Book 8 A Unit 4Book 8 A Unit 4ReadingReading

A Guessing Game

A parrotA parrot

A rabbitA rabbit

A fishA fish

ElephantsElephants

GiraffesGiraffes

A tortoiseA tortoise

CamelsCamels

A snakeA snake

A tigerA tiger

A squirrelA squirrel

A kangarooA kangaroo

A pandaA panda

1 day1 day

10 days10 days

4 months4 months

6 months6 months

12 months12 months

20 months20 months

1. When Xi Wang was only 10 days old, she looked like ____.

A. a white cat B. a black dog C. a white mouse D. a black and white cat 2.At _______ months, she weighed about 10 kilograms.A. 3 B.4 C. 5 D.8

3. When Xi Wang was 20 months old, she ________ because her mother had another baby.

A. drank her mother’s milk B. started to eat bamboo shootsC. had to look after herself D. weighed 20 kilograms

Choose the right answers:

C

B

C

4. May Xi Wang have problems in the future?

Answer the following questions:

5. What will people do if they find baby pandas alone?

6.What will the world be if we do nothing for the pandas?

Yes,she may.

They will often take them away.

Soon there will be no giant pandas in the world.

Read the text, write a T if the sentence is true,write an F if it is false.

1. When Xi Wang was born, she weighed about 1,000 grams._______

2. Xi Wang began to eat bamboo shoots and leaves at two years.______

3. Xi Wang drank her mother’s milk for up to 14 hours a day at the very beginning. _______

4. When Xi Wang was eight months old ,she was not a small baby any more. She grew into a healthy young giant panda and weighed 35 kilograms. ________

5. When Xi Wang was ten months old , she started to look after herself. _________

F

F

T

F

F

100100

six monthssix months

twelvetwelve

twentytwenty

Match the new words:1.bamboo shoots _______ a. keep someone/something safe

from danger

2.survive ________ b. thick hair of animals

3.fur ________ c. support

4.forests ________ d. giant pandas’ favourite food

5.protect ________ e. large areas of land with trees

6.reserves ________ f. special areas for wild animals

7.encourage ________ g. stay alive

d

g

beafc

Missing words:

Xi Wang looked like a white _______ when she was only 10 days old. At four months, she __________ about 10 _________ and she started to go outside her home for the first time. At the beginning, Xi Wang ________ her mother’s milk for up to 14 hours a day. When she was six months old, she started to eat _______ _______ and _________ . At 12 months she was not a small baby any more. She grew into a ________ young _______ panda and ________ thirty-five __________.

When Xi Wang was twenty months old, she had to _______ ________ __________ .

Hunters kill giant pandas for their _______ . If farmers cut down trees and forests, giant pandas will have __________ to live. We must protect giant pandas. We should make giant panda __________ bigger, build more ________ and __________ farmers to leave the giant panda reserves.

mouseweighed kilograms

drank

bamboo shoots leaveshealthy giant weighed

kilograms

look after

herself

fursnowhere

reservesencouragereserves

1 day 10 days 4 months

6 months 12 months 20 months

1 day

• What should we do to protect the animals?

Homework：

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