广东省信宜市怀新中学人教版高中英语选修八课件：Unit5Meeting-your-ancestors-Reading(共21张PPT)

guitar
stone/jade
axe
stone/jade
to chop things chain saw
to cover the face
death mask gold
of the pharaoh none
after his death
Skimming
Glance through the whole passage and finish the two tasks below.
2. Which of the following is the correct order
about how early people made clothes?
a. clean the fat and meat from the skin
b. cut up the animals
c. rub salt inside the skin
Homes Caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold
Scrapers, axe-heads, bone Tools needles
Animal skins sewn together Clothes with needles and thread,
necklaces
Careful reading
一. Here are 5 statements. Decide whether they are right or wrong according to your comprehension of the texts you have learned and write T for True or F for False respectively:
(F)
• 3. It seems that early people used the sharpened bone tools to cut up animals and remove their skin. (T)
• 4. Early people cared about their appearance like we do. (T )
Unit5 Meeting your ancestors
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A household object from Greece A musical instrument
A stone tool
A face of an Egyptian Pharaoh
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Identify the objects in warming up and try to fill in the chart below.
4. What can we infer from the sentences--“This one looks very like a fish bone. Is it reasonable? ---Yes indeed, as the botanical analyses have shown us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Probably there were fish in it.”?
• 1. Early people might have hung animal skins at the cave mouth to keep out cold during the freezing winter. ( T)
• 2. The needle mentioned in the text is made of stone.
Its name What it was Its use
Today’s
made of
alternative
clay lamp clay/pottery to light the house
Chinese metal, possibly to provide
electric light piano,
chimes bronze or brass music
Task1.Find out the main idea.
A brief introduction about the life of the earliest people in the Zhoukoudian caves in China. Task2.Tell the 3 topics that the archaeologist talked about.
• 5. Early people grew their own crops, picked fruit and hunted animals. (F)
二. Choose the best answer.
1. Where do the Zhoukoudian caves lie? A. In the forest. B. On the seaside. C. At the foot of the hill. D. Higher up the hill.
Life in the cave ,what we can learn from a needle and what we can learn from a necklace.
Scanning
Read the text again and write down the three ways in which the life of early people differs from your own, using the information in the reading to help you.
d. remove the skin
e. sew the pieces together
A. b-d-c-a-e
B. b-d-a-c-e
C. b-a-d-c-e
D. b-a-c-d-e
3. Which of the following shows us the earliest people and the modern people have something in common? A. People hung animal skins to keep out the cold B. People never grew their own crops C. People use science D. People care about their appearance