Warming up and reading

What made the world around us so wonderful?Look at the picture. What is the animal?

They are lovely but their number is smaller.So we can call them endangered animals.

Giant panda

How do you feel about these

pictures?

Which animals do you think are rare and precious? Why?

Why are they in danger of disappearing?

pollution food shortage

disease

destroy of habitation

hunting

Tibetan antelopeTibetan antelope

1. We can help endangered animals by protecting their habitats, creating new habitats.

2. Control export and import of endangered animals and plants.

3. Give publicity to the importance of protecting wild animals.

4. Set up the special government organizations to carry out the rules and laws.

How can we help these animals?

Daisy took a flying carpet to travel and talked with some animals, which made her know the importance of the wildlife protection.

Fast reading

Read and find out the main idea.

Decide the sentences are true or false.1. Daisy saw many antelopes in Tibet.2. Daisy’s sweater was made of sheep wool.3. The antelopes were an endangered species.4. The elephant used to be well protected in

Zimbabwe.5. In Zimbabwe, tourists love to see the

elephants.6. The farmers in Zimbabwe get nothing

from the elephants now.7. This is a real story in Daisy’s life.

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Where What did she find?How did she feel?

Tibet

Zimbabwe

rain forest

antelope being killed for fur sad

killed for its habitat

happy

rain forest being destroyed

amazed

antelopes

elephant

monkey

Animal

Read and complete the chart.

1. Why has the antelope in Tibet become an endangered species?

Its fur is being used to make sweaters. As the sweaters become popular, more and more animals are killed . So very few antelopes are left.

2. Why are elephant numbers increasing in

Zimbabwe?

The farmers stopped killing the elephants, so the number is increasing.

Read and answer the questions.

3. How does the government of Zimbabwe

help protect wild animals?

The government helps the farmers. It

makes sure that the tour companies pay

the farmers when tourists come to visit

and hunt a few animals.

4. Why is it important to protect the

rainforest?

Looking after the rainforest helps protect plants and animals we know nothing about. They may make it possible for us to produce medicines and drugs that we don’t yet know about.

Read and complete the chart.

Para-graph

Main idea Supporting details

1 Why we need wildlife protection

1 Animal: Tibetan Antelope2 Situation : being hunted for the fur under its stomach3 Result: numbers are decreasing rapidly

2

1 Animal: 2 Situation:

3 Result:

a good example of wildlife protection

elephants in Zimbabwe previously hunted with

numbers decreasing rapidly

protection by farmers who make money from tourism.

3 and

4

1 Animal:

2 Situation :

3 Result:

Para-graph

Main idea Supporting details

What we can get from wildlife protection

a millipede from tropical rainforest

produces a drug naturally which can protect us from mosquitoes

Daisy plans to tell WWF about the drug.

Free Free talktalk

According to the text, make a

dialogue between Daisy and

Antelope / Elephant / Monkey.

IntervieIntervieww

Suppose you are Daisy. A reporter

of China Daily is interviewing you

about your special travel.

▲ How did you go traveling?

▲ Where did you go at first? Then? Finally?

▲ What animal did you meet there?

▲ What did you find?

▲ How did you feel?

▲ What do you suggest?

Useful patterns and expressions:

▲ I suggest that we should…

▲ It’s important/necessary to do…

fur/hunt /die out/ endangered/ destroy / habitats/

protect…from/ pay attention to

1. Review the text and the new expressions.

2. Pick out the sentences with present progressive passive voice.

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