Unit4 Wild animals

By Guo Xiaoyue

Reading

A riddle They are beautiful black and white animals .They look like bears. They live only in China . Their favourite food is bamboo shoots and leaves . Their greatest hope is to take a colour photo. Who are they?

Wild animals

giant panda

• Appearance:

• Ability:

• Favourite food:

• The best place they live in:

• Problems:

Fat but lovely, black eyes, black and white fur

Can climb trees Bamboo shoots and leaves, water

In the wild / forests

It’s difficult for them to live in the wild.Getting smaller and smaller

Write something down about pandas

1. take actions

We should take actions to help people in need.

2. protect

It’s time for us to take actions to protect our nature.

3. survive

You can’t survive without water.

4. kill --- for---

Hunters often kill tigers for their fur.

5. reserve

We need more reserves for wild animals.

6. encourage sb to do sth

Our teachers encourage us to study hard every day.

Read and true or false( ) 1 When the writer saw Xi Wang, she weighed

only 10 kilograms.

( ) 2 When she went outside for the first time,

she started to eat bamboo shoots and leaves.

( ) 3 Eight months later, she weighed 35 kilograms.

( ) 4 Xi Wang drank her mother’s milk for up to

14 hours a day at the beginning.

( ) 5 Farmers kill giant pandas for their fur.

( ) 6 Making bigger reserves for giant pandas will help

to protect them.

T

F

F

T

F

T

The growth of Xi Wang

The problems that Xi Wang meets

The ways to protect giant pandas

the weight of Xi Wang

the things she eats

The growth of Xi Wang

When she was born,

she weighed just .

100 grams

At four months,

she weighed about .

10 kilograms

Eight months later,

She weighed .

35 kilograms

The weight of Xi Wang

At the very beginning, Xi Wangdrank her mother’s for upto a day.

milk14 hours

When she was six months old, she started to eat , and .

bamboo shoots leaves

Things she eats

1. At birth, how much did it weigh?2. What did she look like when she was 10 days

old?3. When she was 4 monthe old, how heavy was

she?4. When did she start to eat bamboo shoots an

d leaves?5. How heavy was she when she was one year

old?6.At 20 months old,what did she have to do? W

hy?

Read the growth of Xi Wang and answer the questions:

Giant pandas‘ problems

catch them for their .

cut down forests and the pandas have to live.

People take baby pandas if they are left alone.

away

Hunters

Farmers

fur

nowhere

What can we do to protect giant pandas that we can know from the text?

1.We must _______________________________

2.We must _______________________________

3.We must________________________________

________________________________

make giant panda reserves bigger .

build more reserves.

encourage farmers to leave the giant

panda reserves.

The growth of Xi Wang

1 day 10 days

20 months

12 months

6 months4 months

a She started to look after herself.

b She was about 10 kilograms and started

to go outside her home.

c She looked like a white mouse.

d She began to eat bamboo shoots and leaves.

e She weighed 100 grams.

f She weighed 35 kilograms.

e

a

f

dbc

How to protect giant pandas

Giant pandas are in .we must help them .

Hunters should not kill giant pandas for their .

Farmers should not work in giant panda .

People should not take baby pandas away if they find them on their own.

This is not _____ because baby pandas need to stay in the _____ with their months.

danger

wild

survivefur

reserves

helpful

danger fur helpful reserves survive wild

Summary:What’s the purpose ( 目的 )of t

his passage?Take actions to protect giant pandas.

Take actions to protect more wild animals.

What other problems will the giant pandas have? What actions can we take?

Homework:1. Finish exercises on p61-62.

2.Write a passage about giant panda.