1. Unit 4, Module 2 Wildlife Protection Listening and Speaking

2. Listening on P62 Aunty Gladys is a writer for the teenager magazine Animals. She usually answers letters from the readers who worry about the wildlife around them. Listen to the three letters without stopping. Then listen to each one in turn and fill in the chart.

3. LetterNameProblem 1 2 Bengi 3 Li Kun He doesn’t know which fish he can eat. He can’t understand why man attacks and kills animals like him. Zhao Jing She doesn’t understand why the best animals and plants are kept in zoos and parks.

4. Listening task on P66 Hu Xiao is interviewing Alice Jones, a volunteer for the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC), about her work. 1. Look at the pictures and predict what the listening will be about. Then listen once all the way through and see if you were right.

5. 2. Listen to Part A again and then write down what is the most difficult part of the work according to Alice. It’s saving wild birds covered in oil.

6. 3. Go over the following passage guessing the meaning of the unknown words. Listen to Part A once more and fill in the blanks. Write one word for each blank.

7. Feathers are like _________ to keep out ____ _____. Oil that ______ on the water makes their feathers _____ ________ and makes the birds’ skin ___ ______. When birds try to remove the oil with their beaks, they ____ _____ ____ and ____ ______. raincoats cold water flows stick together get cold may eat oilgetsick

8. 4. Listen to Part B again and write down the two steps the IBRRC usually takes to help those birds. Step 1:____________________________ Step 2: ___________________________ We comfort the birds. We clean the birds.

9. Talking P62 Sample dialogue: S1: I would like to help Bengi. He sounds so kind and obviously needs a lot of help. S2: OK. I think it's a shame that animals like Bengi are forced to be violent in order to avoid humans.

10. The problem is that people are very unkind to tigers when they want something like their fur or their bones. S1: I agree. People should be more thoughtful. If Bengi hadn't written, we might have thought all tigers were violent.

11. So Bengi must try not to give people an excuse to attack him. S2: Yes, poor Bengi. He cannot win! If he attacks people, they will use that as an excuse to attack him. If he doesn't attack and is friendly to people, they will attack him anyway for his beautiful skin.

12. S1: We had better write and tell him to hide as much as possible. S2: Yes. And perhaps we can try to make people change their minds about tigers and learn to like them!

13. 1. Ideas to help Li Kun 1 give up eating fish 2 eat grass carp, big head and mackerel 3 eat species that are not endangered. 2. Ideas to help Bengi 1 keep away from people 2 if you see people, do not be too friendly or too fierce or he will attack you

14. 3. Ideas to help Zhao Jing 1 the animals are too fierce to be allowed to live freely 2 there are many pretty flowers in English gardens 3 join an organization to help them live / grow in the wild

15. Speaking on P66 1. What else threatens birds besides oil spills? Problems for BirdsPossible solutions from oil which collects on their feathers after oil spills make boat owners aware of their responsibilities to birds when they cause oil spills being hunted and killed for sport ban hunting of birds

16. Problems for BirdsPossible solutions being hunted for food refuse to shop in places that sell dead birds for food their food being poisoned by pesticides try to encourage organic food their eggs being stolen by collectors punish people found to have stolen or bought stolen eggs

17. 2. How can we help protect the birds? Problems for BirdsWays to protect birds from oil which collects on their feathers after oil spills punish those people who cause oil spills and put dirty oil into the seas or rivers being hunted and killed for sport punish people who kill birds for sport

18. Problems for BirdsWays to protect birds being hunted for food make laws to stop people eating birds for food their food being poisoned by pesticides stop farmers using so many pesticides on the fields their eggs being stolen by collectors make special protected areas for birds to lay eggs

19. 3. How can we help people understand the importance of protecting the environment so that birds can live in peace? 1. Telling people about the problem. It is possible that small boat owners do not know that they are responsible for most oil spills.

20. 2. Asking them to think how they can help to solve the problem. Perhaps they could buy only organic food rather than food grown using pesticides. Perhaps they could tell others to be more thoughtful about the environment.

21. 3. Asking the local government leaders to lead the way. Protect trees by reusing paper; allow wild plants to grow in some areas to encourage the insects and caterpillars that birds eat; protect local areas so birds cannot be hunted or killed. 4. Providing a bird-friendly area where birds can be observed but not hurt.

22. Sample dialogue: S1: How do you think we can protect birds? There seems little we can do in this area. S2: What about trying to persuade people not to kill birds? We can make posters and put them around our local area.

23. Perhaps the local government leaders will let us talk to people who like to hunt birds for sport. S1: Do you think that will be possible? S2: Well, it ’ s worth a try! S1: I know what my mum can do. She can try and buy organic food

24. from a good supermarket. Pesticides kill birds when they eat infected food, so if we buy organic food we know we are not poisoning the birds ’ food. S2: That ’ s a good idea! I ’ d also like to find an area where we could put bird nests so they can lay eggs in peace.

25. S1: Yes, that ’ s a good idea too. Perhaps we can write a letter to our local government leaders to stop them cutting down so many trees in our neighborhood. S2: Yes. How can the birds build nests without trees to put them in? S1: What a lot of ideas! Let ’ s hear what the others have to say...

26. 课堂练习答案 She has realized that she was in danger. I have to get dressed before 7:00 o’clock every morning. I will apply to that company for a job tomorrow. He no longer lives here. The issue is being paid attention to by the government now.

27. Assignment Finish a writing according to the speaking task that the students just did.