(共30张PPT)
Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors
Reading
What can you see from the picture
Try to make tentative guesses about the topic .
people in ancient times
doing chores
wearing clothes made of animal skin
ancestors' life
Maybe/Perhaps it is about Zhoukoudian caves.
The text is likely to talk about Sanxingdui ruins.
preparing meals
Who
How
Where
archaeologist
make archaeolo-gical discoveries
by
excavating
analyzing
heritage sites
_________ your ancestors
Meeting
Who do you expect to help us understand our ancestors
archaeologists' way of study
excavate
collect
identify and
analyze
Zhoukoudian Caves
Sanxingdui Museum
ARCHAEOLOGY
The study of ancient civilizations by scientific analysis of physical remains
(有形遗物) found in the ground.
Archaeology is a scientific study which shows us the route to the past and It examines what is left over from ancient times, in the form of artifacts(人工制品).
an archaeological site
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian is one of the most significant archaeological finds in 20th century. It is a relic of primitive culture.
Assuming that a group of students from England come to visit the Zhoukoudian caves, you are the archaeologist to welcome them. Please prepare a small speech.
Welcome to the Zhoukoudian caves here in China. It is a great pleasure to meet you students from England, who are interested in archaeology. You must be aware that it's here that we found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world. We've been excavating here for many years and ...
Assuming that you are one of the students, what questions would you like to ask the archaeologist about Peking Man’s life
Assuming that you are an archaeologist, would you please make a tentative analysis about what the following primitive items might have been used for
and what else can you infer from them
It might have been used for…
It must have been made of...
I think that the primitive people must have…
Identification of archaeological objects
Check the questions
How could they live here
How did they keep warm
What wild animals were there all that time ago
That's a needle. Goodness, does that mean they repaired things
Do you mean that they made their own clothes Where did they get the material
Why, it's a primitive necklace. Did early people really care about their appearance like we do
This one looks very much like a fish bone. Is that reasonable
We are miles from the sea, so how did the seashells get here
Summarize the topics
live
keep warm
What wild animals were there
Life in the cave
inferences from a necklace
analyses from a needle
Reading and checking
Part 1: from line 1 to line ____
Topic 1:
Part 2: from line ____ to line ____
Topic 2:
Part 3: from line _____ to line 52
Topic 3:
Life in the cave
What we can learn from a needle
What we can learn from a necklace
Divide the dialogue into three parts according to the three topics of the dialogue.
21
21
37
37
1. Why do archaeologists assume
Peking man lived in the caves higher
up the hill
2. What does the layers of ash suggest
Topic 1: Life in the cave
keep them warm
cook food
scare wild beast away
1
Fire can be used to
sc
Thinking
From the text, can you guess how Peking man made fire, from nature or on their own Why
In nature, there are plenty of occasions of
natural fire: volcanic fire may catch up the surrou-
-nding plants, thunder and lightning may cause
fire in forests. Early people could obtain kindling
(引火物) material from a bush fire by means of
using a burning branch of a tree and bring the
kindling to the cave. Keeping the fire burning was
important. One way to keep the fire is to add
firewood and to blow air underneath.
Making fire
Topic two: The needle
Please retell the process of Peking man making clothes by the following hints(提示).
step 1: sharpen
step 2: cut up
step 3: remove
step 4: remove
step 5: rub…onto…
step 6: cut and sew
Cut up animals
1
2
3
4
5
Remove the
skin
Remove the fat
and meat
Rub salt onto
the skin
Cut the skin and
sew the pieces
together
Thinking: What amazes you most in this process
Making and using tools are of great importance in the development of human, because it improves human intelligence and living conditions.
sharpened stone tools
(sharpener)
make fine tools by rubbing/scraping
(scraper)
the archaeologists' answers to the questions
Objects analyses
would have kept them warm, cooked the food and scared wild beasts away
might have kept the fire burning all winter
might have hung animal skins at the cave mouth to keep out the cold
_______________most dangerous enemies
might have been
might have been used for sewing clothes
sharpeners scrapers
fireplaces
layers of ash
no doors
bones of tiger
needle and thread
might have been used to cut up animals and remove skins
Object What can be deduced from it
N E C K L A C e 1. They cared about their ____________.
2. Some of the beads were made of ___________.
Guess: So early people killed, _______ and
most probably ate animals
3. Some of the bead were made of __________.
Guess: So early people ________ and probably
_____ fish in the _______ shallow lake.
4. Some of the beads were made of _________.
Guess: So there was _____ between early
peoples or they ________ to the seaside.
appearance
animal bones
cut up
fish bones
caught
seashells
travelled
ate
nearby
trade
Topic three: a necklace
What abilities did Peking Man have in order to do business with other peoples
Language resulted from human labor. When those early peoples were laboring, they had to communicate with each other, thus language came into being.
Why are Peking man called hunters and gatherers
Thinking
The three important factors that
promote the development of human:
making fire
making and using tools
using language
The significance of archaeology
It arouses people's awareness of the conservation of the world's cultural heritage against looting and careless harm.
It fuels our eagerness for knowledge about ourselves and our past.
To learn about the past enables us better see the development of human beings.
The discovery of an ancient sites can become a scenic spot, which can boost the local economy. The world‘s cultural heritage is a diminishing(衰减) resource which holds different meanings for different people.
A group of English students came to Zhoukoudian for a ____. An ____________ showed them around. He told them it was here that they found ________ of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world, and it was reasonable to _______ they had lived in these _____, _________ __ the cold. _________ had been discovered in the center where they _____ ____. It seemed that they might have used _________ stone tools to cut ___ animals and ______ their skin to make their own clothes. Maybe there was _____ between early peoples. They didn’t grow their own crops, but ______ fruit and hunted animals.
visit
evidence
assume
Fireplaces
sharpened
up
remove
trade
picked
Summary
archaeologist
regardless of
caves
made fires
Supposing you were an archaeologist, please introduce Peking man in five sentences.( The given beginning is not included.)
Good morning, distinguished guests! I am an archaeologist introducing Peking man to you today. _________________________________________
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假如你是周口店博物馆的导游李华,5月15日来自美国某中学的学生访问团将来参加“看文物,学历史”活动,请你从以下文物中选择一项做详细介绍。
学生作品1
Welcome to the Zhoukoudian caves!
I'm Lihua,your guide for the visit. The archaeological excavation here has yielded the largest known collection of fossils of the extinct Peking man. Now, turn your attention to this setting. It can be deduced that they lived in groups and hunted together.They might have learned to use tools , like the stones or branches of trees to fight against wild animals. Probably stone scrapers have been used to cut up animals and remove skins. At the same time,
we can learned that some wild
animals which has become extinct
could have existed at that time.
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学生作品2
Boys and girls,
You are warmly welcome to the Zhoukoudian caves! Hope you will have a nice stay here.
I'm Lihua, your guide for the visit. It is here that some
pre-historic human bones were unearthed, which changed China’s knowledge of its history. Now let's start with this necklace. It suggests that they cared about their appearance and there might have been some kind of get-together. Plus,there being holes in the bones, the necklace must have been strung
up with something like vines. Hence, it
goes without saying that they may have
been able to make full use of the tools
from nature and even get them improved.
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