Exercise: Fill in the blanks.

1. At _______, a baby panda is very small and pink.2. I am a little bit fat, I _______ 80 kilos.3. Qomolangma is 8,844.43 meters ______.4. The Nile is 6,671 meters _______.5. The Caspian Sea is 1,025 meters ______.6. The Sahara is about 9,600,000 square kilometers

in ____.7. This elephant weighs many times ______ than

this panda.

birthweigh

highlong

deep

sizemore

一、【创设情景，呈现目标】：

Guessing game: What is it?

It is a kind of animal. It is furry, and it is black and white. It only lives in China, and it eats bamboo. What is it?

Talk about pandas in your class. Use these words to help you.

big bamboo zoo popular cute Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect black and white

2a

Before reading

Teaching aims （教学目标）1. 通过阅读了解文章大意，及每个自然段的大意学会通过联系上下文猜测生词的词义3. 让学生了解大熊猫的现状及如何保护大熊猫Language points （语言点）要求掌握以下词汇及词组：（ 1 ）词汇： bamboo, endangered, research,

keeper, awake, excitement, illness, remaining, wild,

government, artwork (2) 词组： with excitement, run over, fall over,

walk into, die from illness

二、【自主学习，交流展示】

任务一： Translate the following text into English.1. 成都研究基地 2. 醒着3. 兴奋的跑过去 4. 走路时撞到一位老人5. 绊倒 6. 死于流感7. 大约 100 公斤 8. 野生动物9. 拯救动物的重要性

10. 帮助保护熊猫的一种方法

Chengdu Research Base be awake

run over with excitementwalk into an old man

fall overdie from the flu

one hundred kilos or sowild animals

the importance of saving animals

one way of protecting pandas

Pandas do not have many , maybe only one . The

hobies often illnesses and do not live very long. Adults pandas

spend more than 12 a day________ about 10 kilos bamboo. Many years

ago, there are bamboo forests and pandas than there are

now. But then humans started to the forests , and there was for

the pandas. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas in

the remaining forests.

任务二： 阅读第二遍完成下面内容：

babies every two years

die from

eating

A lot moreIn China

Cut down

任务四： Match the words with the Chinese meanings

1. keeper 政府2. awake 疾病3. excitement 饲养员4. illness 插图5. remaining 野生的6. endangered 濒危的7. artwork 激动，兴奋8. wild 醒着的9. government 遗留的，剩余的

2bScan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 200, 2,000.

It is 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 a.m., they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry. When the babies see the keepers, they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over!

“They’re so cute and lovely. I take care of them like they’re my own babies. I wash, feed and play with them every day. They’re very special to me.”

Lin Wei loves her job, but it is a difficult one.

Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to cut down the forests. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests. Another 200 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries.

Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 200, 2,000.

An education program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about pandas and other endangered animals. They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving these animals. The children sing songs or make artwork about pandas and other wild animals. Teaching children is one way to help save pandas. The Chinese government is also planting more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for pandas to live in. We all hope that in the future there will be more pandas than now.

Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 200, 2,000.

2c Scan the article again and write short answers to the questions.

1.What is Lin Wei’s job?

2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast?

3. What do adult pandas eat?

4. Why are pandas endangered?

She is a panda keeper.

Milk.

Bamboo.

First, pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long.

Second, pandas live on bamboo, but humans cut down bamboo and it is becoming less and less.

5. What is one way of saving pandas?Teaching children is one way to help save pandas.

Guess the meaning of the blue parts.

It is 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 a.m., they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry. When the babies see the keepers, they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over!

“They’re so cute and lovely. I take care of them like they’re my own babies. I wash, feed and play with them every day. They’re very special to me.”

Lin Wei loves her job, but it is a difficult one.

Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to cut down the forests. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests. Another 200 or so live in zoos of research centers in China and other counties.

An education program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about pandas and other endangered animals. They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving these animals. The children sing songs or make artwork about pandas and other wild animals. Teaching children is one way to help save pandas. The Chinese government is also planting more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for pandas to live in. We all hope that in the future there will be more pandas than now.

2nd reading:

饲养员

醒着激动 , 兴奋

疾病

遗留的 , 剩余的 大约

濒危的图片 , 插图野生的 政府

It is 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 a.m., they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry. When the babies see the keepers, they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over!

