1. Unit 4
Wildlife protection
Warming up and reading

2. What made the world around us so wonderful?
Look at the picture. What is the animal?
Giant
panda
They are lovely but their number is smaller.
So we can call them endangered animals.

3. How do you feel about these
pictures?
Which animals do you think are rare and precious? Why?

6. Why are they in danger of disappearing?
pollution
food shortage
hunting
disease
destroy of habitation

7. Tibetan antelope

10. How can we help these animals?
1. We can help endangered animals by protecting their habitats, creating new habitats.
2. Control export and import of endangered animals and plants.
3. Give publicity to the importance of protecting wild animals.
4. Set up the special government organizations to carry out the rules and laws.

11. Read and find out the main idea.
Fast reading
Read and find out the main idea.
Daisy took a flying carpet to travel and talked with some animals, which made her know the importance of the wildlife protection.

12. Decide the sentences are true or false.
1. Daisy saw many antelopes in Tibet.
2. Daisy’s sweater was made of sheep wool.
3. The antelopes were an endangered species.
4. The elephant used to be well protected in Zimbabwe.
5. In Zimbabwe, tourists love to see the elephants.
6. The farmers in Zimbabwe get nothing from the elephants now.
7. This is a real story in Daisy’s life. F T F T F F

13. Read and complete the chart.
How did she feel?
Animal
Where
What did she find?
antelope being killed for fur
antelopes
Tibet
sad
killed for its
habitat
elephant
Zimbabwe
happy
monkey
rain forest
rain forest being destroyed
amazed

14. 1. Why has the antelope in Tibet become an endangered species?
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Read and answer the questions.
1. Why has the antelope in Tibet become an endangered species?
Its fur is being used to make sweaters. As the sweaters become popular, more and more animals are killed . So very few antelopes are left.
2. Why are elephant numbers increasing in
Zimbabwe?
The farmers stopped killing the elephants, so the number is increasing.
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15. 3. How does the government of Zimbabwe
help protect wild animals?
The government helps the farmers. It makes sure that the tour companies pay the farmers when tourists come to visit and hunt a few animals.

16. 4. Why is it important to protect the
rainforest?
Looking after the rainforest helps protect plants and animals we know nothing about. They may make it possible for us to produce medicines and drugs that we don’t yet know about.

17. 1 2 Para-graph Main idea Supporting details Why we need wildlife
Read and complete the chart.
Para-graph
Main idea
Supporting details 1
Why we
need
wildlife
protection
1 Animal: Tibetan Antelope
2 Situation : being hunted for the fur
under its stomach
3 Result: numbers are decreasing
rapidly 2
1 Animal:
2 Situation:
3 Result:
elephants in Zimbabwe
a good example of wildlife protection
previously hunted with
numbers decreasing
rapidly
protection by farmers who
make money from tourism.

18. Para-graph
Main idea
Supporting details 3
and 4
1 Animal:
2 Situation :
3 Result:
a millipede from tropical rainforest
What we can get from wildlife protection
produces a drug naturally which can protect us from mosquitoes
Daisy plans to tell WWF about the drug.

19. Free talk
According to the text, make a dialogue between Daisy and Antelope / Elephant / Monkey.

20. Interview
Suppose you are Daisy. A reporter of China Daily is interviewing you about your special travel.

21. Useful patterns and expressions: ▲ I suggest that we should…
▲ How did you go traveling?
▲ Where did you go at first? Then? Finally?
▲ What animal did you meet there?
▲ What did you find?
▲ How did you feel?
▲ What do you suggest?
Useful patterns and expressions:
▲ I suggest that we should…
▲ It’s important/necessary to do…
fur/hunt /die out/ endangered/ destroy / habitats/
protect…from/ pay attention to

22. Homework Review the text and the new expressions.
Pick out the sentences with present progressive passive voice.