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Unit 5 Wild animals
Reading
Today's Reciting Star
Warming up
What do you know about giant pandas?
What do pandas look like?
What do pandas usually eat?
Where do pandas live?
Are there many pandas in the world?
Free talk
What do pandas look like?
fat
black and white fur
look like a bear
lovely
bamboo leaves
bamboo shoots
What do pandas usually eat?
Where do pandas live?
reserve 自然保护区
forest 森林
Do you want to learn more about giant pandas?
A report about giant pandas
While-reading
Presentation
1. What is the name of the panda?
What does it mean?
2. What will happen to giant pandas
if we do nothing?
Its name is Xi Wang. It means ‘hope’.
There may be none left.
Skimming
Match the part with the main idea
The growth of Xi Wang
The problems Xi Wang may have in the future
The actions we can take to protect the giant pandas
Part 1: Para. ______
Part 2: Para. ______
Part 3: Para. ______
1-3
4
5-6
Scanning
Part1(Para.1-3): The growth of Pandas
Age Weight More information
at birth (1 day)
4 months
6 months /
8 months
20 months /
100g
8kg
35kg
drink mothers’ milk
look like white mice
start to go outside
start to eat bamboo
grow into young giant pandas
learn to look after themselves
Read and complete
4 months
1 day
10 days
6 months
12 months
20 months
Memory Challenge
Describe the growth of Xi Wang
Activity
What problems may Xi Wang have if she lives in the wild?
Part2(Para.4):
The problems Xi Wang may have in the future
It’s ______ for pandas to have ______, and many baby pandas ____ when they are very _____.
Giant pandas mainly _______ a special kind of bamboo. However, the are becoming ______ and ______.
smaller smaller
live on
bamboo forests
difficult
babies
die
young
Read and complete
1. help pandas have more babies
2. build more new panda reserves
3. make laws to protect pandas
Problems
1. difficult to have baby
2. no place to live or food to eat
Actions
Part3(Para.5-6):
The actions we can take to protect the giant pandas
Read and answer
What other problems may pandas have ?
Discussion
Not only pandas but also many other wild animals are in danger.
What actions can we take to protect wild animals?
We can't ...
We can ...
Further thinking
1. build more reserves
2. tell other people to protect wild animals
3. make some laws to protect them
4. keep the world clean…
We can ...
We can't ...
1. cut down the trees
2. kill them for their fur or meat
3. throw rubbish in the reverses…
4. buy the clothes made of animal fur.
Why did the writer write the report?
A. To tell us the growth of Xi Wang
B. To tell us the problems that pandas face
C. To ask us to take action to protect pandas.
D. To tell us the growth of Xi Wang and the problem she faces
Thinking
1. Retell the passage;
2. Finish the exercises.
Homework
1. 出生
2. 看起来像白鼠
3. 在四个月大时
4. 第一次开始外出
5. 不再
6. 开始,起初
7. 开始吃竹子
8. 学着照顾自己
9. 面临严重的问题
10. 孕育幼崽
1. be born
2. look like a white mouse
3. at four months old
4. start to go outside for the first time
5. not… any more/no more
6. in the beginning/at first
7. begin to eat bamboo
8. learn to look after oneself
9. face serious problems
10. have babies
11. 主要以一种特殊竹子为生
12. 变得越来越小
13. 因此
14. 有地方居住
15. 处于危险中
16. 采取行动
17. 立刻,马上
18. 建更多的熊猫保护区
19. 制定法律来保护熊猫
20. 一个不剩
11. live mainly on a special bamboo
12. become smaller and smaller
13. as a result
14. have a place to live
15. be in danger
16. take action
17. right away/right now/at once
18. build more panda reserves
19. make laws to protect pandas
20. none left
P60 B3
Millie is telling Amy about the serious problems that giant pandas are facing. Complete what she says with the words in the box.
as a result in danger
in the wild live on
take action very young
Practice
We need to do something for giant pandas. They’re now _________. For example, giant pandas do not have many babies during their lives, and it’s easy for baby pandas to get sick and die when they’re ___________. Also, giant pandas mainly ___________ a special kind of bamboo, so the bamboo forests are very important to them.
in danger
very young
live on
However, the bamboo forests are becoming smaller and smaller. __________, giant pandas may not have a place to live or food to eat. There are now only about 1,600 pandas ___________. We should ___________ to protect them right away.
in the wild
As a result
take action
P60 B4 Millie’s classmates are asking her some questions about Xi Wang. Help Millie answer their questions.
Kitty: What did Xi Wang eat when she was born?
Millie: She ______________________ in the beginning, but half a year later, she began to __________.
Simon: Did Xi Wang grow very quickly after she was born?
drank her mother’s milk
eat bamboo
Millie: Yes. She weighed only _________ at birth, but she weighed over _____________ when she was one year old.
Sandy: Is it easy for giant pandas to live in the wild?
Millie: No, it isn’t. They face ________________.
Daniel: So what should we do?
100 grams
35 kilograms
serious problems
Millie: We should help pandas ____________________, build more _______________ and _________ to protect them.
have more babies
panda reserves
make laws
I. 根据所给汉语意思或英文解释写单词。
1. By ____ (法律), children can’t buy cigarettes (香烟) in any shop.
2. To the baby tiger, losing his parents ______ (意味着) losing his life.
3. As we grow up, we may ____ (面对) different kinds of problems.
4. There is nothing ______ (bad or dangerous). Don’t worry.
5. “He’s gone away for six months,” she said _____ (伤心地).
law
means
face
serious
sadly
Exercises
II. 用所给单词的适当形式填空。
People in the area ______ (main) grow rice and wheat on farms.
2. There is little time ____ (leave). We have to be quick.
3. We planned to have a picnic. But ____(sad), it kept raining for the whole morning.
4. At the _________ (begin) of the movie, Kungfu Panda was both lazy and fat. But he never stopped dreaming.
mainly
left
sadly
beginning
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