Unit4 Wild animals
By Guo Xiaoyue
Reading
A riddle They are beautiful black and white animals .They look like bears. They live only in China . Their favourite food is bamboo shoots and leaves . Their greatest hope is to take a colour photo. Who are they?
Wild animals
giant panda
• Appearance:
• Ability:
• Favourite food:
• The best place they live in:
• Problems:
Fat but lovely, black eyes, black and white fur
Can climb trees Bamboo shoots and leaves, water
In the wild / forests
It’s difficult for them to live in the wild.Getting smaller and smaller
Write something down about pandas
1. take actions
We should take actions to help people in need.
2. protect
It’s time for us to take actions to protect our nature.
3. survive
You can’t survive without water.
4. kill --- for---
Hunters often kill tigers for their fur.
5. reserve
We need more reserves for wild animals.
6. encourage sb to do sth
Our teachers encourage us to study hard every day.
Read and true or false( ) 1 When the writer saw Xi Wang, she weighed
only 10 kilograms.
( ) 2 When she went outside for the first time,
she started to eat bamboo shoots and leaves.
( ) 3 Eight months later, she weighed 35 kilograms.
( ) 4 Xi Wang drank her mother’s milk for up to
14 hours a day at the beginning.
( ) 5 Farmers kill giant pandas for their fur.
( ) 6 Making bigger reserves for giant pandas will help
to protect them.
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F
F
T
F
T
The growth of Xi Wang
The problems that Xi Wang meets
The ways to protect giant pandas
the weight of Xi Wang
the things she eats
The growth of Xi Wang
When she was born,
she weighed just .
100 grams
At four months,
she weighed about .
10 kilograms
Eight months later,
She weighed .
35 kilograms
The weight of Xi Wang
At the very beginning, Xi Wangdrank her mother’s for upto a day.
milk14 hours
When she was six months old, she started to eat , and .
bamboo shoots leaves
Things she eats
1. At birth, how much did it weigh?2. What did she look like when she was 10 days
old?3. When she was 4 monthe old, how heavy was
she?4. When did she start to eat bamboo shoots an
d leaves?5. How heavy was she when she was one year
old?6.At 20 months old,what did she have to do? W
hy?
Read the growth of Xi Wang and answer the questions:
Giant pandas‘ problems
catch them for their .
cut down forests and the pandas have to live.
People take baby pandas if they are left alone.
away
Hunters
Farmers
fur
nowhere
What can we do to protect giant pandas that we can know from the text?
1.We must _______________________________
2.We must _______________________________
3.We must________________________________
________________________________
make giant panda reserves bigger .
build more reserves.
encourage farmers to leave the giant
panda reserves.
The growth of Xi Wang
1 day 10 days
20 months
12 months
6 months4 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.
e
a
f
dbc
How to protect giant pandas
Giant pandas are in .we must help them .
Hunters should not kill giant pandas for their .
Farmers should not work in giant panda .
People should not take baby pandas away if they find them on their own.
This is not _____ because baby pandas need to stay in the _____ with their months.
danger
wild
survivefur
reserves
helpful
danger fur helpful reserves survive wild
Summary:What’s the purpose ( 目的 )of t
his passage?Take actions to protect giant pandas.
Take actions to protect more wild animals.
What other problems will the giant pandas have? What actions can we take?
Homework:1. Finish exercises on p61-62.
2.Write a passage about giant panda.