课件24张PPT。Unit 5
Meeting your ancestors
enjoy a piece of musicBell set is a percussion instrument. It appeared in Shang Dynasty, flourished in the Spring and Autumn Period and languished in Song Dynasty.In 1978, 15,000 articles were excavated from the Zenghouyi (Marquis Yi of Zeng State) Tomb in Suizhou, Hubei Province, including the Zenghouyi Chime Bells, which is the largest set of bronze bells excavated in the world comprising 65 bells in various sizes, with each bell producing two different tones when struck. What are they doing?dig upunearth (excavate)
findings (excavations) Archaeology is the study of ancient civilizations by scientific analysis of physical remains found in the ground.Archaeologist studies prehistoric people and their culture. 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?Warming up A household object from Greece
This is an oil lamp that was used to give light at night. It was possibly used for parties, housework or study. Olive oil was placed in the body of the lamp to make the light.
There was a thread that went from
inside the lamp, and when it was lit
it provided light. A musical instrument
This is a musical instrument which
was played when a person hit the
bronze or brass bells. Different notes
cold be made by making the bells larger or smaller. People composed music to be played in a large house, temple or palace. A stone tool
This tool is made of jade stone which is hard and very beautiful. It had a sharp edge so it could be used to break other pieces of stone. The hole on the top of the tool shows where it was joined to a wooden handle, so it could be used like an axe today. A face of an Egyptian Pharaoh
This is a mask which was placed 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.Reading A Visit
to the Zhoukoudian CavesWhat do you think the reading is about?
Where is Zhoukoudian?
What is it famous for?Stage 1:
Stage 2:
Stage 3: Skim the passage and write down the three stages of the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue. Life in the caveWhat we can learn from the needleWhat we can learn from the necklaceFast - reading 1. How did the early people keep warm?
2. What animals were their most dangerous enemies?
3. How did they make clothes?Read the text carefully and answer the following questions. Careful - reading 1. How did the early people keep warm?
2. What animals were their most dangerous enemies?They constructed the fires in the center of the caves to keep them warm. They might have kept fires burning all winter. They hung animals skins at the cave mouth to keep out the cold.Tigers and bears were their most dangerous enemies.3. How did they make clothes? Their cloths 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 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.Read stage 2 and 3 carefully and find out the information about the needle and the necklace. Then make your own guess of what can be discovered from it.clothesmethods Tools cut
cleanworeappearanceanimal bonescut upfish bones. caught ate nearbyseashells travelled
tradedHomes: caves, perhaps with skins to keep out
the cold.
Tools: scrapers, sharpened stone tools, bone
needles
Clothes : animal skins sewn together with
needles and thread, necklaces.Write down three ways in which the life of early people differs from your own. Use the information from the reading passage to help you with each category .Post-readingRead the conversation again and find out the three topics that the archaeologist talked about.Life in the caveWhat we can learn from a needleWhat we can learn from a necklaceHomework
Review the text and pick out the difficult language points.
Preview Learning about Language.
