1. Reading
Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

2. What are they doing ? excavate collect primitive objects identify and
analyze

6. Who are they ?
Peking Man

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

9. Significance
Do you think it is important for us to know about them? Why?
Zhoukoudian Caves were formally inscribed (记入) on the “World Heritage List”世界文化遗产名录 in December 1987 at the eleventh session会议 of UNESCO联合国教科文组织 World Heritage Committee.

10. Reading

11. Skimming
Tell the 3 topics that the archaeologist talked about.

12. Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
Life in the cave
What we can learn from a needle
What we can learn from a necklace

13. II. Read the text carefully and choose the best answer.
1. Where do the caves lie?
2. How did early people make their clothes?
3. What do the earliest people and the modern people have in common?
4. What can we infer from the sentences …?

14. II. Read the text carefully and choose the best 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.

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.