Unit5 Meeting your ancestors-Reading优秀教学课件.pptVIP

Identify the objects in warming up and try to fill in the chart below. Pre-reading Read the text again and write down the three ways in which the life of early people differs from your own, using the information in the reading to help you. 1. Why have the English students come to the Zhoukoudian caves? 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. 3. 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. 4. What did they use for doors? The archaeologist thinks they may have used animal skins. 6. What animals were their most dangerous enemies? Tigers and bears were their most dangerous enemies. * Unit5 Meeting your ancestors What are they doing ? excavate collect identify and analyze Warming Up Today’s alternative Its use What it was made of Its name clay lamp clay/pottery electric light to light the house Chinese chimes metal, possibly bronze or brass to provide music xylophone stone/jade axe stone/jade to chop wood chain saw death mask gold to cover the face of the pharaoh after his death none Glance through the whole passage and finish the two tasks below. Task1.Find out the main idea. Task2.Tell the 3 topics that the archaeologist talked about. Skimming A brief introduction about the life of the earliest people in the Zhoukoudian caves in China. Life in the cave ,what we can learn from a needle and what we can learn from a necklace. Scanning Clothes Tools Homes Caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold Scrapers, axe-heads, bone needles Animal skins sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces Careful reading I. Read the first topic carefully and answer the following questions. 1. Why have the English students come to the