Module 6 Animals in danger. Unit 2 The WWF is working hard to save them all.课件34张PPT

英语（外研版）
八年级上册
English
Module 6
Animals in danger
Unit 2
The WWF is working hard to save them all.
It lives in China. It is black and white. Its favorite food is bamboo shoots(竹笋) and leaves.
giant panda
Guessing game
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课堂导入
What do you know about pandas?
Population:
Appearance:
In the wild: about 1,600
Weight at birth: about 100-200 grams
Adult weight: about 100-150 kilograms
Colour: black and white
Home:
Pandas live high up in the mountains of Central and Western China. They live in the bamboo forests there.
Food:
Pandas in the wild usually eat bamboo. In zoos, their menu includes bamboo, apples and carrots.
A giant panda can eat as much as 30 kilograms of bamboo a day.
Problems:
People are cutting down forests, so the pandas are losing their homes.
Some people are killing them for their fur.
There are not many pandas in the world now.
What should we do to protect the pandas?
世界自然基金会
The World Wide Fund for Nature
What does this symbol stand for?
Panda has become the symbol of all the animals in danger.
Founded:
April 29, 1961
Headquarters:
Switzerland
Motto:
For a living planet
The WWF is an important environmental organization.
It aims to build a future where people live in harmony with nature.
It works on around 1,300 projects in over 100 countries, and has 5 million supporters.
WWF’s mission(使命):
? Conserving the world’s biological diversity (保护世界生物多样性)
? Ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable (确保可再生资源的可持续利用)
? Promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption (推动降低污染和减少浪费性消费的行动)
research
baby
situation
scientist
produce
southwest
government
set
nature
develop
feed
symbol
n. 研究；探讨
n. 婴儿；婴孩
n. 形势；情况
n. 科学家
v. 生育；繁殖
n. 西南 adj. 西南的；朝西南的n. 政府
v. 设置；设定
n. 大自然；自然界
v. 研制；制定
v. 喂养；饲养
n. 象征；标志
New words
Reading and vocabulary
Say what you know about pandas.
like to eat bamboo
like to climb
naughty
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课堂活动
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
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1. _________________________
Pandas are in danger. There are only about 1, 600 pandas in the wild today. Zoos and research centres are looking after about 340 pandas. Pandas do not have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is getting very difficult. Scientists are doing a lot of research to help pandas produce more babies and help baby pandas live.
d) An animal in danger
2. _________________________
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. Each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The bamboo forests are getting smaller, so pandas are losing their home.
c) The panda’s home
3. _________________________
In order to protect pandas in the wild, the government is setting up nature parks and developing other plans. The nature parks will be big and there will be more bamboo to feed the pandas. Pandas born in zoos may go back to live in the nature parks.
a) Nature parks for pandas
4. _____________________________
b) WWF and animals in danger
The?World?Wide?Fund?for?Nature (WWF)?wants to protect?all? animals. And?it?chose?the panda?to be its symbol.?We?do?not?want?to?lose?tigers, elephants or?any?other?animals, so?the WWF is?working?hard to?save?them?all.
1. About ______ pandas are living in the wild today.
2. Zoos and research centres are looking after about _______ pandas.
Read Paragraph 1 and fill in the blanks.
1,600
340
3. Why are scientists doing a lot of research?
A. To study pandas
B. to save pandas
C. To help baby pandas live
D. Both B and C
1. Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southeast China.
2. Pandas need to eat a little bamboo every day.
3. The bamboo forests are getting bigger.
4. Pandas are losing their home.
Read Paragraph 2 Check and correct the sentences.
Southwest
F
F
F
smaller.
T
a lot of
1. How is the government try to save the pandas?
The government is setting up nature parks and developing other plans.
2. How is the nature park?
The nature park will be big and there will be more bamboo to feed the pandas.
Read and answer.
Learning?to?learn
Sometimes?you?can?learn?new?words through
translation.?For?example, when?you?learn
“government”, you?can?take?a?card?and?write?the
English?word?on?one?side?and?the Chinese?on?the
other.?Practise?saying “government”?and?check?
that you remember?the?meaning.
Complete the sentences.
Pandas eat bamboo to live.
