成都市第七中学2015-2016学年外研版高中英语必修三课件：Module5ListeningandVocabulary﹝共16张PPT﹞.pptVIP

Chinese inventions paper making gun power compass printing Do you know other ancient Chinese inventions? Match the objects with their names. silk fireworks matches porcelain umbrella wheelbarrow Work in pairs. Decide which words you think you will hear. 1 afford bark chemist contribution copy discovery farmer invent invention leather material monk print soft spread caterpillar 毛虫 mulberry leaves桑叶 Which inventions will be talked about? Listen to the passage. Write down the five inventions and match the dates with them. Write down the words from Activity 1 used for the inventions. 2 105 AD 1498 AD 1092 AD 3200 BC 868 AD Invention Date of Words used for the inventions Invention silk clock paper printing toothbrush 3200BC 1092AD 105AD 868AD 1498AD invent, farmer, mulberry leaves, caterpillar, soft, material monk, invent, copy bark, invention, afford, material, spread printing, copy, chemist, print, China has given the world many important ________. To give an example, it is the country in which silk was first invented. Silk was made there as long ago as 3200 BC. Chinese ________ grew mulberry leaves because they knew that a certain kind of caterpillar ate them. The Chinese did not tell other how silk was made and other countries ________ a lot for this soft, strong ________. Su Song was an eleventh century ________ about whom very little is known. However, we do know that in 1092 AD he invented the first real ________. For the first time ever, it became possible to ________ the time. In the ________ a copy was built and this copy can be seen today in Beijing. They say that a man called Cai Lun made paper from the ________ of a tree in about 105 AD. If so, he is a man of whom China can be ________. Paper was a very important invention because it was cheap and