8A Unit 5 Reading I
The story of Xi Wang
giant pandas
A quiz for you!
2. What does a panda look like when it’s born?
A. A cat. B. A bear.
Which animal is China’s national treasure?
A. B. C.
3. Which panda reserve is the biggest in China?
A. Dafeng. C. Zhalong.
C. A white mouse.
B. Wolong.
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4. What does a panda live mainly on(以食…为生)?
A. B. C.
A quiz for you!
5. What are giant pandas in the wild facing now?
A. They are facing no problems at all.
B. They are facing small problems.
C. They are facing .
serious problems
[‘si?ri?s]
bamboo [?b?m?bu:]
a famous TV show in China
It’s preparing a show on giant pandas these days.
How many paragraphs are there in the story?
Can you use one word to tell the main idea of each part?
Walk into the life of a panda.
The story of Xi
Wang
______
______
______
(Para__-- Para__)
(Para__)
(Para__-- Para__)
growth
problems
action
1
3
4
6
5
weight
food
Welcome to my growth world!
What two changes(变化) does Xi Wang tell us in her growth world?
weight
Xi Wang’s growth world
food
How much did she weigh?
What food did she have?
wasn’t ______
____ any more
a small
baby
b. Yes, they tell us Xi Wang grew very slowly.
a. Yes, they tell us Xi Wang grew very quickly.
Xi Wang grew very quickly.
Are the three words important here?
looked like
____________
started to ________
for the first time
____________
(when she was born)
___________
(4 months old)
_________
(8 months later)
just 100 grams
about 8 kilos
over 35 kilos
c. Yes, they tell us Xi Wang grew up happily.
d. No, they have no special meaning.
Xi Wang’s growth world (weight)
a white mouse
go outside
_______________
(in the beginning)
drank her mother’s milk
______________
(6 months old)
bamboo
_____________
(20 months old)
learnt to look after herself
Xi Wang’s growth world (food)
amazing!
Animal World will invite me to give a talk on my growth. Watch my video carefully and help me give the talk, please.
My growth
Give a talk!
6 months old
20 months old
100 grams, looked like
Be born
4 months old
8kg, started to go outside
8 months later
35kg, not a small baby
In the beginning
her mother’s milk
began to eat bamboo
learnt to look after…
1. Use the first person.
“When I was born, I …”
2. Prepare your talk
in two minutes.
6 months old
20 months old
100 grams, looked like
Be born
4 months old
8kg, started to go outside
8 months later
35kg, not a small baby
In the beginning
mother’s milk
began to eat bamboo
learnt to look after…
Hello, I’m Xi Wang. When I was born, I weighed…
Give a talk
We grow quickly and are very big
and strong, but why is our number
getting smaller and smaller?
face serious problems
My growth
Pandas’ problems
1.
2.
3.
4.
Difficult to have babies
Die at a young age
Have no food
Have no place to live
Why
Find out our problems.
Discuss:
have one or two babies at a time
The babies are hard to look after.
Pandas’ problems
1.
2.
3.
4.
Why
Find out our problems.
Difficult to have babies
Die at a young age
Have no food
Have no place to live
bamboo forests
live mainly on a special kind of bamboo
cut down
As a result, the bamboo forests
are becoming smaller and smaller.
Pandas’ problems
1.
2.
3.
4.
Find out our problems.
Difficult to have babies
Die at a young age
Have no food
Have no place to live
________ bring
many problems
to us.
Humans
Role play:
Xi Wang is so sad and she will tell all these problems
to Zhao Zhongxiang from Animal World on CCTV.
Act out their conversation.
Complain to Animal World!
§Prepare the play in pairs within 2 mins.
§Pay attention to your pronunciation,
intonation, action and feelings.
Xi Wang: Nice to meet you, Mr. Zhao.
I’m Xi Wang, I come to tell you my
sadness.
Zhao: Don’t worry. We will take action
to help you.
Xi Wang: … (at least two problems).
As a result, we are in danger now.
Zhao: Nice to meet you, Xi Wang. What’s your
problem?
Role play: Let’s listen to Xi Wang.
I want to live
harmoniously
with you!
(和谐)
Take action to help pandas!
黑水河
佛坪
阿坝勿角
A.
B.
C.
help pandas
have more babies
2. build more
panda reserves
3. make laws to
protect pandas
Discuss other actions!
Can you think out more actions to protect pandas?
Join some clubs and organizations like WWF.
Donate money to help protect pandas.
Don’t buy things made of animal fur.
Call on more people to join you.
Keep the world clean.
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There are now only 1,600 pandas in the world.
If we do nothing, soon there may be none left! However, we do believe that
Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者事竟成
Where there is life, there is hope.
生命不息,希望常在
Proverb (谚语):
Read and learn
where there is
Xi Wang, there is hope.
Animal World wants to collect wish cards for giant pandas for the coming TV show.
No hunting, no hurting.
Wish you a happy and long life.
Humans will be your forever friends.
We will protect you till the end.
Diagram
1
The growth of Xi Wang
2
The problems giant pandas face
3
The action we can take to protect the giant pandas
Xi Wang
Para1-Para3
Para4
Para5-Para6
Try to know about the problems of some
other countries’ national treasures.
2. Write a short passage to tell people
to protect giant pandas (at least 80 words).
Assignment