Unit 5 Meeting your ancestorsUnit 5 Meeting your ancestors

Who are the people in the pictures and What are they doing ?

excavate cultural objectscollect

identify and analyze

Who are they ?Peking ManPeking Man

Peking Man SiteOne of the most significant archaeological finds in 20th century

Peking ManPeking Man

Place for livingPlace for living

FurnitureFurniture

EntertainmentEntertainment

FoodFood

ClothingClothing

cavecave

a fireplacea fireplace

meals together, hunting, meals together, hunting, talkingtalking

meat, fish, berries and meat, fish, berries and fruit in seasonfruit in season

skins, leavesskins, leaves

Scan to write down the three topics of the dialogue.

TopicTopic 1: 1:

TopicTopic 2: 2:

TopicTopic 3: 3:

Life in the caveLife in the cave

the needlethe needle

the necklacethe necklace

Learning tips:

Pay attention to the pictures.

Read the text carefully and choose the best Read the text carefully and choose the best

answer.answer.

1. 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.

2. Which of the following is the correct order about how early people made clothes?

a. clean the fat and meat from the skin b. cut up the animals c. rub salt inside 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

3. 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 cold

B. People never grew their own crops

C. People use science

D. People care about their appearance

4. What can we infer from the sentences--- “This one looks very like a fish bone. Is it 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.

A group of students came to Zhoukoudian for a ____.An archaeologist showed them around. He told them it was here that they found _____ of the earliest people who lived in this ______of the world, and it was reasonable to ____they had lived in these caves, regardless of the cold. We had discovered ________ in the center of the bones of tigers and bears. It seemed that they might have use______ stone tools to cut___the animal and _____their skin to sew the pieces together. Maybe there was _____between early people. They didn’____their own crops, but picked fruit and killed animals.

visit

evidencepart

assumefireplaces

sharpened upremove

trade grow

Conclusion (Tips for reading):

1.Read the title and the headings first.

2. Try to find related words in the question and then read the relevant part.

3. If you can’t tell which part to focus on from the question, read the choices and find related words (in multiple choice).

Work in groups of four. Imagine one of you is an archaeologist who is having a press conference( 记者招待会 ), and the others are journalists. You can ask the archaeologist any question about early people (Peking Man).

Role-play

Being polite:Being polite:

You must be aware that…You must be aware that…

I’m sorry to interrupt you I’m sorry to interrupt you but..but..

Ways to explain things: Ways to explain things:

We think it is reasonable to We think it is reasonable to assume…assume…

We think they might…We think they might…

We have been excavating… We have been excavating… We have been finding…We have been finding…

It seems…It seems…

Our evidence suggests…Our evidence suggests…

As the botanical analyses have As the botanical analyses have been specially showing us…been specially showing us…

Perhaps…Perhaps…

Useful sentence patternUseful sentence pattern

写作训练：请你用 5 句话介绍北京猿人。[ 写作内容 ]

1. 北京人生活在 70 万年 --20 万年前， 而北京猿人的化石 ( fossil) 首次发现于 1927 年。2. 北京猿人能够制造和使用劳动工具，3. 能用天然火取暖、熟食和吓退野兽 。4. 生活艰苦，寿命比较短暂。5. 他们群居在洞穴中，以狩猎为生。

[ 写作要求 ]1. 只能使用 5 个句子表达全部内容 ;2. 介绍必须包括所有要点。

WritingWriting

Beijing ape-manBeijing ape-man

Beijing ape-man lived about 700 ,000 - 200 ,000 years ago, whose fossils were first discovered in 1927. They were able to make and use labor tools .They lived a hard life in caves in groups by hunting. They used natural fire to keep warm, cook food and scare beasts away. They lived a short life.

Learning about languageEx1: excavation, identify, aware, ample, regardless of, primitive, sharpened alternative , assumed, due

Ex2:1.regardless of 2.In spite of 3. because of 4.ahead of 5. on behalf of 6. instead of

Ex3: 1. starvation 2 .analysis, acute 3. messy, categories 4. cutting up 5. at most 6. centimetre

1. alternative n. 替换物 / 可能的选择 adj. 供选择的

有几种方案可以代替我们的计划。There are some alternatives to our plan.

他别无选择 , 只好一个人去那儿。He had no alternative but to go there alone.

2. You must be aware that it's here that we found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this

part of the world. • 走了很长的路 , 你一定很饿。

You must be hungry after a long walk ．

灯亮着 , 他一定正在做作业。 The light is on. He must be doing his

homework now ． 地是湿的 , 昨晚一定下雨了。 The ground is wet. It must have rained last

night.

对现在的情况表示肯定猜测 , 用 “ must + do”

对现在正发生的事表示肯定猜测，用 “ must + be + doing”

对过去发生的事表示肯定猜测，用“ must +have + done”

３ . I’m sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here? 很抱歉打扰你 , 我想问问他们是怎么在这里生活的？

句型“ I’m sorry...but...” 是口语中委婉的表达 , “but” 表示语义上的转折。 — Are you free this weekend? — I’m sorry, but l have lots of work to do ． --- 周末有空吗 ? --- 对不起 , 我有大量的事要做。

2) 打岔 ; 插嘴 It is rude to interrupt.

interrupt

1) 阻断 , 中断　 Don’t interrupt him, for he hasn’t

finished yet.

４ . So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold ．

因此我们有理由认为他们不顾寒冷住在这些洞穴里。 assume vt.

1) 假定； 设想 The scientists assume that there are

some animals in the outer space ． 科学家设想外太空上有动物。2) to pretend 装作 She assumed a look of surprise ． 她装出一副吃惊的样子。

regardless of

1) prep.不管 ; 不顾 不管有多危险 , 他还是爬上了大厦。 He climbed the building, regardless of the

danger ．尽管以前我们失败过 , 但仍要坚持下去。We will persevere regardless of past failures.

5. cut up 切碎 cut down 砍倒 cut in 插话 The farmer ________ the tall tree and then

____it____ into pieces.

It’s not polite to _______ when we are talking.

cut down

cut up

cut in

6. Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses

have shown us, all the fields around

here used to be part of a large shallow

lake ． 确实 , 正如植物学分析显示给我们的

那样 , 附近所有的土地都曾是大型浅湖的一部分。

as 引导的非限制性定语从句常译作“正如 —— 那样”。

As the proverb goes, “The enemy in

disguise is just like the wolf in sheep’s

clothing.”

正如谚语所说的那样 , 伪装的敌人就像是披着羊皮的狼。