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Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

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Revise the verb tenses

(including the Present Perfect Continuous Tenses)

Aims To help students revise the verb tenses To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures Procedures I. Warming up by revising the verb tenses Active Tenses THE PASSIVE TENSES

II. Reading aloud to the recording

The more you read aloud, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

And the more you read aloud, the more you know; and the more you know, the smarter you grow. So listen and read to the recording of the text. Pay attention to the pronunciation, stress and intonation.

III. Discovering useful words and expressions Turn to page 40 and fill in the blank to complete the two exercises. IV. Reading more about Davidson Black Davidson Black 1884-1934 Davidson Black was born in Toronto, Canada in 1884. He learned early on that good communication skills with other cultures would aide him in learning about them. Black not only befriended the Indians and learned their languages in his early days; he also got along extremely well with his Chinese colleagues. He was always eager to know more and this progressed throughout his life.

He earned a degree in Medical Science in 1906 from the University of Toronto, then went back to study comparative anatomy. By 1909, Black was an Anatomy Instructor.

After realizing his passion for human evolution, he gained his big break. In 1919 he was offered a position at Peking Union Medical College in China. In 1927, Black began an enormous excavation at Zhoukoudian, which is near Peking. It was there that a hominid lower molar of unusual distinction was discovered. After studying this tooth with intense focus, Black recognized the existence of a previously unknown hominid genus and species. He also pointed out the close relationships among Peking man and Pithecanthropus Erectus.

Davidson Black inferred that the Peking man was ‘a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.’ Some scientists were skeptical of Black’s findings, and in 1928, while Black was traveling to validate his beliefs to other scientists, half of a lower jaw was found with three teeth still intact. But the evidence he was really looking for was in the discovery of skull of the first Peking man. In 1932, Black was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His hard work and dedication carried him far in his experiments and discoveries, but the stress eventually got to him. He struggled with a congenital heart defect, which when he overworked would act up. He worked long days at his office, often returning again to work during the night, with very minimal sleep. This obsession eventually lead to his death at age 49, in March of 1934, while working alone in his office at night. V. Revising the present perfect continuous tense