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2a Talk about pandas in your class. Use the words to help you.
big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect
What do you know about
pandas
10 12 200 2,000
2b Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean:
Reading strategy(阅读策略 ):
Scanning
This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information.
10 – Adult pandas eat 10 kilos of bamboo daily.
12 – Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating.
200 – About 200 pandas live in zoo or research centers in China or other countries.
2,000 – Scientists say there are fewer than 2000 pandas living in the forests.
2cScan the article again and write short answers to the questions.
1. What is Lin Wei’s job?
Lin Wei is a panda keeper.
2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast?
Baby pandas drink milk for breakfast.
3. What do adult pandas eat?
Adult pandas eat bamboo.
4. Why are pandas endangered?
Humans started cutting down bamboo forests, causing pandas to have fewer places to live (in) and less food to eat.
5. What is one way of saving pandas?
One way is to plant more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for pandas to live in.
2d 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. Adult pandas do not have babies very ________, and some of the babies only live for a short time because of _________.
3. Another reason for fewer and fewer pandas is because people are cutting down ___________________ so pandas have fewer places to live.
4. A special program in Chengdu teaches __________ about why pandas are ____________ and how to save them.
5. The _____________ is also helping to save the pandas. It is ___________ more trees to make more homes for the pandas.
keepersprepare
often
illnesses
bamboo forests
childrenendangered
governmentplanting
Baby pandas
Pan
das
Amount of food
Number of pandas
Ways to protectpandas
Only _______________________
Babies often die from___________
10____________________ a day
2,000 _______________________
200_______________________
Teach ___________. Tell them aboutthe ___________ of saving pandas.
The Chinese government _______________________. There will be
__________________ to live in.
one every two years
illnesses
kilos of bamboo
in the remaining forests
in zoos or research centers
children
importance
is also planting more bamboo trees.
more forests for pandas
2e What other ways to do you think children can help to save the pandas?
Important phrases:
feel freeas far as I knowin the face ofeven thoughat birth up to run overwalk into fall overor so
随意就我所知面对(问题、困难)即使;虽然出生时到达跑上前去;跑过去走路时撞着绊倒大约
为……而准备每隔两年照顾死于疾病花时间做某事砍伐一个教育项目濒危动物一种方式对……有特殊意义
prepare forevery two yearstake care ofdie from illnessspend time doing sth.cut downan education programendangered animalsthe way tobe special to sb.
1.写一小文章:How do you protect the endangered anim
als?
2. 完成作业本第 4课时。