外研版八年级英语上册课件 Module 6 Unit 2 The WWF is working hard to save them all. (共39张PPT)

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外研 八年级上
The WWF is working hard to save them all.
Unit 2
Module 6
Animals in danger
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
Sources of fund
individual
government source (such as World Bank世界银行, DFID英国国际发展部)
corporation
others
57%
17%
10%
16%
1.The WWF is an important environmental organization.
2.It aims to build a future where people live in harmony with nature.
3.It works on around 1,300 projects in over 100 countries, and has 5 million supporters.
1. Conserving the world’s biological diversity (保护世界生物多样性)
2. Ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable (确保可再生资源的可持续利用)
3. 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)
WWF’s mission(使命):
1. Read to learn about pandas and what the government and WWF did to help and save the animals in danger.
2. To learn to write about an animal in danger
3. To learn the words and expressions
Objectives：
Words:
research baby scientist produce southwest government set feed symbol nature
Phrases:
nature reserves live on live in in order to
Patterns:
1. It chose the panda to be its symbol.
2. In order to protect pandas in the wild, the
government is setting up nature parks and
developing other plans.
3. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
wants to protect all animals.
4. We do not want to lose tigers, elephants or
any other animals, so 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
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
Pandas live high up in the mountains of Central and Western China. They live in the bamboo forests there.
1. Pandas in the wild usually eat bamboo. In zoos, their menu includes bamboo, apples and carrots.
2. A giant panda can eat as much as 30 kilograms of bamboo a day.
Pandas do not have many babies and baby pandas often die.
1. People are cutting down forests, so the pandas are losing their homes.
2. 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
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4
2
1
a) Nature parks for pandas
b) WWF and animals in danger
c) The panda’s home
d) An animal in danger
Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.
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Task 1
word 链接
Now read the passage to get more information about pandas. And then finish the following tasks.
Read Paragraphs 1&2 and answer :
1. How many pandas are there in the world
2. What problems are scientists doing research
to solve
3. Where do pandas live
4. Why are pandas losing their home
There are about 1,940 pandas.
Pandas do not have many babies and baby pandas often die.
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China.
Task 2
Because each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day and the bamboo forests are getting smaller.
How is the government try to save the pandas
The government is setting up big nature parks with more bamboo to feed the pandas and sending the pandas born in zoos to go back to live in the nature parks.
Read Paragraph 3 and answer :
Task 3
Read Paragraphs 3&4. Check the following sentences and correct the wrong sentences.
1. The panda is the symbol of all animals in danger everywhere.
2. Pandas born in the wild may live in zoos in the future.
3. The WWF is working hard to save panda only.
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F
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in zoos
the nature
parks
all animals
Task 4
Some information about pandas
Habitat(栖息地)
Food
Amount
Situation
Solutions
in the forests and mountains of Southwest China
bamboo
1,600 pandas live in the wild and 340 in the zoos and research centres
very difficult— less bamboo and few babies
set up nature parks and develop other plans
Fill in the blanks.
Task 5
不定式作目的状语
不定式作宾语补足语
Please find out the infinitives as object complements and adverbials of purpose.
Task 6
Try to give a summary of each paragraph in one sentence.
1. Scientists are doing lots of research to help pandas in danger.
2. Pandas eat lots of bamboo every day and bamboo forests are getting smaller.
3. The government is setting up nature parks to feed the pandas.
4. The WWF is working hard to save pandas as well as other animals.
Task 7
Complete the sentences.
Pandas eat bamboo to live.
Scientists do a lot of research _______ _______________________________________________________.
The government is setting up nature parks___________________________.
The WWF chose the panda _________________.
The WWF is working hard _____________________.
to help
pandas produce more babies and help baby pandas live
to protect pandas in the wild
to be its symbol
to save all the animals
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Task 8
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
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Scientists
produce
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baby
situation
government
save
nature
symbol
Task 9
Animals are our friends.
We should protect them!
To help animals is to help ourselves.
Brainstorm as many endangered animals as you can.
monkey
tiger
Snow leopard
雪豹
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
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It’s the tiger.
The tiger mainly lives in Asia.
It eats other animals.
4. Why is it in danger
5. How difficult is the situation
6. What can we do to save it
There are very few in the wild now.
The forests where tigers live are disappearing and people are killing tigers.
We should stop killing them and plant more trees.
Write a passage about an animal in danger. Use your answers in Activity 5 and the following example to help you.
Pandas live in Southeast 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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Possible answer:
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.
课时重点回顾
终于
建立
为了（不）做……
世界自然基金会
将会有……
喂养，饲养
do a research
set up
in order (not) to do sth.
WWF
there will be…
feed
Now 2 minutes to test your spelling.
1. English-Chinese
southwest research situation scientist nature park government
2. Chinese-English
生育; 繁殖 喂养; 饲养 为了 研制; 制定 开办; 设立
When finishing, exchange your papers to see who does the best.
Quiz
Ⅰ. 根据句意及提示完成下列单词。
1. The mother pig p________ seven baby
pigs yesterday.
2. Animals live in the n______ park happily.
3. We need more bamboo to f____ pandas.
4. My uncle is a s_______ and he often
shows me some interesting experiments
(实验).
roduced
ature
eed
cientist
5. — What are you doing these days
— I am doing a r________ on snakes.
6. Our ___________ (政府) is helping us
have a better life now.
7. This special apple is the _______ (象征)
of a famous company.
8. My home town is in the _________
(西南) of China.
esearch
government
symbol
southwest
1. Mrs Smith _____ some sheep on her
farm just now.
2. They decided to _______ a new plan to
help the poor children.
3. The ________ is getting better and all
of us feel happy about it.
fed
develop
situation
Ⅱ. 用方框中单词的恰当形式填空。
situation, develop, feed, nature park, set up, baby
4. — How many ____________ for pandas
are there in China
— Sorry, I don’t know.
5. My brother _____ a school website in
March, 2014 and now it is very popular
among the students.
6. There are some lovely and beautiful
　_______ in the picture.
nature parks
set up
babies
situation, develop, feed, nature park, set up, baby
We must protect these animals
__________.
2. My mother is not at home. She is ____________ my grandmother in the hospital.
3. The government will _________ a new school in this village.
4. These doctors are going to ____________ on cancer (癌症).
in danger
looking after
Ⅲ. 用方框中短语的适当形式填空。
in danger, look after, set up, do a research
set up
do a research
Homework
Read more articles in Learning English.
Finish the exercises in Learning English.
3. Preview Language in use on P46-49.