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Unit 2 Wildlife Protection
Reading and Thinking
--- A DAY IN THE CLOUDS
Look at the pictures on the textbook and guess what the text is about?
It is about Tibetan antelopes.
What do you know about them?
Activity1 .Prediction
Endangered animals;
Human actions to protect them are underway(Changtang National Nature Preserve)
1.What do you know about the Tibetan antelope ?
Pre-reading
Height: 75-85 cm
Weight: 30-60 kg
Average life: 8 years
Main habitat: live on the plains of Tibet,
Xinjiang and Qinghai
Illegal hunting
Environment destruction
The reason why their number decrease
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1. the rapid international demand for Tibetan antelope cashmere shahtoosh in the last decades of 20th century
2. for their meat and horns
The reason for illegal hunting
沙图什
藏羚羊角
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Tibetan antelopes
Changtang National Nature Reserve
Q: Guess what kind of passage it is.
A. Argumentation议论文
B. Exposition说明文
C. Narration记叙文
A DAY IN THE CLOUDS
Predicting
Read the first and the last paragraph and find out what type of the text it is.
an introduction
a report
a short novel
advertisement
a travel journal
what I see
what I learn
what I think
恩信实验
Activity 2. Skimming for the main idea and text type
The article mainly talks about what the writer saw, heard and thought about the _________