Warming up and Reading

Unit5 Meeting your ancestors Warming up and Reading

Warming up Please look at each picture and answer the questions What is it? 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 may have been made of and explain their use. Can you think of the alternatives we would use today? Chinese Chimes Oil /clay lamp

Stone axe Death 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.

玉石 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. 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.

Fill in the chart below. Electric light 1.Oil lamp Bronze Get light Piano, violin ,guitar Play music Bronze 2.Bianzhong Chain saw, Steel axe Scrape and cut up thing 3.Stone axe Stone 链锯 To cover the face of the pharaoh after his death 4.Death mask none Gold

Skimming Please read the text quickly then tell the 3 topics of the archaeologist’s part of the dialogue.And finish the chart in Ex.3 in Comprehending

Life in the cave What we can learn from a needle What we can learn from a necklace

Scanning 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.Finish Ex.2 in Comprehending

Peking man lived in Zhoukoudian Caves of rocks and trees, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold They 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.

Listening Answer the following questions after listening to the text. 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?

Possible answers: 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.

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 cut up sharpened remove scrapers rub soft sewn needles

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. shells bones trade

After read: Compare modern people and Peking man. Stone, wooden or brick house. Very accurate Cave

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

Enjoy the nature or family get-together. Inaccurate Watching TV, surfing the Internet and traveling.

Fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, etc. Natural food, such as nuts and fruits. Accurate

Clothes made from animal skins, leaves Natural and man-made fibres. Accurate

Homework 1) Go over the text. 2) Write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Caves. 3) Preview “the present perfect continuous tense”.

Warming up and Reading