内容正文:
Expanding Your World
National Parks---
A Treasure House for Future Generations
Do you still remember Sarek National Park? Can you briefly introduce it?
What more national parks do you know about?
Lead-in
National Parks---
A Treasure House for Future Generations
Read the passage quickly and find which national parks are introduced in it.
Fast Reading
Yellowstone National Park
Serengeti National Park
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
The Sanjiangyuan National Park
Read the passage carefully and answer:
What’s the function of the first paragraph?
Why does each country take action to protect the national parks?
Careful Reading
Read the passage again, draw a mind map of the features of a national park, like its name, place, sights, ect and introduce the park to the class.
Place?
Time?
Sights?
Aims?
Features?
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Group 1, 5---Yellowstone
Group 2---Serengeti
Group 3,6---Great Barrier Reef
Group 4---Sanjiangyuan
Careful Reading
Share your mind maps in group and choose the best one to introduce the national park to the whole class.
Place:
Time:
Sights:
Aims:
in the western USA
in 1872
the beautiful mountains, rushing rivers, tall waterfalls, geysers, hot springs, rainbows, wildlife
to protect the natural features
the first national park in the world
Group Discussion and Presentation
Share your mind maps in group and choose the best one to introduce the national park to the whole class.
Place:
Time:
Sights:
Aims:
in Tanzania
in 1951
tall grass dotted with trees, wildebeests, zebras, lions, rhinoceroses, elephants and other rare creatures
to protect wildlife
Share your mind maps in group and choose the best one to introduce the national park to the whole class.
Place:
Time:
Sights:
Aims:
Features:
in Australia
in 1975
tropical wildlife; colorful reefs;
to protect the reef from overdevelopment and fishing
marine parks;
the largest structure in the world made by living creatures
Share your mind maps in group and choose the best one to introduce the nat