Food

Clothing

Step III Reading

1. Play the tape once, and ask the Ss what they have learned about Zhoukoudian Caves

2. Skimming (What is the text about? And three stages of the archaeologist's part of the dialogue: An archeologist is showing a group of students from England around the Zhoukoudian Caves and telling them something bout the caves.)

3. Scanning (Ask them to write down the three ways in which the life of early people differs from modern ones. Ask them to work in pairs and discuss the questions.

Finish Comprehending 2:

Homes: caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold.

Tools: scrapers, axe-heads, bone needles

Dress: animal skins sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces

4. Careful reading

Let the Ss read the passage again and show the three stages in the PPT after the students finish Comprehending 3:

Stage 1: Life in the cave

Stage 2: What we can learn from a needle