课件22张PPT。Wildlife
Animal extinction
These are the endangered animals that may _____________.die out Can you name the most famous animal that has died out ?dinosaur large, huge, cruel, frightening, ugly…
meat-eating animalsTry to describe the dinosaurs.Fast reading Try to find out the main idea of each paragraph.Para 1:Para 2:Para 3:A brief introduction of __________and the _________made by scientists.The ________for their dying out.Other wildlife has_________.dinosaursreasonsdied outdiscovery1. What happened during the long history of the earth?Many animals have disappeared during the long history of the earth.2. When did dinosaurs live on the earth? Dinosaurs lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being.Para 1:Careful readingDinosaurs lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being.long before:早在…之前很久(long long ago)before long:不久以后(soon after)E.g.--- Mauritius is a beautiful island,
I have been there____________.
--- That’s great! We’ll have a
trip there___________.long beforebefore longcome into being我不知道宇宙事何时产生的。
I don’t know when the universe came into being.
一种传统或习俗的形成是要经历很长一段时期的。
It takes a long time for a tradition or custom to come into being.形成，产生3. What did scientists discover?Dinosaurs have disappeared from the earth forever, why should we learn so much about them?To learn the reasons for their dying out, we can stop it from happening again to other animals.
……Para 2:Para 2:1. What might be the reasons for their dying out?Some think a large rock hit the earth , and others think the earth got too hot to live on.有人认为我太懒了, 其他人认为我太胖了以至于走不动.Some think I am too lazy, and others think I am too fat to walk.Para 3:1. According to the UN report, what can we know?We know that some 844 animals and plants have disappeared in the last 500 years.Read the story of dinosaurs! Long ______humans came into______, we, dinosaurs had a large family. And most of us _____to live in China. But we _________ during the long history of the earth.
When scientists ________the bones of a _____species of us, they learned that we could _______run like others ________climb trees.
However, scientists are still not sure about the reasons of our dying out. Some think a huge rock hit the earth and made too much_____. Others think the earth got too _____ for us to live on.
Maybe that’s why we died out, so did our friends---dodo.
beforebeinguseddisappearedinspectedrarenot onlybut alsodusthotDear friends, this is my story: According to a UN report, some 844 animals and plants have disappeared in the last 500 years. The dodo is one of them.the dodo渡渡鸟What does the dodo look like? The dodo had a large and hooked beak. What made the dodo different from many other birds is not just its large size, but that it was flightless. Guessing What caused the
disappearance
of the dodo?They were killed
by Man.The story is told by the dodo
using the ________ person.firstListening Which gives the main idea of the story?
This story is about how foolish the dodo was.
This story is about how the dodo became extinct.
This story is about how the dodo and Man
became friends.
D. This story is about how the other birds and
animals tried to save the dodo.1. The dodo is _________.
A. fierce B. unkind
C. friendly D. foolish
2. He wants to believe that Man is telling the truth because
_________.
A. Man is friendly
B. he thinks Man is friendly
C. he thinks the bears and monkeys lie
D. Man is his best friend
3. He didn’t realize who had killed many of his friends until
__________.
A. Man told him the truth
B. the other birds told him
C. he saw how his friend was being killed by Man
D. the monkeys told him.ListeningListen again and fill in the blanks.1. Once upon a time I lived on the ___________ of Mauritius.
I was ___________ “dodo.”
2. One day, _________ came and at first we ____________ to be good friends.
3. However, since then several of my dodo friends had _________________ and the number of our species began to _______________ quickly.
4. I couldn’t ______________ it until I saw how my friend was being killed by Man.
5. So my motto is: ______________________________________.islandcalledManseemeddisappeareddecreasebelievebe careful who you trustHomework
