Module 8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors
Warming up
What is archaeology
Archaeology is the ancient civilizations by scientific analysis of physical remains found in the ground. But unlike history it often has to deal with civilizations that have no written records.
What job should an archaeologist do
Pre-reading
How much do you know about Zhoukoudian Caves
It is on the Longgu Mountain, Fangshan District, Beijing. It is famous for Peking Man, a complete skull (头盖骨)of an ape-man(猿人) dating back 600,000 years.
Suppose you were a Peking man (600,000 years ago), please choose three important objects for your life and give your reason.
Reading
A Visit To The Zhoukoudian Caves
What objects are mentioned in the text
Skimming
Skim the text and write down the three stages f the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue.
Stage 1 the life in the cave
Stage 2 needle
Stage 3 necklace
Task 1: choices
1. The main idea of the text is about the_____ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves. A
A. life and habits B. food and clothing
C. homes and fishing D. farming and hunting
2. Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned EXCEPT_____ . D
A. homes B. tools
C. dress D. entertainment
3. Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves kept themselves warm by ___. C
A. working B. fighting
C. making fires D. hunting
4. Evidence has showed that the earliest people in the Caves used __ to make clothes according to the conversation. C
A. leaves B. tree skins
C. animal skins D. cotton
5. From the conversation we can infer that the earliest people in the Caves were very_____ . C
A. busy and rich B. idle and lazy
C. clever and hard working D. stupid and cruel
Task 2: Scanning:
1. How many questions did the archaeologist ask the students
2. What are they centered around
3. How did they keep warm
4. What animals were their most dangerous enemies
1. Five.
2. The first three are centered around the needle and the last two are about the necklace.
3. 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.
4. Tigers and bears.
Task 3: Summary
A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist is _________ them around. Before the students _________ the caves, they asked the archaeologist some questions. From the archaeologist, the students got to know many interesting things that they didn’t know before. First, although there are only rocks and trees, the archaeologist thinks it is reasonable to ________ the earliest people lived in those caves, _____ of the cold in winter from the ________ they have found. Second, the archaeologists have discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves. The earliest people made ______to keep warm, cook the food and _____wild beasts away. Third, they used big sharpened stones as _____ to cut up animals and remove the animals’ skin and used the small scrapers to _____ the fat and meat from the skin, and then they would rub an ______ amount of salt onto the skin to make it soft. They also cut it and sewed the pieces together using bone needles. Fourth, the early people cared about their ________ like we do by wearing the necklace made of animal bones, seashells and other things. They didn’t grow crops, but picked fruit when it ______and hunted animals. So the early people are called hunters and gatherers.
Keys: showing, visited, assume, regardless, evidence, fire, scare, sharpeners, remove, ample, appearance, ripened(共21张PPT)
Why these objects are used by the primitive people
To make clothes
3 centimeters…be made of…sew…together
What did they use fire for
Keep … burn… scare…
This text is mainly an imaginative story
about a family feast of ____.
A. a girl B. a man
C. a girl of the earliest people
D. a modern girl
2. From the first paragraph, we can learn
that the family groups lived on _____.
A. fish B. crops C. hunting D. farming
C
C
Choose the best answer.
3. Lala’s guests came to ____.
A. dance
B. talk about an important thing
C. enjoy a feast
D. see Lala
4. Dahu went out to sharpen the scrapers
to ______.
A. kill an enemy B. use them as weapons
C. scrape the fish D. cut stones
C
C
5. From the text we can infer that family
groups _____.
A. lived together
B. lived far away
C. lived in the same cave
D. lived separately
D
1. Who works cooperatively and who
does tasks alone
Both men and women work cooperatively.
For example, Lala's mother and aunts were
preparing the meat of deer and pig over
the fire. Men do tasks alone.
Answer the following questions
after reading the text:
2. Who does the most dangerous tasks
Men do the most dangerous tasks.
3. Where does the danger come from
The danger comes from the wild animals.
In pairs work out which jobs Dahu did
and which Lala did.
Name Jobs
Dahua
Lala
catch fish, repair stone, make scrapers and axe-heads
collect fruit and nuts, prepare food
Now look closely at the tasks before
and discuss which adjectives best
describe each of them. Give your reasons.
caring tough protective dangerous safe
useful co-operative patient individual
exhausting skilful
Men’s tasks: patient (tool making), dangerous (hunting), some individual (tool making and repairing) and some co-operative (hunting), skilful (tool making), protective (of group)
Women’s tasks: co-operative (cooking), caring (providing food), patient (collecting food), skilful (cooking), individual (collecting nuts and fruit)
Not having ___________ and planned better, Lala felt very worried about the preparations for her feast. So she turned for home quickly with her ________ of nuts, melons and other fruit.
根据课文内容填空。
looked ahead
collection
When she was near home, a delicious smell _______ her progress and she became dizzy with hunger. She saw her mother and aunts _________ the deer and pig meat over the fire. Just then Dahu, her ________ , as well as the best ________ , came back with several ____ .
arrested
preparing
husband
toolmaker
fish
Later he began his task: he _________ his scrapers until they were sharp enough to ______ the meat and to scrape the fish. Soon, the first of the guests began to arrive. Lala hoped it was going to be just as wonderful as last year!
cut up
sharpened
Finish the reading exercises.
Try to write a short passage to describe
the life of the primitive people.Module 8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors
Warming up
What is archaeology
What job should an archaeologist do
Pre-reading
How much do you know about Zhoukoudian Caves
Suppose you were a Peking man (600,000 years ago), please choose three important objects for your life and give your reason.
Reading
A Visit To The Zhoukoudian Caves
What objects are mentioned in the text
Skimming
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Task 1: choices
1. The main idea of the text is about the_____ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves.
A. life and habits B. food and clothing
C. homes and fishing D. farming and hunting
2. Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned EXCEPT_____ .
