through studying the text, make sure the students can finish language work on page 82.III.Key Points

Explain and analyze the text and make sure the students can understand it.IV.Difficult Points

attributive clause

V.Teaching periods: 4

VI.Teaching Proce

1.Main idea of the paage

Long long ago in a country, the young people thought that the old people had lived long enough and they were no use to the country, so they decided to kill all of them.Only one kind-hearted man took pity on his father, he hid his father in a cellar and took care of him.Time paed and a terrible drought, there was no grain can live this year.More trouble followed the next year, they had no a single grain of seed to put into the ground.So the young man was very sad all the time.His father saw this situation of his son, and asked him the reason.The son told him all the troubles from beginning to the end.The old man advised his son to plough the lane(车道)in front of his house.So the young man got the grain.All these showed that the old people had intelligence and wisdom.Since then, the young people in the country never killed the old people any more.2.Detailed study of the text.1)What was the use of their going on living with their white beards and all?They became so old and their beards were white, what was the use of going on living in the world?

And all: all the other signs of old age, such as feeblene and uselene.2)They’d lived their life, they’d had their time and that was that:

The old people have lived their lives and now it’s time for them to die.So on more to be said or done, they should simply die.3)They’ve got a head on their shoulders:

They are intelligent.4)bother: disturb

5)He was to be done away with: killed

6)done away with: killed

7)paed away: died

8)Took pity on his father: felt sorry for his father

9)he owed his life to him in the first place:

After all, he got his life from his father in the world.10）shrivelled: made sth.be dry or became dry and wrinkled

eg.The hot sunshine shrivelled the gra

11)thick and fast: in rapid succeion or following quickly.12)put up with: tolerate

13)and spring was upon them without their …

was upon them: arrived suddenly

14)They scraped the floors of all the barns that used to be stacked so high they could hardly hold all the grain.Scraped: sought or found carefully.so high(that)they could hardly hold all the grain.They scraped the floors of all the barns.The barns used to be stacked so high that

they could hardly hold all the grain.15)on bad terms with: not friendly with

16)…the whole people were overcome with horror and fear at the thought that spring had come…

were overcome with: be full of with

at the thought: on thinking of

2.Get the right word

1)a person who elected to an official post: councillor

2)serious and quiet in thinking: thoughtful

3)grow: sprout

4)forgive: pardoned

5)shriveling: becoming dry and wrinkled

6)stacked: piled up

VII．Comprehension work(see the text book on page 59)