Unit 10Unit 10The world around usThe world around us

Period 2Period 2

hippohippo

Tibetan antelopeTibetan antelope

Task 1:PresentationTask 1:Presentation

kangarookangaroo

giraffegiraffe

Task 2: Pre-reading Task 2: Pre-reading discussiondiscussion1.How do plants & 1.How do plants & animals animals live together?live together?2.What do plants & 2.What do plants & animalsanimals need to survive?need to survive?3.What do human beings 3.What do human beings need need to survive?to survive?

O2:oxygen

putridity

microbe

How do plants and animals live together?

Task 3: SkimmingTask 3: Skimming

Who is Steve Who is Steve Jones?Jones?Are we Are we endangered?endangered?

Task 4: Scanning ( ( T or F )1.Human beings always do as they say.

2.It’s late for us to take measures to keep animals and plants from dying out.3.A species may die out if humans or other animals use too much of a plant or kill too many animals.4.Planting a tree is a way to creating more space for animals.

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Task 5: Intensive reading

1.Why do animals & plants become endangered?2.What can we do to protect animals & plants that are being endangered?

Main reasons:Destruction of human beings.Introduction of a new species.Overuse of a plant and over-hunt for animals.

Lack of food.Pollution.

Read the text while listening to the tape and pay attention to the new words and expressions.

Task 7: Guess the meaning of each underlined part.

1.1.There are over 200 There are over 200 speciesspecies of of fish.fish.

2.2.Please Please keepkeep the dog the dog fromfrom coming coming intointo

my study.my study.3.Many of the earth’s plants & 3.Many of the earth’s plants &

animalsanimals have have died outdied out..4.Our government has 4.Our government has taken taken

measuresmeasures to protect the pandas. to protect the pandas. 5.Our eyes slowly 5.Our eyes slowly adapted toadapted to the the

dark.dark.6.We can help by creating more 6.We can help by creating more

spacespace for animals and plants.for animals and plants.7.What can we do to help 7.What can we do to help

endangeredendangered animals?animals?

Task 8: Discussion & WritingTask 8: Discussion & Writing*Main idea of the text.*Main idea of the text.

*Post-reading: *Post-reading: Part 2 ( P67 )Part 2 ( P67 )

It’s about why a species becomes endangered and what we can do to protect plants & animals from becoming endangered.

• Homework:Homework:

•ExxExx 1-3,1-3, PP140140,, WBWB