课件28张PPT。Unit 5 Meeting your ancestorsPeriod 1&2 Warming
up and Reading IWhat is the object?
What is it made of?
What was it used for?
What are the modern alternatives?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?(Students work in groups. Each group chooses one object and make a discussion on it. After 3 minutes, ask four groups to present their discussion respectively.)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. We can say it a death mask.They were made of gold and decorated in beautiful colours. 北京人头盖骨化石北京猿人复原图
These objects belong to ancient times and they are the findings of _____________(考古学).archaeologyWhat is archaeology?Archaeology is the study of the societies and people of the past by examining the remains of their buildings, tools, and other objects. When did people usually use these objects in their life?2.Look and think the archaeologists’ activities.excavate 挖掘
Cultural objectsidentify and analyze 1.Who studies the archaeology?archaeologistAsk and answer. Tell me what you get about Zhoukoudian Caves before our class.Pre-readingWhat you know about Zhoukoudian Caves:Be located in Beijing.
Peking Man Site is here.
Famous for the Peking Man skull(北京人头盖骨).
One famous site of ancient human in the world.
……Reading
A Visit To The Zhoukoudian CavesFast-reading(2minutes)step1 WhoStudents from England.An archaeologistA. The farming and hunting of the earliest people.
B. A group of English students went to the Zhoukoudian caves.
C. The trade between the earliest people.
D. A brief introduction of the life of the earliest
people in the Zhoukoudian caves in China. What’s the main idea of the passage?A needle with threadA necklace of animal teeth and shellsThen the archaeologist show the students 2 things. What are they ?boneclothestradeseasideanimal bones shells Read quickly again and finish the following form..threesewedCareful reading:Read the text for 8 minutes and then finish the following exercises.Step21.Where did early people live?
2. How did early people keep warm?
3. What did they use for doors?
4. What did they eat?
Early people lived in caves.They had fires burning all winter . They also used animal skin for clothes .The archaeologist thinks they may have used animal skins.They ate animal meat. It may be tigers’ or bears’ meat, and fish from the lake nearby. They also picked fruit when it is ripe.5.How did early people make clothes? Arange them in the right order.
a. removing the skin
b. rubbing salt onto the skin
c. removing the fat and meat from the skin
d. cutting up animals
e. cutting the skin and sewing the pieces together dacbeRead again and do group activities小组活动.(5minutes)Suppose you were archaeologists, you are supposed to make an introduction about the Zhoukoudian Caves for the “Cultural Heritage Day”of this year.
Please write an introduction to introduce Zhoukoudian caves and the early people .Step3Pay attention to the archaeologist’s language style!Work in groups of six .(discuss,write and then read your work one by one )
Student 1: their living environment
Student2: why and how did they use fire
Student3: tools and the way to use
Student4: cloths(materials and how to make)
Student5: food
Student6: introduce the necklace Welcome you to Zhoukoudian for a ___.An archaeologist will show you around. It is here that we found ______ of the earliest people who lived in this ____of the world, and it is reasonable to ______they had lived in these caves, regardless of the cold. We have discovered ________ in the center of the bones of tigers and bears. It seemed that they might have use_________ stone tools to cut __ the animal and ______their skin to sew the pieces together.
Maybe there was _____between early people. They didn’t _____ their own crops, but picked fruit and killed animals. visitevidencepartassumefireplacessharpenedupremovetradegrowFinish this passage together.Thank you