3. 冀教版　八年级下册
Lesson 47
Connected to Nature

4. Listening Listen and put the sentences in the correct order.
All living things are connected.
We should protect the environment.
Living things live in the world.
All living things need water and food to grow.

5. Reading start out=start start out
1. All the living things ________ weak and small and slowly _____ strong and big.
2. What happened to the birds if they eat the sick or dead fish?
3. Why should we protect the earth and all the living things on it?
4. Nature is a balance between all the living things on the planet.
start out
grow
They may die off.
die off=die
Because all living things are connected.
自然是地球上所有生物和谐的整体。

6. Read again and fill in the blanks
live off depend on start out be filled with die off species connect respect
The natural world ______________ living things. Living things __________ weak and small and slowly grow strong and big. All living things need food and water to grow.
We are different in some ways, but all living things are __________. We all live on the same planet, and we _________ each other. Some birds _________ fish. If the birds eat the sick or dead fish, they may _______. We should ________ the earth and all the ________ on it.
is filled with
start out
connected
depend on
live off
die off
respect
species

7. Practice dead 1. His mother has been ________ for ten years.
respect connect die dead follow
dead
1. His mother has been ________ for ten years.
2. People should ________ and understand each other.
3. Don't always ________ others. You should have your own ideas.
4. We are ____________ by the Internet.
5. The trees _________ out, and this place became a desert.
respect
follow
connected
died

8. Read then passage and fill in the blanks with the sentences below.
Many years ago, there were more animal species than there are now. There were many forests. The rivers were clean. The sky was blue. Birds sang from morning until night. ________
But later, people cut down the trees in the forests, kille the animals and built factories and buildings. __________ People's houses were buried by soil in floods. Some animals lost their homes, and they attacked people. Some factories polluted the air, water and people's food. The earth is getting warmer. Some scientists say the sea level will rise by at least 1 metre in the next 100 years. ___________
People are now living in a worse and worse environment. ___ We need to reduce pollution and protect our environment.
A. Some houses beside the sea will disappear.
B. People lived together with many kinds of animals.
C. We should do something to save our world.
D. They changed the earth.

9. Group works Make a poster about "protect our environment"
Task 1
Make a poster
about "protect
our environment"
to call on people
to protect our
nature.
Task 2
Give more suggestions about how to protect the environment and then make a report.
Task 3
Give an introduction about how all living things are connected to each other.

10. Homework 1. You can choose one the tasks and then finish it.
2. Finish the Learn English.
3. Read Lesson 47 for three times.

11. Homework