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SectionA 3a-3b
Unit 13
We’re trying to save the earth!
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AIMS
To learn to use some words and expressions.
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To understand the passage about endangered animals -- sharks.
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To practice reading skills.
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Warming up
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The ocean is beautiful because of the diversity (多样性) of life.
Warming up
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Warming up
What is the king of the sea?
Dangerous.
No predators.
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Warming up
Many people think that sharks are too strong to be endangered.
However
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Reading
Scan the whole passage, match the main ideas of each paragraph.
How to save the sharks.
Sharks are endangered now.
Talk about shark fin soups.
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
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Reading
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Read and finish the blanks on your book.
★Where shark fin soup is popular:
___________________________________________
★Number of sharks caught and traded every year: ___________________________________________
★How governments can help:
___________________________________________
★Two environmental groups against “finning”: ___________________________________________
In southern China
Around 70 million
To develop laws to stop the sale of shark fins
WildAid and WWF
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Reading
Read the first paragraph and answer the questions.
Para.1
1. What is shark fin soup made of?
2. What do you know about this dish?
3.What does it mean to enjoy a bowl of shark fin soup?
It is made of shark fins.
Famous, expensive and pupular.
It means that you're killing a whole shark.
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Reading
Read the second paragraph and answer the questions.
Para.2
Q1:How do people get shark fins?
catch
cut off
throw back
Q2:What will happen if sharks don't have
their fins?
die
Q3:Why does it do harm to the environment?
Sharks are _____________the food chain in the ocean's ecosystem.
If their _________ drop too low,
it will ______________all ocean life.
at the top of
numbers
bring danger to
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Reading
Tell true (T) or false (F).
1.People cut off shark’s fins and throw the
sharks back into the ocean.
2.Sharks will be well without thei