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Reading II 广东 李岚 Animal Extinction

According to what you have learned before Please say something about dinosaurs? Key words: extinction,inspect, unexpected, incident, dust, according, disappearance, dodo,

Dinosaur is an animal that we can not see on the earth now. What we see in the museum are the fossils of many kinds of dinosaurs. They were found by the people at home and abroad. Some dinosaurs have long necks and tails, while others look like birds.

Using language Reading 1. When did dinosaurs live? Tens of millions of years ago. 2. When did dinosaurs die out? About 65 million years ago.

A large rock hit the earth and put too much dust into the air.. Listen to the tape and tell me: How did the dinosaurs die out? The earth got too hot to live on

True or false ( Read the lesson carefully,judge the sentence F or T) 1.There are many different species of dinosaur and all of them have been found in China. 2.Not long ago, a rare new species of bird-like dinosaur was discovered in Henan Province. several Liaoning F F

3. Some scientists are sure dinosaurs died out because the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live on any more. 4. Dinosaurs died out quickly about 65 million years ago and many animals have died out in the same way. F T think

dodo 渡渡鸟 Listening

DoDo 鸟是一种不会飞的鸟，仅产于毛里 求斯肥。拥有肥胖的身子和巨大的嘴。 16 世纪后期，欧洲殖民者来到了毛里求斯。 不会飞又跑不快的 DoDo 鸟很快成为欧洲人 来到岛上后主要的食物来源。人们开始大量 的滥捕滥杀可怜的 DoDo 鸟，有时每天可以 捕杀到几千只到上万只。 由于过度的捕杀, 很快岛上 DoDo 鸟便得越 来越少。 1681 年，最后一只 DoDo 鸟被残忍 的杀害后，从此，地球上再也见不到这种东 西了，除非是在博物馆的图片中。

Ex 3 Choose the sentence which gives the main idea of the story. Say what is wrong with the other three. Number 2 is correct. Number 1 is wrong. It is not fair to blame the dodo for his disappearance.

Number 3 only explain half the story. The dodo and man did become friends but only because man wanted to kill all the dodos as easily as possible. Number 4 is wrong because the other animals and birds did not do much to save the dodo. They warned him but did not help him.

The story of the dodo Once upon a time I lived on the island of Mauritius. I was called “ dodo ”. There were many of us and we were friends with all the other animals on the island. Listening text

One day a new animal came to my island. His name was Man, and at first we seemed to be good friends. We went everywhere together and I shared my food with him. However, I began to wonder why several of my dodo friends had disappeared. Then the number of our species began to decrease quickly.

I was so worried that I asked the other animals and they all told me, “Your friends are being killed and eaten by Man while you are hunting for food.” Had Man eaten them? I couldn’t believe it! When I asked Man directly, he seemed surprised. “I haven’t seen the other dodos either.” he said. “Maybe someone else killed them.”

I believed him but when more dodos disappeared I set a trap. I went off as if I was going to hunt but instead I hid in the forest and waited. Sure enough Man came along. He ran after the last of my dodo friends and killed her. I felt so angry that I rushed out of my hiding place and straight at Man’s spear.

He killed me too. After that there were no more dodos in the world. So my motto is :be careful who you trust.

Listen to the tape and choose the correct answer to complete each sentence. 1. The dodo is_____. A. fierce B. unkindfierce C. friendly D. foolish

2. He wants to believe that Man is telling the truth because _____. A. Man is friendly B. he think Man is friendly C. he thinks the bears and monkeys lie D. Man is his best friend

3. He didn’t realize who had killed many of his friends until _____. A. Man told him the truth B. the other birds told him C. he saw how his friend was being killed by Man D. the monkeys told him

Homework 1 Retell the story of dinosaurs 2 write a letter to WWF based on what you have discussing, asking them to help you save your endangered animals.

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