3 Tools have been found to cut and clean animal skins.

conclusion: So early people probably wore animal skins.

necklace 1 They cared about their appearance.

2 Some of the beads were made of animal bones.

conclusion: So early people killed, cut up and most probably ate animals.

3 Some of the beads were made of animal bones.

conclusion: So early people caught and probably ate fish in the nearly lake (as shown by botanical analyses).

4 Some of the beads were made of seashells.

conclusion: So early people may have travelled to the sea or traded with people who had seashells.

(2) Get Ss to write down the three stages of the archaeologist's part of the dialogue.

Suggested Answers:

Stage 1: Life in the cave

Stage 2: What we can learn from a needle

Stage 3: What we can learn from a necklace

Step 3. Intensive reading

Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text.

(1) Ask Ss to read the text carefully and try to get some details from the text. Work in pairs and try to tell which of the following statements are true and which are false and why.

① The archaeologists have only found human and animal bones.

② The archaeologists have been finding the bones of tigers and bears in the caves.

③ The needle they used was very useless.

④ Early people really care about their appearance.

Suggested Answers:

① F ② T ③ F ④ T

(2) Ask Ss to take the quiz below and according to the questions, see whether Ss can grasp the details of the text.

①Through the conversation, everything about our earliest people is mentioned EXCEPT______.

A. homes B. tools C. dress D. entertainment

② Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves kept themselves warm by ______.

A. working B. fighting C. making fires D. hunting

③Evidence has showed that the earliest people in the Caves used_______ to make clothes according to the conversation.

A. leaves B. tree skins C. animal skins D. cotton

④The main idea of the text is about the ___ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves.

A. life and habits 　　B. food and clothing　　

C. homes and fishing 　D. farming and hunting

⑤From the conversation we can infer that the earliest people in the Caves were very _____.