第35-36/772期初一课件

作者：凌红珊

 

Best places to dig into China's past (P4-5)

 

I. Warm up

1. If you want to learn about the past, what do you do?

 

2. Do you have a way to record your own life?

 

 

II. Pre-reading

Predict (预测):

Read the title and subtitles.

What is this story about?

What are these “best places”?

 

 

III. While reading

Fast reading

1. What happened on March 31?

discovery n. 发现

come out  出现 出版

 

Careful reading

2. What do we know about the Sanxingdui Ruins site?

A. People first found it in 1986.

B. Some of its treasures are about 3,000 years old.

C. It is made up of about 500 sacrificial pits.

D. It shows that the Shu Kingdom was richer than other places.

 

3. The barns at the Jijiaocheng site show that _____.

A. the building style there hasn’t changed

B. ancient people lived in barns

C. ancient people there grew rice

D. rice doesn’t go bad easily

 

 

4.The writer uses Acheulean hand axes to _____.

A. talk about how to keep old things safe

B. show that ancient people moved a lot

C. give an example of the best tools in Asia

D. show that people invented axes about 6,000 years ago

 

5. How can the axes show that ancient people moved very often?

 

Further reading

These are other sites on the list. Search for information about them.

Which interests you? Why?

 

IV. Post reading

“Archaeology is a door to the past.”

What can we get from archaeology?

 

 

V. Words in use

Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.

surprise     another   close     store   difficult  

1. Would you like  _____ drink? 

2. Jojo is my  _____ friend. We often share secrets.

3. I have a _____ for you: We are moving to China!

4. It's _____ for our grandparents to use smartphones.

5. The barn can _____ a lot of rice.

 

Complete the sentences with the phrases in the box.

dig into   be like    come out      date back     be made of

1. What _____ the weather ________ in Chengdu?

2. The book will ________ this week.

3. It's best not to buy things ________ ivory (象牙).

4. These shoes  ________ thousands of years. 

5. I was 23 and I was really interested in ________ my family history. 

 

参考答案：

III. While reading

Fast reading

 

IV. Words in use

1. another

2. close

3. surprise

4. difficult

5. store

 

1. is, like

2. come out

3. made of

4. date back

5. digging into

 

 

 

Working like a dog (P6)

 

I. Warm up

1. Have you ever heard of Pompeii? Where is it?

2. What do you know about it?

 

 

II. Pre-reading

Predict (预测):

Read the title and guess what this passage is about.

 

 

III. While reading

Fast reading

1. Who is working like a dog?

2. What does “it” do?

 

 

Careful reading

3. What can we learn about the Archaeological Park of Pompeii from Paragraph 2?

A. A dog-like robot works at the park.

B. Many people died at the park in March.

C. People found a time capsule at the park.

D. A volcano covered the park in ash in 1748.

 

4. What does Spot use to find changes to the buildings?

A. Its imagination.

B. Its 3D scanner.

C. A drone.

D. A robot dog.

 

5. What does Zuchtriegel think of Spot?

A. It is a great help to the park.

B. It breaks things often.

C. It should move faster.

D. It brings safety problems.

 

6. What can we learn from the story?

A. Spot will repair damage to the buildings of Pompeii.

B. Protecting the park from damage is difficult.

C. A 3D-scanning drone will take Spot’s place.

D. Modern inventions make it easier to protect ancient buildings.

 

 

IV. Post-reading

Imagine that you work in the park of Pompeii. Please describe your day with Spot.

 

 

Further thinking:

What else can we do to protect ancient buildings?

 

 

V. Words in use

Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.

allow, keep, use, need, protect

1. ______ on moving and you will make your dream come true.

2. We ______ another three hours to finish painting this picture.

3. My parents ______ me to watch TV after school.

4. It’s our duty to ______ animals in danger.

5. He ______ a new method (方法) to work out the math problem.

 

Complete the sentences with the phrases in the box.

look for, in safety, thousands of, turn into, go through

1. Water can ________ ice in cold weather.

2. ________ doctors work day and night to help people in Shanghai.

3. After _________ a difficult time, I cherish (珍惜) what I have.

4. They crossed the road ________.

5. These elephants left their homes to _______ new ones.

 

 

 

参考答案：

II. While reading

Fast reading

1. A dog-like robot.

2. Help protect the archaeological site.

 

Careful reading

3. A。解析：本段第一句可知，Spot在公园里工作，而从下文又可知，Spot是一只机器狗。

6. D。解析：从文中最后两段可以推知，无论是机器狗还是无人机，都是现代科技发明，它们在帮助我们更高效地保护文物和古建。

 

IV. Words in use

1. Keep

2. need

3. allow

4. protect

5. used

 

1. turn into

2. Thousands of

3. going through

4. in safety

5. look for