初中英语人教版八年级下册Unit 7 Section B

Work in pairs to remember the underlined words and phrases.
useful words and phrases
翻译下列的短语。
1. 成都研究基地 Chengdu Research Base 2. 醒着 be awake 3. 兴奋的跑过去 run over with excitement 4. 走路时撞到一位老人 walk into an old man 5. 绊倒 fall over 6. …….的一个象征 a symbol of… 7. 大约100公斤 one hundred kilos or so 8. 死于某种原因 die from… 9. 拯救动物的重要性 the importance of saving animals try hard to do sth. 10. 努力做
4. What does the education program in Chengdu do? They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving pandas and other endangered wild animals. 5. Why are scientists doing research? They hope to better understand the habits of pandas.
3. Adult pandas do not have babies very often and some of the babies only live _____, illnesses for a short time because of _________. 4. A special program in Chengdu teaches children ________ about why pandas are endangered ___________. 5. The Chinese government is helping to save the pandas. Scientists also want _______ to better ____________ understand the habits of pandas.
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Complete the sentences using words from 2d the passage.
keepers at the Chengdu 1.The panda _______ Research Base are awake early in the prepare breakfast for the morning to ________ baby pandas. fact pandas have become so 2.In ______, ___________ popular that they are now a symbol of China.
activities
food
What do you know about pandas?
birth
Look like
Panda
habits
living environment
Groupwork,小组合作 2a Talk about pandas in your class. Use these words to help you.
2c Read the article again and underline the answers in the text. 1.What is Lin Wei’s job? He is a panda keeper. 2. What do the baby pandas have for breakfast? Baby pandas drink milk for breakfast.
GROUP WORK
Read the new words as loud as you can in groups of six.
Words Review
bamboo n. 竹子 endangered adj. 濒危的 research n.&v. 研究；调查 keeper n. 饲养员；保管人 excite+ awake adj.ment( 醒着名词后缀) excitement n. 激动；兴奋 walk into 走路时撞着 fall over 绊倒
in the forest Fewer than 2000 __________________
Amount of food Pandas
Number Try to retell the story in zoos or research centers 300 _______________________ of pandas
Work in groups of six.
2e What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas? For example: 1. Do not bother the pandas and let them live peacefully in the wild. 2. Volunteer to do some work helping to protect the pandas. 3. To do some advertisement about protecting the pandas.
3. Why are pandas endangered? Pandas are endangered because they do not have many babies, and the babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. As the forests get smaller and other human activities cause more problems, pandas cannot find enough to eat and they are having fewer babies.
Read the passage again and fill in the blanks.
Baby pandas one every two years Only ______________________
Babies often die from ________ illnesses
kilos of bamboo a day 10 __________________
Now let’s read the article to get more information about pandas. Then finish the following tasks.
scanning的技巧：在回答问题 时，根据题干中问到的内容，在 文章中scan(扫描)，可以准确地 定位，找到答案。
Work in pairs. Tell your parter what the Scanning (扫读 )：即直接搜寻数字，然后阅 Reading the article to find out what 2b numbers mean with complete sentences. 读数字前后的内容，确定数字表达的信息 these numbers mean: 10, 12, 300, 2,000.
10 — Adult pandas eat 10 kilos of bamboo daily. 12 — Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating. 300 — About 300 pandas live in zoos or research centers in China or other countries. 2000 — Scientists say there are fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the forests.
Work of six. Take turns big in groups bamboo zoo to tell a story about pandas. popular cute black and white
Sichuan famous endangered Each student in your group picks two words or phrases from the list to make sentences beautiful forest protect about pandas in your story-telling.
Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Section B Period Two
1. To read and understand the material on pandas 2. To learn to scan the passage to get specific information 3. To know the importance of saving endangered animals 4. To learn new words: bamboo, endangered, research, keeper, awake, excitement, walk into,fall over ,or so, illness, wild, government.
according to the column.
Ways to protect pandas
Teach _______. children Tell them about the __________ importance of saving pandas. Scientists are doing research to better understand the habits of pandas ____________________________.
be awake:_____________ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้ 醒着的
2.Choose the right answers
Tom _______ from his bike yesterday. A.fell down B.fell over C.fell off fall over :向前摔倒、跌倒。不接宾语 fall down:滑倒、倒下。后接宾语时应加上 介词from. fall off :跌落，从……掉下来。后直接接宾 语 I saw the little girl fall over. The girl is falling off the bike =The girl is falling down from the bike.
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Words Review
ill + ness(名词后缀) or so 大约 illness n. 疾病；病 wildgovern+ adj. 野生的 ment(名词后缀) government n. 政府；内阁
Lead-in
The giant panda is known as the national treasure of China. 大熊猫被称为中国的“国宝”。
1.翻译下列对话并说出红色字体单词的意 思。 Mum: Jim,please help me wake your sister up. Jim: Wake her up?She woke up one hour ago. Mum: Is she asleep now? Jim: No,she is still awake. 醒来；叫醒某人 wake up/wake sb. up:_____________