1. Revision
Scientist study the development of animal life.
2. When did the novel come out?
3. The children pressed snow hard to make snowballs.
4. As soon as he got his new football shoes he threw away the old ones.
5. They’re different in form but not in meaning.

2. Paper Lesson 78: Tortoise-shell Paper made from silk Pottery
Copper vessel
A book
Confucius

3. Lesson78 Paper Listen to the record of the text.
1. The text is mainly about ____.
the invention
B. the making of paper
C. the kind of paper
D. the his tory of the development of paper

4. 1）People all over the world have been
making paper for two thousand years．
2）As a result of the invention of paper，
the Chinese people could know a lot
about the history in other parts of the
world．
3）As there was no paper，much of the
history over hundreds of years is
completely unknown in many parts of
the world． F F T

5. 4）Before writing was developed,people
in China had no way to keep records．
5）From the text we know that writing
was developed in the third century BC．
6）Books of pieces of bamboo or wood
tied together were difficult to read
and heavy to carry． F F T

6. 7）Paper made from silk was easy to
write and draw on,but very expensive．
8）Paper made from the fibres of plants
was soft and light and is less expensive
than silk．
9）By the first century the making of
paper had reached other countries．
10）Spain started making paper earlier than the Middle East． T T F F

7. 2. Which is the proper order of the ways the chinese people kept records in history?
Carving words on animal bones
b. Putting stones together
c.writing on pieces of bamboo or wood
d. Carving words on metal pots
A. cabd B. bcad C. badc D. adbc

8. Fill in the blanks with proper words:
It is believed that before writing was developed, people in
China used to keep records by putting a number of ______
together. As soon as writing was developed, people carved
words on ______ ______. Later, words were carved on
_______ ____. Between the second and the fifth _________
people wrote on pieces of _______ or ______ and these
were ____ ________ to form a book. At the same time,
another kind of paper was made from ____. Because it was
_________, people invented another kind of paper made
from the ______ of ______. They used ________ ____, the
outside of _____, pieces of ____ _______ and so on. This
kind of paper was as _____ and ______ as silk but much
_____ expensive for everyday use.
stones
animal bones
centuries
metal pots
bamboo wood
tied together
silk
expensive
fibres plants
fishing nets
trees
old clothes
soft light
less

9. Read the passage and try to give the general idea of each part:
Paper-great invention in China;
Ways of recording information before paper;
Part 2:
Part3:
How paper was invented;
Paper in other parts of the world;
Part 4:

10. Language points:

11. Finish exercise3 in the workbook.
Homework
Finish exercise3 in the workbook.