1. The WWF is working hard to save them all.
Unit 2
The WWF is working hard to save them all.

2. Do you know WWF?
World Wide Fund for Nature
世界自然基金会

3. Let's play a guessing game.
Lead-in
Let's play a guessing game.
It is fat but lovely.
It has two black eyes.
It can climb the trees.
It has a black and white fur.
It sometimes eats meat.
It lives only in China.
It looks like a bear.
It usually eats bamboo shoots and leaves.

4. Where does the panda live?
It lives in Sichuan, China.

5. What does it eat?
It mainly eats bamboo.

6. Say what you know about pandas.

7. The situation is getting very difficult.
research
scientist
研究，探讨
科学家
situation
形势，情况
The situation is getting very difficult.
Scientists are doing a lot of research to help
pandas produce more babies and help baby
pandas live.

8. government 自然公园 government is setting up nature parks and
In order to protect pandas in the wild, the
government is setting up nature parks and
developing other plans.

9. Pandas live in the forests and mountains of
Southwest China.
It chose the panda to be its symbol.

10. Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.
---a). Nature parks for pandas
---b). WWF and animals in
danger
---c). The panda’s home
---d). An animal in danger

11. Read the passage again and answer the questions.
1. What are scientists studying?
2. Are there many of pandas left?
They are doing a lot of research to help pandas produce more babies and help baby pandas live.
No, there aren’t.

12. 3. What is the government doing to protect pandas in the wild?
4. Is the panda the symbol of all animals in
danger?
The government is setting up nature parks and developing other plans.
Yes, it is.

13. Complete the sentences.
1. Scientists do a lot of research
____________________________________
___________________________________.
2. The government is setting up nature
parks _________________________.
3. The WWF chose the panda
_____________.
4. The WWF is working hard
____________________________.
to help pandas to produce more babies and help baby pandas live
to protect pandas in the wild
to be its symbol
to save all the animals

14. Complete the passage with the words in the box.
baby government nature produce save Scientists situation symbol
Zoos and research centers protect animals. (1) ________ do a lot of research to help pandas (2) _______ more babies. Very few (3) ______ pandas are born outside zoos. Many people are worried about the panda’s (4) ________. Luckily, the (5) ___________ is developing plans to (6) _____ pandas,
Scientists
produce
baby
situation
government
save

15. and is setting up (7) ______ parks to protect them.
baby government nature produce save Scientists situation symbol
and is setting up (7) ______ parks to protect them.
People all over the world love pandas, and the panda has become a (8) _______ of China.
nature
symbol

16. Language points
1. Scientists are doing a lot of research
to help pandas produce more babies…
do a lot of research表示“做大量研究”。
research是不可数名词。
produce表示“生育，繁殖”。
e.g. produce more babies

17. 2. In order to protect pandas in the wild, the government is setting up nature parks …
set up 创建，创办
e.g. He wants to set up a school for the
poor children. 他想为贫困地区的孩
子创办一所学校。

18. in order to do sth. 为了做……
e.g. In order to be a doctor, you have to
study for five years in a college.
I have to get up at 6:00 in order to catch the bus.
3. And it chose the panda to be its symbol.
be the symbol of 表示“是……的象征”。
e.g. Green is the symbol of Spring.
绿色是春天的象征。

19. 练一练：
1. Please tell the children ______ in their
homework on time.
A. to hand B. hand C. handing A
2. --Hi, Peter. Why are you in such a hurry ?
--_____ the 6:30 train.
A. Catch B. To catch
C. Catching D. Caught B

20. 3. The doctor is helping the lady _____ her
baby.
A. produce B. create C. feed
4. The sign is the ______ of danger. You
must be careful.
A. research B. situation C. symbol A C