1. Wujiang Experimental Middle School
Unit5 Wild Animals
Integrated Skills
Wujiang Experimental Middle School
By Xu Feng

2. Teaching aims and Demands
To identify specific characteristics, appearance, abilities, eating habits and danger in the context of animals.
To develop students’ ability to infer meaning from context and key words.
To learn more about the endangered animals and talk about how to protect them.
To listen and develop students’ ability to extract information in order to complete two fact sheets.

3. Step 1 warm up and lead in
In this unit, we have learned a lot about wild animals. Please guess what kind of animal it is according to descriptions.

5. Step 2 Presentation
Look at the pictures. They are tigers and wolves. Do you know anything about them? Please have a free talk about them in groups. Try to say something about their appearance, ability, character, food and the danger they meet.

6. Talk about the two animals in groups, Please start like this:
Tigers are the largest living cat in the world…..
Wolves are not very big and they have thick fur…..

7. Step3 Listening
Millie and Daniel want to help wild animals. They read a book about animals. Listen to the tape carefully and answer the following questions.
① What is the largest living cat in the world?
② What is Millie’s favourite animal?
③ Are wolves friendly animals?
④ What kind of food do wolves eat?

8. Tigers
Looks
big and strong
________ eyes
________ fur
with _______ stripes
Abilities
can ______ fast, but
only for a short while
able to _______ and climb
bright
orange
dark
run
swim

9. Tigers
Qualities
like to live _______
Food
animals
Danger
hunters catch tigers
for their fur, bones or
other parts of the body
alone

10. Wolves
Looks
not very _______
thick ________
Abilities
can see, hear and _____
things far away
can run for _______
without stopping
Qualities
often work as a team
never kill for _____
big
fur
smell
hours
fun

11. Wolves
Food
animals
sometimes _______
Danger
losing living areas
people kill wolves
because they think
wolves are dangerous
to humans
fruits

12. Step 4 Describe tigers and wolves
Let’s help Millie and Daniel to finish the letter with the information in Part A1 on page 63.

13. Dear Sir or Madam,
We are writing to tell you about some wild animals in danger.
Tigers are big and ______. They have very ______ eyes. Tigers like to live ______. There are not many tigers in the world now. Tigers are in danger because people catch them for their fur, _______ or other parts of the body.
strong
bright
alone
bones

14. Wolves are not very big. They can see, ______ and ______ things far away. They often work as a _____. Sadly, they have fewer and fewer living areas, and people kill them because they think wolves are __________ to humans. They are now in danger.
We think we should help these animals.
Yours sincerely
Millie Daniel
hear
smell
team
dangerous

15. Step 5 Speak up It’s a great pity!
We should help wild animals. They are our best friends. Millie is talking to her mum about how to protect wild animals. Are you interested in it? Let’s listen to their conversation and answer the questions.

16. Why are some wild animals in danger?
They lose their lives because people hunt them. People sell their fur, bones or other parts of the body.
What do they suggest to protect wild animals?
We shouldn’t buy fur coats any more.

17. Think and answer
Why are wild animals in danger?

18. They cannot find enough food.

19. The forest has been destroyed (被毁)
The forest has been destroyed (被毁). Their habitat (栖息地) is being threatened (受到威胁的).

20. They are killed by the environmental pollution (环境污染).

21. Human beings hunt them too much.

22. What do people kill them for?
fur
&
skin

23. tusk (象牙)
meat

24. What should we do to protect wild animals?
Not to over kill them.
Not to pollute our environment.
Not to over cut forests.
To collect money to help them.
To build nature reserves. …

25. What does WWF stand for?
World Wildlife Fund
世界野生生物基金会
The logo of WWF

26. protect endangered species and their habitats
World Wildlife Fund 世界野生生物基金会
protect endangered species and their habitats
works in more than 100 countries with nearly 5 million members

27. Step 6 Discussion How can we protect wild animals?
Make a conversation about protecting wild animals with your partner. Use the sample conversation as a model.

28. Sample conversation A: Jane, I think you should stop eating
shark’s fin soup.
B: Why? It tastes delicious.
A: Many sharks are killed because people
eat shark’s fin soup. I think it’s wrong
to eat it. Sharks have a right to live.
B: If I don’t eat it, someone else will eat it.
A: If everyone stops eating shark’s fin
soup, then hunters won’t kill sharks
any more.
B: Maybe you are right. OK, I’ll stop
eating shark’s fin soup.

29. Step 7 Summary
Let’s protect animals in danger. Please watch Yao Ming’s advertisement on protecting wild animals.

30. Are we human beings in danger?
Animals are in danger!
Forests are in danger!
Are we human beings in danger?
plants
animals
humans
harmonious
和谐的
情感教学：保护野生动物，人与自然和谐共处。

31. Wildlife (野生动物) is our friends. They can keep the balance of nature
and make the
whole world colorful.
To protect wildlife is
to protect ourselves.
情感教学：保护野生动物，人与自然和谐共处。

32. Step 8 Homework
Try to find some materials about wild animals. Then write a passage to tell people why we should protect them and how to protect them.