cultural relics and historical sites, such as the ten thousand-li Great Wall, the Imperial Palace in Beijing, the Dunhuang Grottoes, and the Potala Palace in Lhasa. Last period, you were asked to prepare a talk about your region's cultural heritage. Now who'd like to give a talk to us?

A sample talk:

　　Shanxi is one of the birth places of Chinese civilizations with a long history and traditional culture. as early as one hundred million years ago, the ancesotrs of the Chinese lived in this region. Legend tells us that the Yellow Emperor, founder of the Chinese nation, once lived in Shanxi for a certain period. Today, many Neolithic sites from that period can still be seen across the province.

Most of the ancient structures in Shanxi were built before the Liao and Song Dynasties. so it is the reason why Shanxi is often called the "Chinese Ancient Architecture Museum", including the Buddhist wonder of the Yungang Grottoes in Datong City, the ancient city of Pingyao which was listed as a World Cultural Heritage site by UNESCO IN 1997, the oldest and tallest ancient wooden pagoda in China, the Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian County and the remote Shuanglin and Jinci Temples, which are well worth the protection. Of course, there are a number of natural magnificent and beautiful places that can also be seen in Shanxi. The most famous of them include Wutai Mountain with the longest and most prestigious history in the four most well-known Buddhist holy lands of China, the whistling rage of the Yellow River's Kettle Spout waterfalls (Hukou Waterfalls) and one of the Five Sacred Mountains in China - Mt Hengshan.

T: Excellent. Today we are going to learn about another Chinese Cultural Heritage - Zhoukoudian caves.

Step II Reading

Skimming

Ask the students to read the passage and do Activities 1 and 2.

T: In December 1929, a Chinese paleanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian,