Warming up and Reading

Unit5 Meeting yourUnit5 Meeting your

ancestorsancestors

What is it?What is it made of?What was it used for?What are the modern alternatives?

Warming upWarming up

Please look at each picture and answer the questions

Oil /clay lamp

Chinese Chimes

In pairs, try to identify these objects. Discuss what they may have been made of and explain their use. Can you think of the alternatives we would use today?

Stone axeDeath mask

P1:A household object from Ancient Greece （ Oil Lamp ） 古希腊的家用物品

This is an oil /clay lamp that was used to give light at night. It was possibly used for parties, housework or study.

p2:Chinese Chimes （编钟）This is a musical instrument which is Chinese Chimes. Different notes could be made by making the bells larger or smaller.

p3:Stone axe:This tool is made of jade stone which is a stone axe. 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.

玉石

木柄，木制的把手

p4:A face of an Egyptian Pharaoh(Death mask)

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.

Its name What it was made of

Its use Today’s alternative

Fill in the chart below.

1.Oil lamp

2.Bianzhong

3.Stone axe

4.Death mask

Bronze

Bronze

Stone

Gold

Get light

Play music

Scrape and cut up thing

To cover the face of the pharaoh after his death

Electric light

Piano, violin ,guitar

Chain saw,

Steel axe

none

链锯

Please read the text quickly then tell th

e 3 topics of the archaeologist’s part of th

e dialogue.And finish the chart in Ex.3 in

Comprehending

Skimming

Topic 1

Topic 2

Topic 3

Life in the cave

What we can learn from a needle

What we can learn from a necklace

Read the text again and get the main idea of

the dialogue and then write down the three wa

ys in which the life of early people differs from

modern ones.Finish Ex.2 in Comprehending

Scanning

Homes

Tools

Dress

Peking man lived in Zhoukoudian Caves of rocks and trees, perhaps with skins to keep out the coldThey used needle that was made of bone, sharpened stone tools and scraper made by stones.

They wore clothes from animal skins and they also wore necklace made from seashells or animal teeth.

1. How did they keep warm? 2. What animals were their most

dangerous enemies? 3. How did they make clothes? 4. What can we learn from the

necklace they wore?

Listening

Answer the following questions after listening to the text.

1. 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.

2. What animals were their most dangerous

enemies?

Tigers and bears were their most dangerous

enemies.

Possible answers:

3. How did they make clothes?

Their clothes were made from animal _______.

They used __________stone tools to____ ___ the

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 have cut it and ______the

pieces together with _______ made of animal bones.

skins

sharpened

scrapers

rub

cut upremove

soft

sewnneedles

4.What can we learn about the necklace they wore?

Some of the necklace beads were made of animal

_______ but some were made of ______, which

tell us that all the fields around here used to

be part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there

was _____ between early people or they traveled

to the seaside on their journeys.

bones shells

trade

Modern people

Peking Man

Accuracy

Place for living

Stone, wooden or brick house.

CaveVery accurate

After read: Compare modern people

and Peking man.

Modern people

Peking Man

Accuracy

Furn-iture

Beautiful furniture with lots of ornaments mostly made of wood or other special materials.

Natural furniture made of stone or wood.

Accurate

Modern people

Peking Man

Accuracy

Enterta-inment

Watching TV, surfing the Internet and traveling.

Enjoy the nature or family get-together.

Inaccurate

Modern people

Peking Man

Accuracy

Food

Fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, etc.

Natural food, such as nuts and fruits.

Accurate

Modern people

Peking Man

Accuracy

Clothing

Natural and man-made fibres.

Clothes made from animal skins, leaves

Accurate

1) Go over the text.

2) Write a brief introduction to the

Zhoukoudian Caves.

3) Preview “the present perfect

continuous tense”.

Homework