“They’re so cute and lovely. I take care of them like they’re my own babies. I wash, feed and play with them every day. They’re very special to me.”

Lin Wei loves her job, but it is a difficult one.

Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to cut down the forests. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests. Another 200 or so live in zoos of research centers in China and other counties.

An education program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about pandas and other endangered animals. They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving these animals. The children sing songs or make artwork about pandas and other wild animals. Teaching children is one way to help save pandas. The Chinese government is also planting more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for pandas to live in. We all hope that in the future there will be more pandas than now.

3rd reading

1. What is the main idea of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3?

2. What is the main idea of paragraph 4?

3. What is the main idea of paragraph 5?

4. What could be a good title for this article?

The panda keepers take care of baby pandas like they are their babies.

Why pandas becoming fewer and fewer

Ways of protecting pandas

We should protect endangered pandas.

Read and answer the following questions.

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.

2d Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage.

keepers

prepareoften

illnesses

bamboo forests

After reading

4. A special program in Chengdu teaches ________about why pandas are ____________ and howto save them.5. The ___________________ is also helping to save the pandas. It is ________ more trees to makemore homes for the pandas.

childrenendangered

Chinese governmentplanting

2e What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas?

1. Learn more about pandas.2. Help plant more bamboo and protect pandas’

living environment.3. Make some posters about pandas for people to

understand the problem.4. Donate to organizations that help save pandas.

1. endangered (adj.) 濒危的 一些野生动物处于濒危中，所以我们必须保护们。

Language points

2. awake (adj.) 醒着当那个新生儿醒着的时候，他就要喝牛奶

e.g. Some wild animals are endangered, so we have to protect them.

e.g. When a newborn baby is awake, he wants to drink milk.

3. excitement (n.) 激动；兴奋 excite (v.) 使…兴奋 激动 excited (adj.) 令人激动的 excited (adj.) 激动的， 兴奋的 人人都处在兴奋之中

e.g. Everyone is very excited.

4. walk into 走路时撞到

e.g. When you walk into someone, you should say “sorry” to him.

5. fall over 绊倒

e.g. When you are learning to ride your bike, you may fall over often.

当你走路撞到别人，你应该道歉

当你学骑自行车时，你可能会经常摔倒

6. die from illnesses 死于疾病All over the world, millions of people die from smoking.

7. remaining (adj.) 剩余的，遗留的 今天上午你先要做作业，剩余的时间可以玩电脑

e.g. You first have to finish your homework in the morning, then in the remaining time, you can play computer games.

fall into (the river) 掉到……里 fall off 从……上摔下来 fall down 跌倒 fall in love with 爱上 fall asleep

remain (v.) 保持；留下；剩余；残存会上这 3 个人保持沉默。e.g. The three men remained silent in the meeting.

8. or so 大约，左右，差不多

The quality of his work remains to be seen.

关于他工作的效果仍有待回答。

e.g. I have been working here for 12 years or so.

我在这里工作了大约 12 年

10. wild (adj.) 野生的

草地上有有一些野花e.g. There are some wild flowers on the grass.

I saw two wild cats in the bush just now.刚才草丛里我看见两只野猫

9. research (n.) & (v.) 研究；调查 她在中国花了两年的时间研究大熊猫。

e.g. She spent two years in China researching pandas.

Chengdu Research Base 成都研究基地

1. At birth, a baby panda is about…

birth v. 出生 at birth 出生时e.g. Man’s nature at birth is good.

人之初，性本善。give birth to… 生（孩子）；产生e.g. My aunt gave birth to a beautiful baby

girl yesterday.

昨天我婶婶生下一个漂亮的小女孩。

2. A panda can live up to 20 to 30 years.

up to 到达（数量，程度等）；不多于e.g. In some area of Africa, children get

educated up to 12 years old.

在非洲的一些地区，孩子最多受教 育到 12 岁。

3. …they run over with excitement and some of them

even walk into their friends and fall over!

run over 跑上前去over adv.穿越；从……的一边到另一边e.g. She ran over to say hello, but I

didn’t recognize her.

她跑过来打招呼，但我没有认出她 来。

4. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000

pandas living in the remaining forests.

living in the remaining forests 是一个现在分词短语，用做定语，修饰 pandas 。e.g. the girls singing under the tree

树下唱歌的女孩们 the women washing clothes by the river

河边洗衣服的女人们