Unit5 Why do you like pandas?
Do you know which country it is?
Do you know any symbols of Thailand?
It’s Thailand.
象征
National symbols of Thailand
Asian elephant亚洲象
National flag国旗
National emblem
国徽
The water-sprinkling festival
泼水节
Pre-reading: look at the picture and answer the questions.
What’s the genre(类型) of this article?
What can elephants do?
It’s a website article.
The elephant can draw.
While-reading: Read this website article and check(√) the best title.
Reading tips:
The main idea always falls on the first or last paragraph.
While-reading: Read and find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Reading tips:
Pay more attention to the first or last sentence of each paragraph.
Elephants are important for Thailand .
Elephants are smart animals.
Elephants are in great danger.
While-reading: Read the para. 1 and answer the questions.
Which one is the first flag of Thailand?
What does the elephant stand for(象征) in Thailand?
While-reading: Read the para. 2 and finish the mind map.
What can elephants do?
字符延长
While-reading: Read the para. 3 and answer the questions.
What do people do with elephants?
How many elephants are there?
What can we do to save them?
People cut down many trees and kill elephants for their ivory.
Only 3000 elephants.
We must save the trees and not buy things made of ivory.
Things made of ivory
Retell the article
Some sad facts about elephants.
“protecting them means protecting ourselves.”
Not only elephants, but also many other wild and ocean animals are in great danger…
“When the buying stops, the killing can, too.”
没有买卖,就没有伤害。