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 protect pandas in the wild
to save them all
to be in symbol
produce more babies and help baby pandas live
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Zoos and research centres 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, 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.
Complete the passage with the words in the box.
baby government nature produce save Scientists situation symbol
Scientists
produce
baby
situation
government
save
nature
symbol
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Language points
1.The government is setting up nature parks……
注：set的过去式是set ,现在分词是setting
build
“建立，建造，建设，营造”，常指建造具体的房屋，eg:~ a house
set up
“开办，创立”，常接表示组织、机构、团体等意义的词, eg:~ a company
found
建立规模较大的机构, eg:~ the PLA
2.There will be more bamboo to feed the pandas.
feed 用作及物动词，意为“喂养，饲养”，后接名词或代词。
注：feed 的过去式是fed
feed sth to sb 或 feed sb on sth “喂某人某种事物”
feed on=live on “动物以…为食”
3.In order to protect pandas in the wild……
注：In order to …… “为了……”
In order to +动词原形，可放句首，也可放句中。
4.research n. 研究；调查
1) research centres 研究中心
2) do a lot of research 做了大量的研究
eg:In order to improve English, he reads English every day.
= He reads English every day in order to improve English.
eg:Zoos and research centres are looking after about 340 pandas.
5.There are only about 1, 600 pandas living in the wild today.
There be＋sb./sth＋doing sth. “有某人/物在做某事”
doing sth.作前面名词的后置定语，动词和前面的名词之间是逻辑上的主谓关系，且该动作正在发生。
eg:There is a girl singing in the classroom.
There is a dog lying on the floor.
6.develop v. 研制，制定，开发, 发展
develop plans --- make plans 制定计划
eg:The company is developing new products.
7. Pandas do not have many babies, and baby pandas often die.
大熊猫幼崽很少，而且幼崽经常死亡。
●辨析die，death，dying 和dead 的用法区别。
die 是动词“死，死亡”，death 是名词“死，死亡”。dead 是形容词“死的”。dying是形容词“快死的，垂死的”。
用die，death，dying，dead的正确形式完成句子：
He in 1989 at the age of 76.
他1989年去世，终年76岁。
Two children were burnt to in the fire.
两个孩子在火灾中被烧死。
The man was already when the other people found him.
等其他人发现时，那个男人已经死了。
There is a lion in the zoo.
动物园里有一只快死的狮子。
died
death
dead
dying
Writing
Choose an animal in danger and answer the questions.
1 What is the animal?
2 Where does it live?
3 What does it feed on?
4 Why is it in danger?
5 How difficult is the situation?
6 What can we do to save it?
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Choose an animal you know
Write a passage about an animal in danger. Use your answers in Activity 5 and the following example to help you.
Pandas live in the Southwest of China. They are in danger and the situation is getting very difficult. First, pandas do not have many babies, and baby pandas often die. Second, pandas eat bamboo, but the bamboo forests are getting smaller. So the government is setting up nature parks with a lot of bamboo to help protect pandas.
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The?tiger?is?an?animal?in?danger.?First,?there are
very?few?in?the?wild?now.?Second,?the
forests?where tigers?live?are?disappearing. Third,?people?are?killing tigers.?So?tigers
need forests?to?live?in,?and?people
need?to?stop killing?them.
Possible?answer
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课堂小结
1、We have read to learn about pandas and what the government and WWF did to
help and save the animals in danger.
2、We have learnt to how to grasp the main idea of each paragraph of the passage.
3、We have learnt to write an article about animals in danger.
一、 翻译下列句子。
⑴在野外___________
⑵做大量研究_________________
⑶自然公园_________________
⑷中国西南部________________
⑸为了__________
⑹建立__________
⑺制定计划_______________
⑻回到____________
⑼……的标志_______________
in the wild
do a lot of research
nature park
Southwest China
in order to
set up
develop plans
go back to
the symbol of
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课堂训练
The Statue of Liberty is the ________ (标志) of New York.
2. Tigers are becoming fewer and fewer for many different _________ (原因).
二、根据句意及汉语提示完成单词。
symbol
reasons
3. The members of the club are _______ (主要地) young people.
4. She is doing the ________ (研究) about pandas.
mainly
research
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