广东省揭阳市第三中学人教高中英语选修8课件：Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Reading(5)

9. What did the earliest people use fire for? They used fire to keep them warm, cook the food and scare the animals.
10. What’s the main idea of the text? A brief introduction of the life and habits of the earliest people in Zhoukoudian.
6. What animals were their most dangerous enemies? Tigers and bears were their most dangerous enemies.
7. How did they make clothes? Their clothes were made from animal skins. They used sharpened stone tools to cut up the animals and remove their skin.
Homes
caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold
Tools
scrapers, axe-heads, bone
needles
Dress
animal skins sewn together
with needles and thread,
necklaces
Then smaller scrapers were used to clean the fat and meat from them. They had to rub an ample amount of salt inside the skin to make it soft enough. Finally, they would have cut it and sewn the pieces together with needles made of animal bones.
and shells travelled to the s_e_a_s_id__e
on their journeys.
II. Answer the following questions after a careful reading.
1. Why have the English students come to the Zhoukoudian caves? The students want to find out about how early people lived. There are no such sites in England while the Zhoukoudian caves provide an excellent example of a site where early people lived.
人教课标 高二 选修 8
Unit 5
In pairs, try to identify these objects. Discuss what they were made of and explain their use. Who do you think used them? Can you think of the alternatives we would use today?
Scanning
Read the text again and get the main idea of the dialogue and then write down the three ways in which the life of early people differs from modern ones.
clay / pottery
to light electric the house light
2. Chinese chimes
metal, possibly bronze or brass
to provide music
xylophone
Its name
What it was made of
Its use
Tell the 3 topics that the archaeologist talked about.
Topic 1
Life in the cave
Topic 2 What we can learn from a needle
Topic 3
What we can learn from a
necklace
almost six Tigers and bears might metres thick have been their most
No doors dangerous enemies.
Relics
Descriptions of the relics
Conclusions
A needle At most three Perhaps they cut
Today's alternatives
3. stone/ stone/ jade jade axe
to chop chain saw wood
Its name
What it was made of
Its use
Today's alternatives
4.
death mask
gold
to cover none
humans, and bones of animals they hunted are on display at a museum near the site of the discovery.
With the steadily increased number of visitors from all over the world, Zhoukoudian has become a scenic spot of Beijing.
When you have come to a conclusion, fill in the chart below. Then report to the class.
Its name What it was Its use Today’s
made of
alternatives
1. clay lamp
4. What did they use for doors? The archaeologist thinks they may have used animal skins.
5. What did they eat? They ate animal meat, such as tigers and bears, and fish from the lake nearby. They also picked fruit when it was ripe.
2. Where did early people live? Early people lived in caves.
3. How did early people keep warm? They used fur from animals for clothes and had fires burning all winter.
Skimming
Read the text quickly and complete its main idea. The text is about a group of students from _E_n_g_l_a_n_d_ paid a visit to the Zhoukoudian caves, from which they learned a lot about the _l_if_e_ of the early people living there.
centimetres animal skins and
long
sewed the pieces
Made of b__o_n_e. together to make
c_l_o_t_h_e_s .
A
Made of
There was _tr_a_d_e_
necklace animal bones between them or they
Caves tools and
They used fire to keep
ornaments in warm, cook food and
those caves. s_c_a_r_e wild animals away.
They might have kept the fire b_u__rn__in_g_ all winter.
mined lime-stone in Zhoukoudian, came upon some bone fossils and called them “the Dragon Bones”. Zhoukoudian became known as “Dragon Bone Mountain”. Drugstores purchased the bones as a medical ingredient. The news about the “magic bones” drew attention of scientists.
8. What can we learn from the necklace they wore?
Some of the necklace beads were made of animal bones but some were made of shells, which tell us that all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there was trade between early people or they traveled to the seaside on their journeys.
Relics Descriptions of the relics
Conclusions
Fireplaces in They might have hung the centre of animal _s_k_in_s_ at the cave the caves mouth to keep out the Caves L__a_y_e_rs_ of ash cold.
the face of
the
pharaoh
after his
death
Who are they?
Tell what you have known about Zhoukoudian Caves.
Zhoukoudian is a relic of primitive culture, 48 kilometers southwest of downtown Beijing, where Longgushan (dragon skeleton mountain) is standing. Several decades ago, local farmers
In 1929 these lime-stone caves became world famous with the discovery of a skull and two teeth dating back 200,000 to 500,000 years. They were named Peking Man. But the fossils were lost during World War II. Many of the implements used by those early
Careful reading
I. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.
Relics
Descriptions of the relics
Concluople lived in the
animal bones, caves.