鲁教版九年级英语课件：Unit 11 What’s the highest mountain in the world （2份）

Unit 11 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Section B Lead in What’s your favorite animal? Why do you like it? Compare facts about these two animals. Use the language in the box to help you make sentences. — weighs 5,000 kilos —is 350 cm tall — eats 150 kilos of food a day Elephant — weighs 100 kilos — is 150 cm tall (standing on two legs) — eats 10 kilos of food a day panda Example sentence: This elephant weighs many times more than this panda. (200 cm taller/shorter, weigh much more/less, eat much more/less, eat many times more) 1b Listen and check (√)the numbers you hear. _____ 100 ______16 ______20 ______50 _____ 120 ______0.1 ______0.2 _____150 ∨ 1c Listen again and complete the sentences. 1. At birth , a baby panda is about _____to ______ kilos. 2. At birth, a baby panda is about ______cm long. 3. A baby panda is not black. It is _____ and it has no _______. 4. A panda can live up to _____to _____ years. 1d Take turns telling your classmates about pandas. A: A baby panda cannot see. B: An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda. 2b Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean:10, 12, 200, 2,000. Scanning 2c Scan the article again and write short answers to the questions. 1. What is Lin Wei’s job? 2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast? 3. What do adult pandas eat? 4. Why are pandas endangered? 5. What is one way of saving pandas? She is a panda keeper. Milk. Bamboo. Because there was less bamboo for the pandas. Planting more bamboo trees. 2d Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage. keepers prepare often illness forests children in cities endangered Chinese government planting more bamboo 3a Read the following words and phrases about whales. Put them in the correct place in the chart. Huge. Live in the sea. Eat small fish and other sea life. Sing songs and jump high out of the water. Humans catch… Whales parts … Rules … Stop… we protect them 3b Write a paragraph abou