Lesson 17 Save The Tigers 课件2022-2023学年冀教版八年级下册

Animals Are Our Friends UNIT 3 Boys and girls, have you mastered all the words, phrases and sentence patterns you learned in the last lesson? Now let's check it out. Click on the audio below to start the dictation. Lesson 17 Save the Tigers 3 To know the urgency of protecting tigers To use the following words and expressions correctly: century, courage, brave, reason, kill, cut, at the beginning of…, drop to, food chain, in balance, in danger, cut down, as well Objectives Goal Where can you usually see a tiger? Do you think tigers need our help? Why or why not? Video Think About It ! What can you learn from the picture? What should we do to save tigers? Learning Tip There are currently six types of tigers: the Bengal tiger, the Siberian tiger, the Sumatran tiger, the Malayan tiger, the Indochinese tiger and the South China tiger. Text 7 Learning Tip Animals in danger Words and Expressions century fur symbol courage brave chain n. 世纪 n. （兽类的）毛 n. 标志，象征 n. 勇气，胆量 adj. 勇敢的，无畏的 n. 链子；链条 Vocabulary balance reason disappear kill cut decrease n. 平衡，平稳 n. 原因，动机，理由 v. 消失，失踪 v. 杀死 v. 砍，切，剪，割 v. 使……变小；减少 Words and Expressions Vocabulary New Words They haven't got much fur yet. New Words The firemen showed great courage in firefighting. They are brave. New Words The shark is at the top of the sea food chain. New Words If the stones are not in balance, they will fall. Read the text and answer the following questions. 1. How many tigers were there at the beginning of the 20th century? 2. How many tigers are there in the wild today? 3. Where do tigers live? They live in the forests of Asia. Around 100 000. The number has dropped to a few thousand. Reading Learn the Lesson “Save the tigers ” is a group of volunteers . These volunteers hope to save the tigers of the world . At the beginning of the 20th century，the number of tigers in the wild was around 100 000 . But today that number has dropped to a few thousand . Sa