Unit 4 Wild animals Reading

Wild animals

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

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

bamboo leaves bamboos bamboo forest bamboo shoots

Xi Wang ten days

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 .

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?

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.

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.

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

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

a. She started to look after herself. c 1 day 10 days 4 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

Note-making 1 The growth of Xi Wang Age Weight Food 1 day 1. 5. 10 days 2. / 4 months 3. 8 months 4. 6. 12 months / 20 months 100g her mother’s milk 10kg 35kg bamboo shoots and leaves

Note-making 2 Having some of the problems Taking the following actions 7. 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

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

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

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

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

Goodbye Thanks a lot