Unit 4 Wild animals

Appearance: Ability: Favourite food: The best place they live in Problems: Fat but lovely, black eyes, black and white fur Can climb trees Bamboo shoots and leaves, water In the wild / forests It’s difficult for them to live in the wild. Getting fewer and fewer Step 1 Presentation

Step 2 New words 1.action 行动 take actions 采取行动 2. protect 保护 keep sb. safe from danger take actions to protect giant pandas 3. danger 危险 (1)Some giant pandas are in danger. (2)They are not out of danger. (3)be in danger 处于危险之中 (4)be out of danger 脱离危险

4. encourage 鼓励 encourage sb to do sth. Our teachers encourage us to study hard every day. 5. survive (1) 幸存，活下来，继续存在 In the accident of Titanic, only 700 people survived.

(2) 从 …… 中逃出 Wang Fang helped Mr. Sun out of the fire. Mr. Sun survived the fire. 在这场大火中孙先生幸免于难。 6. reserve 自然保护区 special areas for wild animals 7.alive 活着的 With our support,about 1,500 giant pandas are still alive. be alive 活着的

Step 3 Can you help me? 1.keep someone/something safe from danger 2.thick hair of animals 3.support 4.giant pandas’ favourite food 5.large areas of land with trees 6.special areas for wild animals 7. stay alive a.bamboo shoots b.survive c.fur d.forests e.protect f.reserves g.encourage

Wo Long reserve Step 4 Presentation

True or false 1.Baby giant pandas are very small when they are born. 2. They grow very quickly. 3.Xi Wang has to find her own food when she is 20 months old. 4.Hunters kill giant pandas and sell their fur.

Questions 1.At birth, how much did it weigh? 2. What did she look like when she was 10 days old? 3.When she was 4 months old,how heavy was she? what did she start to do? 4.When did she start to eat bamboo shoots and leaves? 5. (1)Before this, what did she live on? (2)How long did she drink her mother’s milk a day? 6. How heavy was she when she was one year old? 7.At the age of 20 months, what did she have to do? Why?

Question 1 At birth, how much did it weigh? 100 grams.

Question 2 What did she look like when she was 10 days old? A white mouse.

Question 3 When she was 4 months old how heavy was she? What did she start to do? 10 kilograms, started to go outside her home for the first time.

Question 4 When did she start to eat bamboo shoots and leaves? At six months.

Question 5 (1)Before this, what did she live on? Her mother’s milk. (2)How long did she drink her mother’s milk a day? For up to 14 hours a day.

Question 6 How heavy was she when she was one year old? 35 kilograms

Question 7 (1)At the age of 20 months old, what did she have to do? Look after herself. (2)Why? Her mother had another baby.

1 day 10 days 4 months 6 months 12 months20 months 100 gramslike a white mouse10 Kg, go outside stop drinking … start to eat… a healthy young baby, 35Kg look after herself

At birthXi Wang weighed about grams. At 10 daysMillie first the panda. At 4 monthsShe weighed about kilograms and Started to go outside. At 12 monthsShe was a small. At 20 monthsShe had to herself. 100 sawbaby 10 notbabyanymore lookafter

Which problems may XiWang have? (1)If hunters catch a giant panda,________________________. (2)If farmers cut down trees and forests,____________________________. (3)Mother often leave baby pandas for 2 whole days alone. If people find baby pandas alone,____________________________. they will kill it for its fur giant pandas will have nowhere to live they will often take them away

What can we do? (1)make giant panda reserves bigger. (2)build more reserves. (3)encourage farmers to leave the giant panda reserves.

Giant pandas are in _________. We must help them__________. Hunters should not kill giant pandas for their __________. Farmers should not work in panda __________. People should not take baby pandas away. This is not _________ because baby pandas need to stay in the __________ with their mothers. danger fur helpful reserves survive wild danger survive fur reserves helpful wild

Homework Recite the passage. Class is over! Goodbye! Thank you!