Now in groups of four tell about where your ancestors live.

2. Reading for forms

It is unlikely that you will understand 100 percent of the vocabulary in the text, especially at a first reading. Use first the context and then your own knowledge of the subject to help you guess the meaning of unknown words.

　　Read the text THE FEAST: 18,000 BC on page 43: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations.

3. Finding collocations and making sentences

Why do we learn collocations?

• Your language will be more natural and more easily understood.

• You will have alternative and richer ways of expressing yourself.

• It is easier for our brains to remember and use language in chunks or blocks rather than as single words.

　　Now read the text and find the collocations.

Collocations from THE FEAST: 18,000 BC be worried about... 担心......，turn for home with... 带着......回家了，the custom of family groups 家族成员的习俗， gather at different sites for reunions 在不同的地方相聚， follow... across... 跟随......越过......，if only... 但愿， a great honour to do... 非常荣幸做某事， feel proud 感到自豪， applaud one's choice 为某人的选择鼓掌， look ahead 有预见，feel worried 感到忧虑， accelerate one's walk up the path to... 沿着......的路走，in wait for... 在等......，reach one's destination 到达某人的目的地， a delicious smell 香味，arrest one's progress 阻止某人前进，fill the air 笼罩四周， become dizzy with hunger 因饥饿而头晕眼花， prepare...over the fire 把什么放在火上，be scooped up by... 被......舀了出来， smile with relief 宽慰的笑了， have a large long face 有一张又大又长的脸，with strongly pronounced eyebrows and cheekbones 浓眉大眼，颧骨突出， carry...over one's shoulder 肩膀上扛着，push...at... 把......递给某人，go outside... 走出，go to a corner of the cave走到洞穴的角落，pull out... 拖出， in a pile 一大堆，hit...hard on the edge 沿着边敲打......， now and then 不时的，cut up...切碎......， scrape the fish 刮鱼鳞，pass...to... 把......递给......，arrive for... 为......而来， smile to oneself 默默的笑，go out of... 走出......