1、Reading,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?,clay lamp,Chinese chimes,clay / pottery,to light the house,electric light,metal, possibly bronze or brass,to provid
2、e music,xylophone,When you have come to a conclusion, fill in the chart below. Then report to the class.,stone/ jade axe,stone/ jade,to chop wood,chain saw,death mask,gold,to cover the face of the pharaoh after his death,none,Who are they?,Zhoukoudian is a relic of primitive culture, 48 kilometers s
3、outhwest of downtown Beijing, where Longgushan (dragon skeleton mountain) is standing. Several decades ago, local farmers,Tell what you have known about Zhoukoudian Caves.,mined lime-stone in Zhoukoudian, came upon some bone fossils and called them “the Dragon Bones”. Zhoukoudian became known as “Dr
4、agon Bone Mountain”. Drugstores purchased the bones as a medical ingredient. The news about the “magic bones” drew attention of scientists.,In 1929 these lime-stone caves became world famous with the discovery of a skull and two teeth dating back 200,000 to 500,000 years. They were named Peking Man.
5、 But the fossils were lost during World War II. Many of the implements used by those early,humans, and bones of animals they hunted are on display at a museum near the site of the discovery. With the steadily increased number of visitors from all over the world, Zhoukoudian has become a scenic spot
6、of Beijing.,Skimming,A visit to the Zhoukoudian caves,The text is about a group of students from _ paid a visit to the Zhoukoudian caves, from which they learned a lot about the _ of the early people living there.,England,life,Read the text quickly and complete its main idea.,Tell the 3 topics that
7、the archaeologist talked about.,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 ways in which the life of early people differs from modern ones.,Scanning,caves, perhaps with ski
8、ns to keep out the cold,scrapers, axe-heads, bone needles,animal skins sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces,scare,burning,Careful reading,I. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.,Layers,skins,bone,clothes,trade,seaside,1. Why have the English students come to the Zhoukoudian ca
9、ves?The students want to find out about how early people lived. There are no such sites in England while the Zhoukoudian caves provide an excellent example of a site where early people lived.,II. Answer the following questions after a careful reading.,3. How did early people keep warm?They used fur
10、from animals for clothes and had fires burning all winter.,2. Where did early people live?Early people lived in caves.,4. What did they use for doors?The archaeologist thinks they may have used animal skins.,5. What did they eat?They ate animal meat, such as tigers and bears, and fish from the lake
11、nearby. They also picked fruit when it was ripe.,6. What animals were their most dangerous enemies?Tigers and bears were their most dangerous enemies.,7. How did they make clothes?,Their clothes were made from animal skins. They used sharpened stone tools to cut up the animals and remove their skin.
12、,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.,Some of the necklace beads were made of animal bones b
13、ut some were made of shells, which tell us that all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there was trade between early people or they traveled to the seaside on their journeys.,8. What can we learn from the necklace they wore?,9. What did the earliest people use fi
14、re for?They used fire to keep them warm, cook the food and scare the animals. 10. Whats the main idea of the text?A brief introduction of the life and habits of the earliest people in Zhoukoudian.,Work in groups of four. Imagine one of you is an archaeologist who is having a press conference (记者招待会)
15、, and the others are journalists. You can ask the archaeologist any question about early people (Peking Man).,Role-play,An archaeologist is showing a group of students from England around _, where some of the _ people lived.,the Zhoukoudian caves,earliest,Post reading,First the archaeologist describ
16、es how early people lived in the caves. They made _ to keep them warm, cook the food and _ wild beasts away as well. They might have kept the fire burning all winter and hung _ at the cave mouth to keep out the cold during the freezing winter. _ were their most dangerous enemies.,fires,scare,animal
17、skins,Tigers and bears,Then the archaeologist shows the students a picture of a sewing needle. The needle which seems to be made of _ is at most three centimetres long. Early people could cut animal skins and sew the pieces together to make their own _.,bone,clothes,Last of all the archaeologist sho
18、ws them a primitive _. It is made of animal bones and _. At that time early people cared about their _ and perhaps there was _ between early peoples or they travelled to the seaside on their journeys.,necklace,shells / seashells,appearance,trade,Being polite: You must be aware that Im sorry to inter
19、rupt you but.,Useful sentence pattern,Ways to explain things: We think it is reasonable to assume We think they might,We have been excavating We have been finding It seems Our evidence suggests As the botanical analyses have been specially showing us Perhaps ,1) Go over the text. 2) Write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Caves. 3) Preview “the present perfect continuous tense”.,Homework,