1. Step 1 Pre-reading
Reading for Fun!

2. I am a _________. spider I am a good hunter.
I don't have gun but only a net.
I make my net by myself.
The only game I hunt is insects.
I am not an insect because I have eight legs.

3. frog
I can walk and swim.
I can jump, too.
I am afraid of a snake.
I am a good hunter catching flies or bugs with my tongue.

4. bat 1. I like night rather than day. 2. I live in a cave.
3. I am not a bird but I can fly.
4. Find me in a horror movie.

5. bear I’m bigger and fatter than a dog.
I look like a panda but I’m brown.
I have four legs and sharp claws(爪 ).
I live in a cave and like honey.

6. How do these animals spend the winter?
They hibernate!

7. Use one word to describe the main idea of each paragraph.
introduction paragraph
Paragraph 1: ____________
hibernation
body paragraphs
Paragraph 2: ____
bats
Paragraph 3: _____
frogs
Paragraph 4:______
bears

8. Guess the meaning of the highlighted words in context
It usually occurs in winter, when a creature does not move for weeks or months continuously.
2. Creatures hibernate to survive the cold weather 　and the absence of food.
3. After digging deep into the mud at the bottom of a pond, they do not stir again until it is warm.
A. happen B. exist C. take place D. both A and C
A. absent B. presence C. lack D. lacks n.
A. moving B. move C. excite D. excitement ｖ.

9. Scanning Paragraph 1 When does hibernation usually occur? Line 2.
Why do creatures hibernate?
What happen to bats when they hibernate?
How do frogs get air into their bodies during hibernation?
How do bears hibernate differently from other animals?
Line 2.
It usually occurs in winter.
Line 4.
They hibernate to survive the cold winter and the absence of food.
Line 7-8.
Their pulse and breathing rates greatly slow down. Their temperatures drop as well.
breath through their skins
Line 12.
They breathe through their skins.
Line
They seem as though they are very sleepy. Other animals may look dead while hibernating.

10. Full Understanding of the hibernating creatures
What
Where
How
like being dead, hanging upside down;
Their pulse and breathing rates greatly slow down. Their temperatures drop as well.
a safe place in a cave
the mud at the bottom of a pond
breathe through their skins
They do not seem as though they are dead, but as though they are very sleepy.
in their dens with leaves

11. lizard snail Some other animals that hibernate snake hedgehog
ground squirrel
hedgehog
snail