Warming up and Reading Unit5 Meeting your ancestors ancestors.
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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