(共29张PPT)
Section
第 4 课 时 (2a—2e)
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B
Unit 5 What’s the highest mountain in the world
学习本课时新单词、短语及句型:
单词:bamboo, endangered, research, keeper, awake, excitement, illness, wild, government
短语:walk into, fall over, or so
Learning Goals
2
能准确理解语篇中每个数字所表达的含义。
3
1
能理解文本细节信息并运用文中的语言完成相关练习。
How much do you know about pandas
pink, cannot see
have no teeth
15 cm long, 0.1-0.2 kilos
black and white
have teeth, eat bamboo
150 cm long, 100 kilos
Warming-up
Talk about pandas in your class. use these words to help you.
big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white
Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect
2a
Read the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 300, 2,000.
Warm tip:
You can read by scanning.
Scanning means moving your eyes quickly down
the page to find special information.
2b
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.
Scan the article again and write short answers to the questions.
1. What is Lin Wei’s job
2. What do the baby pandas have for breakfast
Lin Wei is a panda keeper.
Baby pandas drink milk for breakfast.
3. Why are pandas endangered
Pandas are endangered because humans started cutting down bamboo forests, causing pandas to have fewer places to live (in) and less food to eat.
2c
4. What does the education program in Chengdu do
5. Why are scientists doing research
Scientists are doing research to better understand the habits of pandas.
It teaches children about pandas and other endangered wild animals, and tells children about the importance of saving these animals.
Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage.
1. The panda __________at the Chengdu Research Base are
awake very 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
China
popular
2d
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 ___________.
5. The Chinese government is helping to ______ the pandas.
Scientists also want to better ___________ the habits of
pandas.
often
illnesses
children
endangered
save
understand
Read again and complete the information.
Pandas
Baby pandas
Amount of food
Only _____________________
Babies often die from_________.
10 ________________a day
one every two years
illnesses
kilos of bamboo
Pandas
Number of pandas
Ways to protect pandas
2,000 ______________________
300 _________________________
Teach _______. Tell them about the ___________ of saving pandas.
The Chinese government _______________________________. There’ll be _____________ _____________ to live in.
in the remaining forests
in zoos or research centers
children
importance
is also planting more bamboo trees
more forests
for pandas
What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas
Volunteer our time to be panda keeper.
Tell people not to cut down bamboo forests.
Plant more bamboo for the pandas.
2e
… they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry.
awake adj. 由前缀a-+动词wake构成,意为“醒着”。类似的词还有asleep(睡着); alive(活着)等。
Language points
1
Give him the letter as soon as he's awake.
他一醒就把这封信给他。
He lay awake all night, thinking about his new job.
他彻夜不眠,想着他的新工作。
(1)awake在句中用作表语,作定语通常后置。
He was the only person awake at the moment.
他是那时唯一醒着的人。
(2)awake与介词to连用时可表示“意识到, 明白”。
He was fully awake to the danger.
他完全意识到了危险。
【注意】
…they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over!
(1)do... with excitement 兴奋地做……,with excitement为介词短语作状语。类似的表达还有in silence(默默地);in person(亲自)等。
excitement(n.)由动词excite+后缀-ment构成。类似的词还有 achievement(成就);development(发展)等。
2
(2) run over 跑上前去 ;over adv. 穿越;从……的一边到另一边。
She ran over to say hello, but I didn’t recognize her.她跑过来打招呼,但我没有认出她来。
(3) walk into (走路时意外)撞上
As he was thinking too deeply and not playing attention to where he was going, he walked straight into a tree.
由于他陷入深思,没有注意看路,径直撞到了一棵树上。
(4)fall over 摔倒;倒下;fall over something 被某物绊倒。
Don’t run too fast, or you might fall over.
别跑的太快,要不你会摔跤的。
Tommy fell over the dog and broke his front teeth.
Tommy被那只狗绊了一跤,磕断了门牙。
die v. “死,去世”,表示生命的结束,是不及物动词,强调的是瞬间动作,不能与表示一段时间的状语连用。die可以用于进行时态,be dying意为“奄奄一息的;濒死的”。
The babies often die from illness.
3
My grandfather died at the age of 86.
我爷爷在86岁时去世了。
Flowers soon die if they are left without water.
如果不给花儿浇水,很快它们就会枯死。
Those trees are dying.
这些树木即将死去。
The little girl cried when she saw her dying cat.
看到快死的小猫,小女孩哭了。
die of / from意为“死于……”,前者一般指由于疾病、情感、衰老等自身原因引起的死亡;后者一般指环境(主要指事故等方面的外部原因)造成的死亡。
The man died of cancer.
这个男人死于癌症。
The president died from air crash.
总统死于飞机失事。
【拓展】
Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests.
living in the remaining forests 是一个现在分词短语,用作定语,修饰pandas。
The girls singing under the tree are very happy.
在树下唱歌的女孩们很快乐。
4
一、根据句意及汉语提示写出单词
1. The zoo isn’t a good place for the _______(野生的) animals to live in.
2. There is an old chair made of _______ (竹子) in my grandpa’s house.
3. Our __________ (政府) is trying its best to help the people in trouble.
4. The two astronauts will do ________ (研究) in space.
5. It was midnight, but he was still ____ (清醒) thinking about the
teaching plan.
Exercises
wild
bamboo
government
research
awake
1. —You want to lose weight But why You look quite slim to me.
—That may be true. But I’m _____ than last year.
A. much heavier B. heavy enough
C. much lighter D. light enough
2. Though he is lying on the bed with his eyes closed, he is ______.
A. sleepy B. angry
C. quiet D. awake
A
D
二、单项填空
3. I ______ a stone and hurt my left leg just now.
A. fell behind B. fell over C. fell asleep D. fell in love
4. Many wild animals and plants are ______ because of
humans activities.
A. danger B. dangerous C. dangered D. endangered
5. Who's that woman ______ clothes near the river
A. wash B. washes C. washing D. is washing
B
D
C
A set of pictures taken at a zoo are well known recently. Here is one of them. Do you know the 1. ___________ in it It is a squirrel monkey(松鼠猴)and it is 2. ___________ for food in it.
Some people thought that it 3. ___________ to be saying “Oh, my God!” or “Why?”
animal
asking
seemed
三、用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。
fact, seem, animal, what, ask,
usually, weigh, live, tourist, tail
It acted in such a funny way that 4. ________ couldn't stop laughing. After making some funny expressions(表情)in front of them, the squirrel monkey got 5. _________ it wanted.
Now you must be very interested in squirrel monkeys. Here are some 6. _________ about them. They're from South America. They have a very long 7. _____ and they 8. ________ 500 to 1,100 g.They 9. ________ eat fruit, flowers, leaves and eggs. They can 10._____ up to 10 to 12 years.
tourists
what
facts
tail
weigh
usually
live
fact, seem, animal, what, ask, usually, weigh, live, tourist, tail
Homework
1. Retell the article in 2b.
2. Review the words and expressions in
Section B.