Unit 7 What's the highest mountain in the world?Section B 2a~2e课件(共22张PPT) 人教版八年级下册

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Unit 7
What's the highest mountain in the world
Section B (2a~2e)
Let's watch a video and be ready to review.
How much does a baby panda weigh
How long is it
What color is it
Does it have teeth
What does it eat
A baby panda is about 0.1 to 0.2 kilos.
It is about 15cm long.
It is pink.
It has no teeth.
It has milk.
Do you know more about pandas
能理解并运用下列重点单词和短语：bamboo, research, keeper, awake, excitement, illness, wild, walk into, fall over, or so等。
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能运用扫读的阅读策略快速地捕捉文本信息并了解大熊猫的现状和保护情况。
目标:能运用扫读的阅读策略快速地捕捉文本信息并了解大熊猫的现状和保护情况
2a
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
Activity 1
Read the passage and underline the words you don’t know. Look up the words in a dictionary and write down their meanings, after that let's check.
government
endangered
research
or so
walk into
excitement
wild
illness
awake
fall over
keeper
bamboo
Activity 2
Do you know Chengdu Research Base
What does this institution work on
成都大熊猫繁育研究基地，位于成都北郊斧头山山侧的浅丘上，是一个专门从事濒危野生动物研究、繁育、保护教育和教育旅游的非营利性机构。建立了现存108只的世界上最大的大熊猫人工种群。
Activity 3
What does the passage talk about
Where are the pandas in the picture
Look and answer.
It talks about the pandas.
At the Chengdu Research Base.
Activity 4
Match the paragraph with the main idea.
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
d.The panda keepers feed pandas.
c.What Lin Wei thinks of her job.
a.The reasons for fewer pandas.
b.The ways of saving pandas.
2b
Read the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 300, 2,000.
阅读小技巧——扫 读（scanning）
要求找出数字代表的意义
扫读文章，寻找数字
重点关注数字所在句子，分析其代表的意义
This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information.
10
12
300
2,000
Adult pandas eat about 10 kilos of bamboo a day.
Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
300 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries.
Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the forests.
Activity 5
Read paragraph 1 carefully and answer the quesions.
1.What do the baby pandas have for breakfast
2.How do the baby pandas feel when they see the keepers
3.What happens when they see the keepers
They run over and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over.
They are excited.
Baby pandas drink milk for breakfast.
Read paragraph 2 carefully and answer the quesions.
1. What is Lin Wei’s job
2. What does Lin Wei do for pandas every day
Lin Wei is a panda keeper.
He washes, feeds and plays with them. He takes care of them like they're her own babies.
wash
feed
play with them
like her own babies
Read paragraph 3 carefully and answer the questions.
1.How many pandas are in the world
________________in the forests
________in zoos or research centers and other countries
300 or so
fewer than 2000
Number of pandas
②Babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long.
③Humans started to cut down the forests.
①Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years.
2.Why are pandas endangered
Read paragraph 4 carefully and answer the quesions.
1. What does the education program in Chengdu do
2. Which government is trying to help save the pandas
3. Why are scientists doing research
It send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving pandas and other endangered wild animals.
Chinese government.
They hope to better understand the habits of pandas.
Activity 5
2d
Complete the sentences using words from the passage.
1. The panda ______ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake early in the morning to _______ breakfast fro the baby pandas.
2. In ____, pandas have become so _______ that they are now a symbol of China.
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.
keeper
prepare
fact
popular
often
illnesses
children
endangered
save
understand
Activity 6
Work in groups. Find out some language points that you think are important and share their use with your classmates and give some examples.
Language point
1. Panda keepers are preparing milk for the baby pandas' breakfast.
prepare...for “为...准备…”
e.g. The students are busy preparing for the final exam.
学生们忙于为期末考试做准备。
2. ...they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry.
awake “醒着的”，常用于be,stay, keep之后，做表语。其反义词为asleep“睡着的”
e.g. It's twelve at night. He is still awake.
晚上12点了，他还是醒着的。
注意：awake不用于名词前做定语。
e.g. I was so excited that I was awake (wake) the whole night.
我太兴奋了以至于整晚都是醒着的。
Language point
3. …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,跑过去”
over adv.穿越；从……的一边到另一边
e.g. 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.
walk into “（走路时意外）撞上”
Language point
4.Another 300 or so live in zoos or ...
another “另一；又一”，常放在数词之前。
another +基数词+名词=基数词+other/more+名词。
e.g. We stayed there for another three days.=We stayed there for three other/more days.我们在那儿又待了三天。
or so “大约”，位于数词或者表示时间的名词之后，相当于about或around（常放于数词或表示时间的名词之前）
e.g. There are 40 students or so in the playground.
大约有四十名学生在操场。
Language point
5.The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long.
die from 通常指由于外部原因（事故、缺乏食物等）造成的死亡
e.g. He died from an accident. 他死于一场车祸。
die of 通常指由于人体自身原因（年老、忧伤等）造成的死亡
e.g. His mother died of sorrow. 他的母亲因过度悲伤而亡。
illness “疾病；病”，通常指因病而导致的不健康的状态
e.g. He cannot come because of illness.他因病不能来。
ill(adj.生病的)+ness(名词后缀)=illness(n.疾病)
英语中有些形容词加后缀-ness可构成名词，表示性质、状态
kind-kindness(仁慈），good-goodness(善良)
Activity 7
Discussion
2e
What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas
Build more nature researvs.
Stop cutting down trees.
Plant more trees.
Try not to buy things made of fur.
Try not to eat meat of wild animals.
Retelling time
Retell the pandas’ situation according to the mind map.
pandas
Baby pandas
Adult pandas
Numbers of
pandas
Ways to protect
pandas
Drink _______
Only __________________
Babies often die from _________
Eat 10 ______________ a day
2000 _____________________
300___________________________________
Tell ________about the ___________of saving pandas. The Chinese government is helping to _____ the pandas. Scientists also want to better __________ the habits of pandas.
milk
one every two years
illnesses
kilos of bamboo
pandas live in the forests
pandas live in the zoo or research centers
children
importance
save
understand