A. homes B. tools
C. dress D. entertainment
3. Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves kept themselves warm by ___.
A. working B. fighting
C. making fires D. hunting
4. Evidence has showed that the earliest people in the Caves used __ to make clothes according to the conversation.
A. leaves B. tree skins
C. animal skins D. cotton
5. From the conversation we can infer that the earliest people in the Caves were very_____ .
A. busy and rich B. idle and lazy
C. clever and hard working D. stupid and cruel
Task 2: Scanning:
1. How many questions did the archaeologist ask the students
2. What are they centered around
3. How did they keep warm
4. What animals were their most dangerous enemies
Task 3: Summary
A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist is _________ them around. Before the students _________ the caves, they asked the archaeologist some questions. From the archaeologist, the students got to know many interesting things that they didn’t know before. First, although there are only rocks and trees, the archaeologist thinks it is reasonable to ________ the earliest people lived in those caves, _____ of the cold in winter from the ________ they have found. Second, the archaeologists have discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves. The earliest people made ______to keep warm, cook the food and _____wild beasts away. Third, they used big sharpened stones as _____ to cut up animals and remove the animals’ skin and used the small scrapers to _____ the fat and meat from the skin, and then they would rub an ______ amount of salt onto the skin to make it soft. They also cut it and sewed the pieces together using bone needles. Fourth, the early people cared about their ________ like we do by wearing the necklace made of animal bones, seashells and other things. They didn’t grow crops, but picked fruit when it ______and hunted animals. So the early people are called hunters and gatherers.(共28张PPT)
What is archaeology
Archaeology is the ancient civilizations by scientific analysis of physical remains found in the ground. But unlike history it often has to deal with civilizations that have no written records.
What job should an archaeologist do
excavate
identify and
analyze
collect
What’s the job like
It is specific
significant
systematic
accurate
Unit 5
A Visit To The Zhoukoudian Caves
Peking man
How much do you know
about Zhoukoudian Caves
It is on the Longgu Mountain, Fangshan District, Beijing. It is famous for Peking Man, a complete skull (头盖骨)of an ape-man(猿人) dating back 600,000 years.
.
Suppose you were a Peking man (600,000 years ago), please choose three important objects for your life and give your reason.
Reading
.
What objects are mentioned in the text
cave
needle
necklace
fire
clothes
Skimming
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Skim the text and write down the three
stages of the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue.
the life in the
cave
needle
necklace
1. The main idea of the text is about the_____ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves.
A. life and habits
B. food and clothing
C. homes and fishing
D. farming and hunting
Reading
2. Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned EXCEPT_____ .
A. homes B. tools
C. dress D. entertainment
3. Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves kept themselves warm by ___.
A. working B. fighting
C. making fires D. hunting
4. Evidence has showed that the earliest people in the Caves used __ to make clothes according to the conversation.
A. leaves B. tree skins
C. animal skins D. cotton
5. From the conversation we can infer that the earliest people in the Caves were very_____ .
A. busy and rich
B. idle and lazy
C. clever and hard working
D. stupid and cruel
Scanning:
1. How many questions did the archaeologist ask the students
2. What are they centred around
Five.
The first three are centered around the needle and the last two are about the necklace.
3. How did they keep warm
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.
4. What animals were their most dangerous enemies
Tigers and bears.
5. How did they make clothes
Their clothes were made from animal _____. They used __________stone tools to______ animals and_______ their skin. Then smaller ________ were used to clean the fat and meat from them. They had to ____an ample amount of salt inside the skin to make it ___ enough. Finally, they would cut it and ______the pieces together with _______ made of animal bones.
skins
sharpened
scrapers
rub
cut up
remove
soft
sew
needles
Read stage 2 carefully and find out the information about needle.
Object What can be discovered from it
Needle 1. They_______________ clothes.
2. No _______ of making clothes like us has been found.
3. Tools have been found to _____ and ______ animals skins.
Conclusion: So early people probably wore______ _____.
clean
repaired or made
material
cut
skins
animal
Object What can be discovered from it
necklace 1. They cared about their ___________.
2. Some of the beads were made of _____________.
Conclusion: So early people______ , _______ and most probably ___________.
3. Some of the bead were made of __________.
Conclusion: So early people caught and probably eat ______ in the nearby _______ (as shown by botanical analyses).
4. Some of the beads were made of _________.
Conclusion: So early people may have ________ to the sea or ________ with people who had seashells.
appearance
animal bones
cut up
fish bones
seashells
travelled
traded
fish
lake
killed
ate animals
Read stage 3 and find out the information about the necklace.
Task 4: Summary:
A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist is _________ them around. Before the students _________ the caves, they asked the archaeologist some questions. From the archaeologist, the students got to know many interesting things that they didn’t know before.
showing
visited
First, although there are only rocks and trees, the archaeologist thinks it is reasonable to ________ the earliest people lived in those caves, _____
of the cold in winter from the ________ they have found. Second, the archaeologists have discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves. The earliest people made ______to keep warm, cook the food and _____wild beasts away.
assume
regardless
evidence
fires
scare
Third, they used big sharpened stones as _____ to cut up animals and remove the animals’ skin and used the small scrapers to _____ the fat and meat from the skin, and then they would rub an ______ amount of salt onto the skin to make it soft. They also cut it and sewed the pieces together using bone needles.
sharpeners
remove
ample
Fourth, the early people cared about their ________ like we do by wearing the necklace made of animal bones, seashells and other things. They didn’t grow crops, but picked fruit when it ______and hunted animals. So the early people are called hunters and gatherers.
appearance
ripened
1) Go over the text.
2) Write a brief introduction to
the Zhoukoudian Caves.
Homework
