Unit 5 Reading A Visit To The Zhoukoudian Caves

1. Unit 5 Reading A Visit To The Zhoukoudian Caves

2. Lead-in Do you know about Zhoukoudian? Where is it? What is it famous for? It is on the Longgu Mountain, Fangshan District, Beijing. It is famous for Peking Man, a complete skull (头盖骨) of an ape-man(猿人)dating back 600,000 years.

3. Peking Man Site One of the most significant archaeological finds in 20th century

4. Guess? Archaeologists study early people by examining the objects they used. Look at the pictures in the reading passage and think about what kind of life Peking Man lived? Did they suffer from cold, starvation or disease? Make a tentative guess about what Peking Man may have done and used thousands of years ago. Compare their life with ours today. You can discuss in pairs.

5. stone, wooden or brick house cave wooden, special for each room a fireplace TV, sport, films, hobbies, education, job mealstogether meat, fish and fruit in season fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, etc naturaland man-made fibers skins, leaves

6. Skimming What objects are mentioned in the text? necklace needle skin fire cave

7. Reading Task 1 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

8. 2. Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned EXCEPT_____ . A. homesB. tools C. dress D. entertainment

9. 3. Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian caves kept themselves warm by ___. A. working B. fighting C. making fires D. hunting

10. 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

11. 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

12. 6. What can we know according to the text?  A. Early people couldn’t use tools to make clothes.  B. Early people grew their own crops in the same fields.  C. Early people made fires at the cave mouth to keep warm. D. Some wild beasts were the early people’s most dangerous enemies.

13. Task 2 Find the information about needle and necklace. clothes methods Tools cut up remove wore

14. appearance animalbones cut up fish bones. caughtatenearby seashells travelled traded

15. Task 3 1. How did they keep warm? They constructed __________in the center of the caves where they made fires. They might have kept the fire burning all winter. They hung ____________at the cave mouth to keep out the cold. fireplaces animal skins

16. 2. How did they make clothes? Their clothes were made from animal _____. They used __________stone tools to______ the animals and_______ their skin. Then smaller ________ were used to clean the fat and meat from them. They had to ____an ample amount of salt inside the skin to make it ___ enough. Finally, they would cut it and ______the pieces together with _______ made of animal bones. skins sharpened cutup remove scrapers rub soft sew needles

17. 3.What can we learn about the necklace they wore? Some of the necklace beads were made of animal ______ but some were made of ______, which suggests that all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there was _____ between early people or they travelled to the seaside on their journeys. bones shells trade

18. Task 4 Write down three ways in which the life of early people differs from your own. Use the information from the reading passage to help you with each category. Homes: caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold Tools: scrapers, bone needles Dress: animal skins, sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces

19. Read the conversation again and find out the three topics that the archaeologist talked about. Task 5 Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 Life in the cave What can we learn from a needle What can we learn from a necklace

20. Fill in the blanks with the words below using correct forms to finish the following passage. Task 6 A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist is _________ them around. Before the students ________ the caves, they asked the archaeologist some questions. From the archaeologist, the students got to know many interesting things that they didn’t know before. First, although there are showing visited

21. only rocks and trees, the archaeologist thinks it is reasonable to ______ the earliest people lived in those caves ________ of the cold in winter from the _______ they have discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves. The earliest people made ______ to keep warm, cook the food and _______ wild beasts away. Third, they used big sharpened stones as _________ to cut up animals and remove the animals’ skin and used the small scrapers to ________ the fat and meat from the skin, and assume regardless evidence fires scare sharpeners remove

22. ample then they would rub an _______ amount of salt onto the skin to make it soft. They also cut it and sewed the pieces together using bone needles. Fourth, the early people cared about their __________like we do by wearing the necklace made of animal bones, seashells and other things. They didn’t grow crops, but picked fruit when it _______ and hunted animals. So the early people are called hunters and gatherers. appearance ripened

23. Homework 1) Read the text after the tape. 2) Write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Caves.