高二英语下学期unit 20 Archaeology.docVIP

Unit 20 Archaeology Section 1 Background I．Warm up. 呈现一组包括图片。（）配以字幕和相应音乐。 然后讨论： Discussion:Describe the life of people in China during the periods. 1. What did they eat? 2. Where did they live and what did their homes look like? 3. What kind of tools did they use and what objects have we found from their age? 4. What kind of entertainment did they have? II．Background 1.展示伴有英语配音的背景资料。⑴背景：使用所给的图片或录像资料。 ⑵配音文字：使用从右向左游走字幕的方式。The Stonehenge This ancient monument of huge stones standing on the vast Salisbury plains in England has captured our imaginations for centuries. Its the most enigmatic pre-historic monument on earth. What makes the structure at Stonehenge unique is the fact that for the first time theyre shaping stones on a massive scale. Dating back as far as 2950 B.C., theories about who built Stonehenge have included the druids and the Greeks. Speculation as to its purpose, range from astronomy to a UFO landing site. Now a ruin with many of the original stones fallen or removed, this site still attracts nearly five thousand tourists everyday. Around the same time as the ancient Egyptians were building the pyramids, the first stones arrived here at Stonehenge. The mystery of this stone is that they are only found in the Brescelly Mountains in south Wales, nearly 150 miles away. It was a huge job to transport these stones from Wales, because originally there were about 80 of them here at Stonehenge weighing up to four tons each. Now, if I got in my car it would take me about 5 hours to drive all the way to Wales. But to those people, it wouldve been an enormous distance. The stones were brought by boat from the mountains and pulled from the coast by sledge to the site. I think, you need a minimum of about 150 people, simply to move on of these massive forty-ton stones. Getting the stones to the site was an amazing feat, but building Stonehenge was much more complex. It is not just simply one stone piled on top of another, theyre joined together, this hole in th