Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world Section B 2a-2e课件 2024-2025学年人教版（2012）八年级英语下册

Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? 1. To read and understand the passage on pandas. 2. To learn to scan for specific information when reading. 3. To be able to think out a way to save the pandas. 0 What do you know about me? Appearance (外貌) Food Living place Situation (现状) big black and white cute beautiful bamboo zoos Sichuan forests popular famous endangered What do you know about this place? It is Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. It’s in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. And Chengdu is the hometown of the giant pandas in China. People set up the base to protect and raise pandas. How much do you know about pandas? Use these words to help you. big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect Pandas are … Pandas like eating ... Pandas live in … Pandas are becoming … The reasons for fewer pandas. Skim the article and match the main idea with each paragraph. The ways of saving pandas. Lin Wei’s job. The panda keepers take care of pandas. The panda keepers take care of pandas. Lin Wei’s job. The reasons for fewer pandas. The ways of saving pandas. Read the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10，12，300，2,000. Scanning(寻读) This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information. What do these numbers mean? Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the forests. Another 700 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. 10 12 700 2,000 8 pandas Baby pandas Amount of food Number of pandas Ways to protect pandas Only _________________ Babies often die from _________. 10 _____________ a day 2,000 _________________ 700 or so ______________________ Teach __________. Tell them about the ____________ of saving pandas. Scientists are doing research to better ______________________________. one every two years  illnesses  kilos of bamboo  in the forests  in zoos or research centers  children  importance  understand the habits of pandas  Read the article carefully and complete the chart. 9 Read the article again and write short answers to the questions. 1. What is Lin Wei’s job? 2. What do the baby pandas have for breakfast? Lin Wei is a panda keeper. Baby pandas drink milk for breakfast. 3. Why are pandas endangered? Pandas are endangered because they do not have many babies, and the babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. As the forests get smaller and other human activities cause more problems, pandas cannot find enough to eat and they are having fewer babies. 4. What does the education program in Chengdu do? It sends people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving pandas and other endangered wild animals. 5. Why are scientists doing research? To better understand the habits of pandas. Complete the sentences using words from the passage. 1. The panda _______ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake early in the morning to _______ breakfast for the baby pandas. 2. In _______, pandas have become so _________ that they are now a symbol of China. keepers prepare fact popular 3. Adult pandas do not have babies very ________, and some of the babies only live for a short time because of ________. 4. A special program in Chengdu teaches __________ about why pandas are _______________________. often illnesses children endangered (animals) 5. The Chinese government is helping to _________ the pandas. Scientists also want to better __________ the habits of pandas. save understand What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas? 1. Learn more about pandas. 2. Raise money to build more nature reserves (自然保护区). 3. Clean up bamboo forest to make the environment more conductive (多产的) for the pandas. 4. … __________________ 为……准备…… __________________ 跑上前去；跑过去 __________________ 走路时撞着 __________________ 绊倒 __________________ 照顾；处理 __________________ 大约 __________________ 确切地说；事实上；实际上 prepare ... for ... run over walk into fall over take care of or so in fact _____________________ 全世界 _____________________ 死于 _____________________ 中国的象征 _____________________ 砍倒 _____________________ 派……到…… _____________________ 做研究 _____________________ 将来 around the world die from a symbol of China cut down send ... to ... do research in the future Ⅰ. 根据语境及括号内所给单词的提示填空。 1. The umbrella gives me __________(protect) from the rain. 2. Some children find it difficult to talk to __________(adult). 3. Kevin didn't go to school last week because of __________ (ill). 4. My uncle found a job as a monkey __________(keep) in the zoo. 5. Mr. Smith is __________(research) classroom group work these days. protection adults illness keeper researching 1. My father was still _________ when I went to bed. 2. A panda can eat about 10 kilos of _________ a day. 3. If you want _________, you should try parachuting. 4. The little boy with _________ glasses looks so funny. 5. Tony is interested in taking photos of _________ flowers. 6. Our teacher told us that ________ does not mix with water. 7. This piece of meat _________ 2 kilos and I paid 50 yuan for it. awake bamboo excitement Ⅱ. 根据语境，从方框中选择恰当的单词填空，注意形式变 化。每词限用一次。 excite, wild, oil, huge, bamboo, weigh, awake huge wild oil weighed 1. The little girl _______ _______(绊倒) and hit her head. 2. This baby giraffe was about 1.8 m tall _______ _______ (出生时). 3. _______ _______(不多于) twelve students joined the chess club last term. 4. I hung out with my friends for an hour _______ _______ (大约) yesterday afternoon. 5. If you use your phone while walking, you may _______ _______(走路时撞着) others. fell over at birth Ⅲ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示，写出所缺内容，每空一词。 Up to or so walk into I can read and understand the passage on pandas. scan for specific information when reading. think out a way to save the pandas. Preview the other parts of Section B. Write your ways of helping to save the pandas in about 80 words. $$