内容正文:
Unit 2 Wildlife Protection
Period 2 Reading and Thinking (1)
——Learn about protecting endangered animals
When the buying stops, the killing can do.
blue whale
panda
African elephants
1. 通过阅读课文,获取、梳理文中有关藏羚羊生活现状和保护藏羚羊的措施等事实性信息;
2. 在阅读过程中,梳理本篇文章的结构和脉络,对文本进行分析和深度解读,学会推断文章的表面及隐含意义,提高信息理解能力和迁移能力;
3. 通过小组讨论,认识到野生动物保护的重要性和紧迫性,树立人类命运共同体意识。
学习目标
1.Look at the picture and discuss:
(1)What are these animals?
(2)What do you think the text is mainly about?
(3)What do you know about the Tibetan antelope and the Changtang National Nature Reserve?
Warming-up & Pre-reading
Para. 1:
(1)Why did the writer visit Tibet?
(2)Why did the writer describe the air, mountains, clouds and plain?
Read each paragraph and answer the questions:
To observe Tibetan antelopes.
To show the living environment of antelopes.
While-reading
1st reading
Para. 2:
(3)Why are antelopes being hunted illegally?
(4)Why did the writer refer to the beauty of antelopes?
They are being hunted for their valuable fur.
To show the cruelty of illegal hunting.
While-reading
1st reading
Paras 3-7:
(5)What’s the Changtang National Nature Reserve?
(6)What happened to the Tibetan antelopes in the 1980s and 1990s? Why?
It's a shelter for animals and plants. It was created to protect the wildlife that live there.
The antelope population dropped by more than 50%, as they were shot by hunters for profit.
While-reading
1st reading
Paras 3-7:
(7)What measures did people take?
(8)What’s the result of these measures?
(9)What’s the writer’s opinion about wildlife protection?
The authority placed them under national protection.
The volunteers watched over them day and night.
The bridges and gates were added to let them move easily and safely.
The antelope population has recovered slowly.
We must change the way we live.
While-reading
1st reading
1. Read the sentences below, and decide if each idea is the literal meaning (L) of the text or only implied (I) by the text.
_______ The Tibetan antelope lives hi