Unit5 More practice 课件 2023-2024学年牛津上海版英语八年级上册

2 Amazing things More practice * 5 Encyclopaedias Before you read A0 Think and answer What are these? How do we learn about lives of dinasours? fossil /ˈfɒs(ə)l/ Which animal is called the“living fossil”? panda giant rare /reə(r)/ animal endangered An adult panda usually weighs … kilograms.  50  100  150 Most of the pandas come from … Province.  Sichuan  Qinghai  Shanxi The weather there is … and ...  warm and dry  warm and wet  cold and wet Pandas usually eat …  meat  fruit  bamboo shoots     Before you read A1 Have a quiz What do you know about pandas? What do you think of pandas? Before you read A2 Think and say When reading about an endangered animal, what information do you want to know? home population appearance food behaviour life why endangered While you read B1 Read the passage and tick the information that is mentioned The giant panda The giant panda is an Asian animal. It is a large, black and white bear-like animal. It lives in the bamboo forests of south-western China. The giant panda has a chubby white body with black legs and a broad black band across its shoulders. It has a large round head, small black ears and a white face with a black patch around each eye. It has a short tail. Most giant pandas grow up to 1.8 metres long and weigh from 80 to 125 kilos. The giant panda is like a bear in shape and size and walks in the same slow, clumsy way. It can also stand up on its hind legs, like a bear. A female panda gives birth to one or two baby pandas a year. The giant panda mainly eats bamboo shoots, though it eats other plants as well. It can eat as much as 9 kilos of food a day. The giant panda is very rare and is protected by law in China. home population appearance food behaviour life why endangered  ×     × fore leg bamboo shoot actions to protect them Before you read B2 Read the passage and tick the corrct picture of giant panda  ? a broad black band across its shoulders. patch What feature do these cartoon pandas have in