(共36张PPT)
Unit 7
What's the highest mountain
in the world
Section B 1
1a-2e
New words
weigh v.
称……的重量
adult n. 成人
adj. 成年的
bamboo n.
竹子
endangered adj.
濒危的
research n. & v.
调查；研究
keeper n. 饲养员
awake adj.
醒着
excitement n.
激动；兴奋
illness n.
疾病
artwork n.
插图
wild adj.
野生的
government n.
政府
Compare facts about these two animals. Use the following information to help you make sentences.
1a
Elephant
— is 350 cm tall
— weighs 5,000 kilos
— eats 150 kilos of
food a day
Comparison
Panda
— is 150 cm tall
(standing on two legs)
— weighs 100 kilos
— eats 10 kilos of food a day
Example sentences:
This elephant weighs many times more than this panda.
(200 cm taller/shorter, weigh much more/less, eat much more/less, eat many times more)
Listen and check (√) the numbers
you hear.
Listening
100 16 20 50
120 0.1 0.2 150
√
√
√
√
√
1b
Listen again and complete the
sentences.
1. At birth, a baby panda is about ___ to ___ kilos.
2. At birth, a baby panda is about ___ cm long.
3. A baby panda is not black. It is ____ and it has no _____.
4. A panda can live up to ___ to ___ years.
0.1
0.2
15
pink
teeth
20
30
1c
Take turns telling your classmates
about pandas.
Practice
A: A baby panda cannot see.
B: An adult panda weighs many
times more than a baby panda.
C: …
1d
Talk about pandas in your class.
Use these words to help you.
Pre-reading
2a
big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect
Scan the article to find out
what these numbers mean.
10, 12, 300, 2000
2b
Reading
10--- Adult pandas eat 10 kilos of bamboo daily.
12 --- Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating.
300 --- About 300 pandas live in zoos or research centers in China or other countries.
2000 --- Scientists say there are fewer than 2000 pandas living in the forests.
Read the article again and write
short answers to the questions.
What is Lin Wei’s job
2. What do the baby pandas have for breakfast
A panda keeper.
Milk.
2c
3. Why are pandas endangered
Pandas are endangered because they do not have many babies, and the babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. As the forests get smaller and other human activities cause more problems, pandas cannot find enough to eat and they are having fewer babies.
4. What does the education program in Chengdu do
They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving pandas and other endangered wild animals.
5. Why are scientists doing research
They hope to better understand the habits of pandas.
Complete the sentences using words from the passage.
1. The panda _______ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake early in the morning to _______ breakfast for the baby pandas.
2. In _______, pandas have become so _________ that they are now a symbol of China.
keepers
prepare
2d
fact
popular
3. Adult pandas do not have babies very _____, and some of the babies only live for a short time because of ________.
4. A special program in Chengdu teaches ________ about why pandas are ___________.
often
illnesses
children
endangered
5. The Chinese government is helping to _____ the pandas. Scientists also want to better __________ the habits of pandas.
save
understand
以下是一只熊猫宝宝的自述，请根据课文内容填空，每空不超过三个词。
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Chengdu Research Base. I’m a baby panda. My name is Lingling. It’s 9:00 a.m. now and most of the babies including me are awake and hungry. Look, the keepers are coming with our breakfast — (1) ______. How excited we are!
milk
Lin Wei is one of our keepers and she takes good care of us. Unluckily, we pandas are in great danger now. Mother pandas maybe have one baby (2) _____________. And we baby pandas often die from illnesses. Also, we don’t have enough food because humans (3) ________________. But I know many people have realized it. An education program in Chengdu teaches children about us and other endangered wild animals.
every two years
cut down forests
And the Chinese government is trying hard to help (4) ______ us. Scientists are doing research to better understand our (5) _______.
I believe, with your help, my family will become larger and larger.
habits
save
Discussion
What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas
2e
1. At birth, a baby panda is about…
birth v. 出生 at birth 出生时
e.g. Man’s nature at birth is good.
人之初，性本善。
give birth to… 生（孩子）；产生
e.g. My aunt gave birth to a beautiful
baby girl yesterday. 昨天我婶婶
生下一个漂亮的小女孩。
Language points
2. A panda can live up to 20 to 30 years.
up to 到达（数量，程度等）；不多于
e.g. In some area of Africa, children get
educated up to 12 years old.
在非洲的一些地区，孩子最多受教
育到12岁。
3. Panda keepers are preparing milk for the baby panda’s breakfast.
prepare sth. for sb. 意为“为某人准备某物”，相当于prepare sb. sth.。如：
We’re preparing a surprise party for Mike.
=We’re preparing Mike a surprise party.
【运用】汉译英
妈妈刚刚给我们准备好了晚饭。
____________________________________________________________________
Mom prepared dinner for us just now. /
Mom prepared us dinner just now.
4. At 9:00 a.m., they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry.
英语中，awake常用于be, stay, keep, lie之后，作表语；但也可与shake等动词搭配，表示“某人摇醒他人”等。
e.g. You should shake her awake.
注意，awake不用于名词前，因此用作定
语时要后置。
e.g. She was the last person awake.
5. …they run over to them with excitement and some of the young pandas even walk into their friends and fall over!
run over 跑上前去
over adv. 穿越；从……的一边到另一边
walk into （走路时意外）撞上
e.g. As he was thinking too deeply and not paying attention to where he was going, he walked straight into a tree.
fall over 摔倒；倒下
e.g. Don’t run too fast, or you might fall
over.
别跑的太快，不然你会摔倒的。
fall over sth. 被某物绊倒
e.g. Tommy fell over the dog and broke
his front teeth.
汤米被那只狗绊了一跤，磕断了
门牙。
6. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the forests.
living in the forests是一个现在分词短语，用做定语，修饰pandas。
e.g. the girls singing under the tree
树下唱歌的女孩们
the women washing clothes by the
river
河边洗衣服的女人们
根据语境，选择恰当的单词填空。
remaining, adult, birth, awake, government
1. Our __________ is making plans to save
the animals in danger.
2. When my mother went into my room, I
was _____ but I didn’t get up.
3. The only _________ question is when we
can raise the money.
government
awake
Exercise
remaining
remaining, adult, birth, awake, government
4. —Kate is a disabled girl.
—I know. At _____, this girl only had
one arm.
5. Look! That _____ panda is looking
after her baby pandas.
birth
adult
Make a list about how to
save pandas.
