选修八UnitReading课程学习.pptxVIP

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors; Try to identify these objects (P37). Discuss what they may have been made of and explain their use. Think of the alternatives we would use today?;第3页/共47页;Its name;Its name;Its name; Reading;What is it?;Who are they?;第10页/共47页;Task 1: Which of the following shows us the earliest people and the modern people have something in common?;Task 2: Tell the 3 topics that the archaeologist talked about.; 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.;Homes;Relics;Relics;Relics; 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.; Their clothes were made from animal skins. They used sharpened stone tools to cut up the animals and remove their skin. Then smaller scrapers were used to clean the fat and meat from them. They had to rub an ample amount of salt inside the skin to make it soft enough. Finally, they would have cut it and sewn the pieces together with needles made of animal bones.; Some of the necklace beads were made of animal bones but some were made of shells, which tell us that all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there was trade between early people or they traveled to the seaside on their journeys.;9. What did the earliest people use fire for? They used fire