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Warming-up & Reading
Unit 5
Meeting your ancestors
Have you seen the film THE DAVINCI CODE?
Can you say something about it?
Louvre Museum
Watch a video
about the pyramid
Archaeology
Do you know what are they?
The pyramids
Terracotta warriors
Peking Man
What is the object?
What is it made of?
What was it used for?
What are the modern alternatives?
Work in groups. Examine the pictures on page 37 and figure out the following questions:
Picture 1: 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.
clay lamp
clay / pottery
to light the house
electric light
Its name What it was made of Its use Today’s alternative
Picture 3: 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.
stone / jade axe
stone / jade
to chop wood
chain saw
Its name What it was made of Its use Today’s alternative
Picture 4: 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 colors. It shows that the Pharaoh expected his objects to have the best of material and workmanship.
death mask
gold
to cover the face of the pharaoh after his death
none
Its name What it was made of Its use Today’s alternative
Work in pairs. Find out the differences between Peking Man and modern people. Fill in the table on page 37.
Peking Man
Modern people
differences
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stone, wooden or brick house
cave
wooden, special for each room
a fireplace
TV, sport, films, hobbies, education, job
meals together
fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, etc
meat, fish, berries and fruit in season
natural and man-made fibres
skins, leaves
Modern people Peking Man
Place for living
Furniture
Entertainment
Food
Clothing
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Reading
A visit to the Zhoukoudian caves
Skim the passage and write down the three stages of the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue.
Life in the cave
What can we learn from the needle
What can we learn from the necklace
skimming
Homes: caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold.
Tools: scrapers, sharpened stone tools, bone needles
Dress: animal skins, necklaces made from seashells or animal teeth
Find out the three ways in which the life of early people differs from your own.
Homes: caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold
Tools: scrapers, sharpened stone tools, bone needles
Dress: animal skins, necklaces made from seashells or animal teeth
Fast-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.
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Read stage 2 and 3 carefully and find out the information about needle and necklace. Then make your own guess of what can be discovered from it.
clothes
methods
Tools cut clean
wore
Detail-reading
Object What can be discovered from it?
Needle 1. They repaired or made _________.
2. No _________ of making material has
been found.
3. ____ have been found to ___ and _____ animals skins.
Guess: So early people probably ______ animal skins.
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appearance
animal bones
cut up
fish bones.
caught ate nearby
seashells
travelled
traded
Object What can be discovered from it?
necklace 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 _______ lake (as shown by botanical analyses).
4. Some of the beads were made of _________.
Guess: So early people may have ________ to the sea or ________ with people who had seashells.
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Discussion
How do you feel about the job of archaeology? Would you want to be a archaeologist?
If you were a archaeologist, where and what would you want to visit
Homework