1. What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Unit 7
What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Section B
reading

2. The giant panda is known as of China. the national treasure 国宝
2018/8/2

3. The panda’s culture
熊猫外交
Panda Diplomacy

4. big bamboo zoo popular cute famous Sichuan black and white endangered
beautiful
forest
protect
2018/8/2

5. The reasons for fewer pandas.
Skimming
Put the main ideas into the right order
The reasons for fewer pandas.
The ways of protecting pandas.
What Lin Wei thinks of her job.
Panda keepers feed pandas.

6. Numbers and facts about pandas
The panda is an endemic species（特有物种） of China. They live in the mountains in Sichuan, Shanxi and Gansu.

7. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China
Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It's the hometown of the giant pandas in China. Many tourists go to the Chengdu Research Base to see pandas every year.

8. panda keepers

9. Careful reading Time line At 8:30 a.m., Lin Wei and the other
9:00
8:30
At 8:30 a.m., Lin Wei and the other
___________ are______________ for the baby panda’s breakfast.
panda keepers
preparing the milk
At 9:00 a.m., they find that most of the babies
are already awake and hungry.
The panda keepers at Chengdu Research Base
are awake very early in the morning to prepare breakfast for the baby pandas.
A. 醒着的 B. 劳累的 C. 厌倦的 D. 无聊的

10. When the babies see the keepers, they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over!

11. Can you find these numbers? Try to give a sentence.
Scanning 12
Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about10 kilos of bamboo. 10
Another 200 or so live in zoos or research centers.
200
Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests.
2,000

12. Facts about pandas Wild (野生的） Artificially feeded (饲养的） Body length:cm
Weight :
60-73kg
80-125kg
Life span
（寿命）
18-20 years
30 years or so

13. Why are pandas endangered?
reason 2
reason 1
reason 3
The babies often die from illness and do not live very long.
Pandas don’t have many babies, maybe only one every two years.
Humans started to cut down the forests.

14. Where does the education program teach children about pandas?
2. How do the children do about it?
3. What is one way of saving pandas?
4. What does the Chinese government do?
In Chengdu.
By singing songs or making artwork about pandas and other wild animals.
Teaching children about the importance of saving pandas is one way to help save pandas.
The Chinese government is also planting more
bamboo trees.

15. other endangered animals planting more bamboo trees
An ________ program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about _______and______________________. They ______ people to _______to tell children about the __________of saving these animals. The children ___________ or ____________ about pandas and other wild animals. ________________ is one way to help save pandas. The Chinese government is also ____________________________ so there will be _____________ for pandas to live in. We all hope that in the future there will be ________________than now.
education
pandas
other endangered animals
send
schools
importance
sing songs
make artwork
Teaching children
planting more bamboo trees
more forests
a lot more pandas

16. Retell the passage one every two years illness kilos of bamboo
Baby pandas
Only ____________________________
one every two years
Babies often die from ______________
illness
Amount of food
10________________________ a day
kilos of bamboo
2,000___________________________
in the remaining forests
Number of
pandas
Pandas
200___________________________
in zoos or research centers
Teach________________. Tell them about the _________ of saving pandas.
children
importance
Ways to protect pandas
The Chinese government _______________________________. There’ll be _______________________________
to live in.
is also planting more bamboo trees.
more forests for pandas

17. What’s the writer’s attitude(态度)?

18. Although pandas are cute, they are endangered.

19. Not only pandas are endangered, there are also many other animals in danger.
As teenagers, what actions can we take to protect endangered animals?

20. Proposal (倡议书） By… December 12, 2014
Hello, everyone. I am a pupil from . When you eat something special, do you think animals are reducing(减少）?
When you kill one of the endangered animals, do you hear them crying? So as a teenager, we should___________
_______________________________
By…
December 12, 2014

22. We are friends!

23. Our world is so beautiful with these animals.

24. Show them in our school. Homework
Make a poster or an artwork about protecting endangered animals.
Show them in our school.