umm i got stuck right at the start of the human for tutorial because he is using and older version than me(i have 2008)

i thought i could maybe make sense of it but you know on the top left drop down menu where you choose animation, polygons, surfaces, dynamics, rendering...etc he said set that to modelling but that option isn't there, also when he made a plane his had loads of lines but mine was just one sqaure so i didn't know what to do.