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1、 Unit 5 Reading A visit to the Zhoukoudian cavesA visit to the Zhoukoudian caves 灵台一中灵台一中 曹淑琴曹淑琴 REVISION Have a dictation of the wordsWho are they?TEACHING AIMS Understand archaeological evidence and knowledge Develop students reading ability&strategies.Skimming The text is about a group of student

2、s from _ paid a visit to the Zhoukoudian caves,from which they learned a lot about the _ of the early people living there.EnglandlifeRead the text quickly and complete its main idea.Listen&tell the 3 topics that the archaeologist talked about.Topic 1Topic 2Topic 3Life in the caveWhat we can learn fr

3、om a needleWhat we can learn from a necklace 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.ScanningHomesToolsDresscaves,perhaps with skins to keep out the coldscrapers,axe-heads,bone needlesanim

4、al skins sewn together with needles and thread,necklacesRelicsDescriptions of the relicsConclusions CavesHuman and animal bones,tools and ornaments in those caves.Early people lived in the caves.They used fire to keep warm,cook food and _ wild animals away.They might have kept the fire _ all winter.

5、scareburningCareful readingI.Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.RelicsDescriptions of the relicsConclusionsCavesFireplaces inthe centre of the caves_ of ash almost six metres thickNo doorsThey might have hung animal _ at the cave mouth to keep out the cold.Tigers and bears might have bee

6、n their most dangerous enemies.LayersskinsRelicsDescriptions of the relicsConclusionsA needle At most three centimetres longMade of _.Perhaps they cut animal skins andsewed the pieces together to make _.A necklace Made of animal bones and shells There was _ between them or they travelled to the _ on

7、 their journeys.boneclothestradeseaside1.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.II.Answer the

8、 following questions after a careful reading.2.Where did early people live?Early people lived in caves.3.How did early people keep warm?They used fur from animals for clothes and had fires burning all winter.4.What did they use for doors?The archaeologist thinks they may have used animal skins.5.Wha

9、t did they eat?They ate animal meat,such as tigers and bears,and fish from the lake nearby.They also picked fruit when it was ripe.6.What animals were their most dangerous enemies?Tigers and bears were their most dangerous enemies.7.What did the earliest people use fire for?They used fire to keep th

10、em warm,cook the food and scare the animals.8.Whats the main idea of the text?A brief introduction of the life and habits of the earliest people in Zhoukoudian.Work in groups of four.Imagine one of you is an archaeologist who is having a press conference(记者招待会记者招待会),and the others are journalists.Yo

11、u can ask the archaeologist any question about early people(Peking Man).Role-playAn archaeologist is showing a group of students from England around _,where some of the _ people lived.the Zhoukoudian cavesearliestPost readingFirst the archaeologist describes how early people lived in the caves.They

12、made _ to keep them warm,cook the food and _ wild beasts away as well.They might have kept the fire burning all winter and hung _ at the cave mouth to keep out the cold during the freezing winter._ were their most dangerous enemies.firesscareanimal skinsTigers and bearsThen the archaeologist shows t

13、he students a picture of a sewing needle.The needle which seems to be made of _ is at most three centimetres long.Early people could cut animal skins and sew the pieces together to make their own _.boneclothesLast of all the archaeologist shows them a primitive _.It is made of animal bones and _.At

14、that time early people cared about their _ and perhaps there was _ between early peoples or they travelled to the seaside on their journeys.necklaceshells/seashellsappearancetrade1.Go over the text.2.Write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Caves.3.Preview“the present perfect continuous tense”.