高二英语下学期book8-unit5

of the Peking Man Site on the World
Heritage List confirms the exceptional
and universal value of the cultural site,
which requires protection for the
benefit of all humanity. The site is
Accuracy
Enjoy the Inaccurate nature or family gettogether.
Modern people
Peking Man
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Food
Fruit, vegetac.
Natural food, such Accurate as nuts and fruits.
Peking Accuracy Man Clothes made Natural Clothing and man- from Accurate made fibres.animal skins, leaves
Modern people
Summary
Do you think it is important for us to know about them? Why? Zhoukoudian Caves were formally inscribed (记入) on the “World Heritage List” in December 1987 at the eleventh session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee. The inscription
A musical instrument
This is a musical instrument which was play when a person hit the bronze or brass bells. Different notes could be made by making the bells larger or smaller. People composed music to be played in a large house, temple or palace.
A face of an Egyptian Pharaoh
This is a mask which was place over the pharaoh’s face after he died. Sometimes they were also buried with the dead pharaoh. They were made of gold and decorated in beautiful colours. It shows that the pharaoh expected his objects to have the best of material and workmanship.
Careful reading
Answer the following questions after a careful reading.
1. How did they keep warm? 2. What animals were their most dangerous enemies? 3. How did they make clothes? 4. What can we learn from the necklace they wore?
Unit5 Meeting your
ancestors
Warming up and Reading
Warming up
Look at the pictures and answer the questions What is it? What is it made of? What was it used for? What are the modern alternative?
Peking man lived in Zhoukoudian Caves of rocks Homes and trees, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold They used needle that was made Tools of bone, sharpened stone tools and scraper made by stones. Dress They wore clothes from animal skins and they also wore necklace made from seashells or animal teeth.
Possible answers:
1. They constructed the fires in the center of the caves to keep them warm. They might have kept fires burning all winter. They hung animal skins at the cave mouth to keep out the cold. 2. Tigers and bears were their most dangerous enemies.
3. Their clothes were made from animal skins. They used sharpened stone tools to cut up the animals and remove their skin. Then smaller scrapers were used to clean the fat and meat from them. They had to rub an ample amount of
Peking Accuracy Man Very accurate
Stone, Cave wooden or brick house.
Modern people Beautiful furniture with lots of Furnornaments iture mostly made of wood or other special materials.
therefore not only of China, but also of
the world as a whole.
Homework
1) Go over the text.
2) Write a brief introduction to the
Zhoukoudian Caves.
When you have come to a conclusion, fill in the chart below.
Its name What it was made of
Bronze Bronze
Its use
Today’s alternative
Electric light
1.Oil lamp
In pairs, try to identify these objects. Discuss what they may have been made of and explain their use. Can you think of the alternative we would use today
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. 4. 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
Peking Accuracy Man Natural Accurate furniture made of stone or wood.
Modern people Watching Enterta- TV, inment surfing the Internet and traveling.
Peking Man
Stone Gold
Tell what you have known about Zhoukoudian Caves.
Skimming
Tell the 3 stages of the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue.
Stage 1 Life in the cave Stage 2 What we can learn from a needle Stage 3 What we can learn from a necklace
Get light
2.Bianzhong 3.Stone axe 4.Pharaoh mask
Piano, Play music violin ,guitar Scrape and Chain saw, cut up thing Steel axe
To cover the face none of the pharaoh after his death
A musical instrument
A household object from Greece
A stone stool
A face of an Egyptian Pharaoh
A household object from Greece