女娲造人课件2022-2023学年人教版八年级英语下册

女娲造人 Nuwa Creates Human Beings PanGu created heaven and earth, using his body to create the sun, moon and stars, mountains, rivers, plants and trees, breathing gas into the world. His breath created NuWa.She had a human body and a snake tail. She was very beautiful. NuWa played throughout the world. Although they are all animals, she always felt lonely. NuWa told the fish in the water that she was unhappy, but the fish could not understand her language,so she wanted someone who could talk and play with her. NuWa walked along the river and saw her beautiful shadow on the water.she was very happy. She decided to use the mud from the river to create people in her own image. NuWa skillfully made many mud people, but she found that they could not stand because of the snake's tail. NuWa decided to change the snake's tail into feet, by imitating her hands. Finally, the mud people stood up. They looked like NuWa. NuWa looked at the mud people and was very happy.She blew fairy air onto them and the mud people moved. She called them"human beings". Humans thanked NuWa for giving them life and left happily, but before long, they came back unhappy and asked NuWa where they should go. NuWa said,"Do not be afraid. Now you need to build your own dwellings, your own homes". NuWa took the people to an open space and had them build houses of wood and found lots of hay for them to sleep on. Human beings learned very quickly, not only to build houses, but also to find caves, to clear out stones, and to live in them themselves. NuWa also taughtthem to look for food after the sun rose and to rest after the sun set. One day, NuWa saw some humans lying still on the ground.She was surprised. These are the first human beings that she's created whose hair had turned white and they'd died. NuWa was very sad.She thought that if these people would become old and die.what was she to do. At this time,she found that rabbits could reproduce,and it occurred to her that human beings should also be abl