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1、Meeting your ancestors,Reading,What are they?,Terra cotta warriors and horses (兵马俑),Inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells (甲骨文),What is archaeology?,These objects above are finds of _.,archaeology,Archaeology is the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, analysis, and interpret
2、ation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, features, landscapes and so on.,Archaeology studies buildings, graves, tools and other objects related to people in the past, in order to learn about their culture and society.,Sounds Reasonable?,Do you know any famous cultura
3、l relics? Where are they?,Huge Stone Statues,Chile,Peru,Machu Picchu,bracelet,Funeral mask,Egypt,Tomb of Tutankhamun,You know, China is a country with a long history and brilliant culture. Thanks to archaeology, were able to follow the dream of meeting our ancestors.,Some famous cultural sites/relic
4、s in China,Xian,Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses,金面铜人头像,铜兽面,玉璋,青铜纵目面具,Sanxingdui Museum,Sichuan,Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tomb,金缕玉衣,云纹漆钟,Hunan,Bronze Bell Chime (编钟),Hubei,Simuwu Ding,Henan,In pairs, try to identify these objects and discuss:,What is the object? What is it made of? What was it used for?
5、What are the modern alternatives?,A household object from Greece,clay lamp,clay/pottery,to light the house,electric light,A musical instrument,Chinese chimes,metal, possibly bronze or brass,to provide music,xylophone (木琴),A face of an Egyptian Pharaoh,death mask,gold,to cover the face of the pharaoh
6、 after his death,none,A stone tool,stone/ jade axe,stone/jade,to chop wood,chain saw (链锯),Can you tell the accurate period that this object belong to?,Do you know what it is?,Which period of time did he belong to?,Do you know anything else about the Upper Cave Men?,Stone Age,The life of human in Sto
7、ne Age,Where did the people in Stone Age live ?,Zhoukoudian Caves,Do you know about Zhoukou Dian? Where is it? What is 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.,Pre-reading,北京
8、人头盖骨化石,北京猿人复原图,A VISIR TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAN CAVES,Skimming to get general ideas,Stage 1: Stage 2: Stage 3:,Skim the passage and write down the three stages of the archaeologists part of the dialogue.,_ in the cave,What can we learn from the _,What can we learn from the _,A VISIR TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAN CAV
9、ES,Life,needle,necklace,Learning tips: Pay attention to the pictures.,Which of the following shows us the earliest people and the modern people have something in common?,A. People hung animal skins to keep out the coldB. People never grew their own cropsC. People use scienceD. People care about thei
10、r appearance,Scanning to get detail information,1. Early people used blankets to keep them warm. 2. The archaeologists have found the bones of tigers and bears in the caves. 3. Early people used animal skins and fiber to make their clothes. 4. The early people didnt grow their own crops.,T or F,Task
11、 one,Careful reading,scare,burning,Careful reading,I. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.,bones,fire,Layers,six metres,skins,bone,clothes,methods,Tools,wore,cut,clean,How did they make clothes?,Their clothes were made from animal _. They used _stone tools to_ the animals and _ their skin
12、. 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 have cut it and _the pieces together with _ made of animal bones.,skins,sharpened,scrapers,rub,cut up,remove,soft,sewn,needles,appearance,ani
13、mal bones,cut up,fish bones,caught,seashells,travelled,ate,nearby,traded,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: _ Tools: _ Clothes: _,Careful reading,Task three,caves, perhaps
14、with skins to keep out the cold,scrapers, axe-heads, bone needles,animal skins sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces,Reading Comprehension,Reading Comprehension,Choose the best answer.,The main idea of the text is about the_ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves. A. life and hab
15、its B. food and clothing C. homes and fishing D. farming and hunting,A,2. 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.,3. Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned EXCEPT _ . A. homesB. tools C. dres
16、s D. entertainment 4. Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves kept themselves warm by _. A. working B. fighting C. making fires D. hunting,D,C,5. 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 ski
17、ns D. cotton 6. 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,C,C,7. What can we infer from the sentences- “This one looks very like a fish bone. Is it reasonable? -Yes indeed, as
18、 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
19、into a necklace.,Do you think it is important for us to know about Zhoukoudian Caves? Why?,Zhoukoudian Caves were formally inscribed (记入) on the “World Heritage List” in December 1987 at the eleventh session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee.,Discussion,The inscription of the Peking Man Site on the World Heritage List confirms the exceptional and universal value of the cultural site, which requires protection for the benefit of all humanity. The site is therefore not only of China, but also of the world as a whole.,Thank you!,