1. Unit 4 Wild animals
Reading

2. Wild animals

3. How can they survive ? fur thick hunter nowhere In danger
as few as 1,000
take actions
protect

4. Wolong reserve encourage Pandas’ ideal home Wolong Mountain
a good place to live
Wolong reserve
encourage
Pandas’ ideal home

5. bamboo leaves
bamboos
bamboo forest
bamboo shoots

6. Xi Wang
ten days

7. Listen and answer: 1. What’s the story about?
2. What will happen to giant pandas if we do nothing?
It’s about a giant panda.
There will be no more giant pandas in the world .

8. Questions: 1. How old was the baby panda when the
writer first saw her? What did she look like?
2. What did we call her? What does it mean?
3. How much did Xi Wang weigh at birth?
4. How long did she drink her mother’s milk
at the very beginning?
5. When did she start to eat bamboo shoots
and leaves?
6. Why did she have to look after herself
when she was 20 months old?

9. Give the right answers:
1. How old was the baby panda when the writer first saw her? What did she look like?
She looked like a white mouse.
She was only ten days old.
2. What did we call her? What does it mean?
We called her Xi Wang.
It means “hope”.
3. How much did Xi Wang weigh at birth?
She weighed just 100 grams.

10. 4. How long did she drink her mother’s milk at the very beginning?
5. When did she start to eat bamboo shoots and leaves?
6. Why did she have to look after herself when she was 20 months old?
For up to 14 hours a day.
When she was six months old.
Because her mother had another baby.

11. Find the main ideas: Paragraph 1: sth about Xi Wang Paragraph 2-3:
the growth of Xi Wang
Paragraph 4-6:
the problem of pandas
Paragraph 7-8:
take actions to protect pandas

12. Word match: survive fur bamboo shoots forests protect encourage
reserves
stay alive
giant panda’s favourite food
thick hair of animals
keep ··· safe from danger
large areas of land with trees
special areas for wild animals
support

13. a. She started to look after herself. c
1 day days months b d
6 months
a. She started to look after herself.
b. She was about 10 kilograms and started to go outside her home.
c. She looked like a white mouse.
d. She began to eat bamboo shoots and leaves.
e. She weighed 100 grams.
f. She weighed 35 kilograms. f
12 months a
20 months

14. Note-making 1 The growth of Xi Wang Age Weight Food 1 day 1. 5.
10 days /
4 months 3.
8 months 4. 6.
12 months /
20 months
100g
her mother’s milk
10kg
35kg
bamboo shoots and leaves

15. Note-making 2 Having some of the problems Taking the following actions7. ⒑ 8. ⒒ 9. ⒓
If hunters catch a giant panda, they will kill it for its fur.
make giant panda reserves bigger
If farmers cut down trees and forests, giant pandas will have nowhere to live.
build more new reserves
If people find baby pandas, they will often take them away.
encourage farmers to leave the giant panda reserves

16. Discuss with your partners：
What other problems will the giant pandas have? What actions can we take?
They’re terrific!

17. interview about pandas
Have a face-to-face
interview about pandas

18. Summary: What’s the purpose of this passage?
Take actions to protect giant pandas.

19. Homework: Write an article.
What’s the relationship(关系) between wild animals and human beings?

20. Goodbye
Thanks a lot