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Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors ---- Reading Teaching aims: Know some information about Zhoukoudian caves Learn the life of the early people Master the reading skills Teaching procedure Step 1 Warming up Archaeology

Zhoukoudian caves Step 2 Review the new words Step 3 Read the text (role play) Step 4 Skimming A.

The main idea of the text The text is a ____________ between an archaeologist and some foreign students .It mainly talks about _______ early people lived by showing some evidence. The evidence: caves, _________________, __________

B.

Match the three topics with what the archaeologist talked about.

Topic 1

A. What can we learn from a necklace?

Topic 2

B. Life in the cave

Topic 3

C. What can we learn from a needle? Topic1 ______

from the beginning to the line_______ Topic2______

from the line______ to the line________ Topic3 ______

from the line _______ to the end Step5 Careful reading A. Choose the best answers 1.The main idea of the text is about the_____ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves.

A. life and habits

B. food and clothing

C. homes and fishing

D. farming and hunting 2. Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned

EXCEPT _____ .

A. homes

B. tools

C. dress

D. entertainment 3. Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves kept themselves warm by ____.

A. working

B. fighting

C. making fires

D. hunting 4. Evidence has showed that the earliest people in the Caves used _____ to make

clothes according to the conversation.

A. leaves

B. tree skins

C. animal skins

D. cotton 5. From the conversation we can infer that the earliest people in the Caves were

very _____.

A. busy and rich

B. idle and lazy

C. clever and hard working

D. stupid and cruel

6. Where do the caves lie? A. In the forest .

B. On the seaside. C. At the foot of the hill.

D. Higher up the hill. 7. Which of the following is the correct order about how early people made clothes? a. remove the fat and meat from the skin b. cut up the animals

c. rub salt onto the skin d. remove the skin

e. sew the pieces together

A. b-d-c-a-e

B. b-d-a-c-e

C. b-a-d-c-e

D.

b-a-c-d-e

8. Which of the following shows us the early people and the modern people have something in common? A. People hang animal skins to keep out the cold. B. People never grow their own crops. C. People use science. D. People care about their appearance. 9.What will the group of students most probably do next? A. They will go into the caves to have a close look. B. They will say goodbye to the archaeologist. C. They will have an immediate discussion. D. They will continue asking questions about the earliest people.

10. What can we infer from the sentences –“This one looks very much like a fish bone. Is that reasonable?—Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have shown us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Probably there were fish in it. ”

A. Being an archaeologist needs a wide range of knowledge.

B. A lake is not the sea.

C. People can identify the fish by the colour.

D. A fish bone can be made into a necklace. B. Fill in the blanks about the texts An archaeologist is showing a group of students from England around the Zhoukoudian caves, _______ some of the earliest people lived.

First the archaeologist describes how early people lived in the caves. They made fires ________

(keep) them warm, cook the food _______ scare wild beasts away as well. They might have kept the fire ________ (burn) all winter and hung animal skins at the cave mouth to keep out the cold during the _________(freeze) winter. Tigers and bears were their most dangerous _____(enemy).

Then the archaeologist shows the students ______ picture of a sewing needle. He also explains how the early people cut animal skins and ________ (sew) the pieces together _________(make) their own clothes.

Last of all the archaeologist shows them a primitive necklace. At that time early people cared about their __________(appear) and perhaps there was trade between early peoples or they travelled to the seaside on their journeys. Step 6 Homework 1. Find out the long and difficult sentences from the text after class. 2. Try to analyse the structures of these sentences and translate the meanings.

Step 7 Extensive reading Zhoukoudian is a relic primitive culture, 48 kilometers southwest of downtown Beijing, where Longgushan is standing. The site was listed as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987. Several decades ago, local farmers mined lime-stone(石灰石)

in Zhoukoudian, discovered some bone fossils(化石) and called them “the Dragon Bones”. Zhoukoudian became known as “Dragon Bone Mountain”. Drugstores purchased the bones as a medical ingredient. The news about the “magical bones”

drew attention of scientists. In 1929 these lime-stone caves became world famous with the discovery of a skull and two teeth dating back 200,000 to 500,000 years. They were later named Peking Man. But the fossils were lost during world War Ⅱ

.Stone tools and evidence of Peking Man’s use of fire were later found on the mountain. Studies have shown that Peking Man walked on his feet and lived between 700,000 to 200,000 years ago. People of that time lived I groups in caves and survived by hunting. The group could make rough stone tools and knew how to use fire for heating and cooking. Many of the implements(工具) used by those early humans , and bones of animals they hunted are on display at a museum near the site of the discovery. With the steadily increased number of visitors from all over the world, Zhoukoudian has become a scenic spot of Beijing.