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Unit 2 Reading for Writing
The Amazing Animals Of Australia
kangaroo
Tasmanian devil
koala
duck–billed platypus
1. To learn some amazing animals of Australia.
2. To learn how to describe an iconic animal.
3. To learn to use rhetorical devices(修辞手法) to arouse readers’
interest in your writing.
4. To write a description of an iconic animal in China.
Learning Aims
Read the four parts then finish the mind map of each animal
Appearance:
Uniqueness:
Relationship with others:
Babies:
look cute
cannot walk backwards
baby kangaroos weigh 2g. ,stay
safe and warm in mother’s pouch.
not for petting
Coala
Appearance:
uniqueness:
Relationship with others:
Others:
cute but sensitive
eating, sleeping and
hanging
stress
government began to make laws against touching koalas.
Read the four parts then finish the mind map of each animal
Tasmanian devil
Appearance:
Uniqueness:
Relationship with others:
diet:
about the size of small dogs and look like rather large black rats.
the noise they make could wake the dead.
not violent towards
people
mostly dead animals
Read the four parts then finish the mind map of each animal
Duck-billed
platypus
Appearance:
uniqueness:
Others:
nose and feet like a duck’s
lay eggs in a nest but is a primitive mammal, with a unique biology
can dive under the water; use electrical sensors to find food.
Read the four parts then finish the mind map of each animal
How does the writer describe these animals?
Find at least three rhetorical decives(修辞手法) the writer uses to arouse the readers' interest.
1. This expresses the strength and resolve of the Australians as individuals and as a nation.(Part 1)
2. They are about the size of small dogs and look like rather large black rats.(Part 3)
3. The noise they make could wake the dead. (Part 3)
4. While it may lay eggs in a nest like a bird, it 's really a primitive mammal, with a unique biology. (Part 4)
(me