【大猫英语分级阅读 九级】Animal Ancestors 动物祖先

Pages 16-21
• Did the giant short-faced kangaroo have short arms or long arms?
• How did the sabre-toothed cat prey? • Why couldn't the terror bird fly? • How did ຫໍສະໝຸດ Baiduhe terror bird prey?
Review the features of the animal ancestors
walked like a bear
largest ever flying bird
had a long neck
Review the features of the animal ancestors
had fur to keep it warm
kangaroo • the Agentine bird • the Indirk beast • the sabre tooth • the in-between dog
Worksheet 1
Worksheet 2
The timeline
the middle horse
40 million years ago
九级课件
九级 1
Animal Ancestors 动物祖先
• 动画片《冰河世纪》片段
Big Cat TV
• When did the story happen? • What animal were they? • Have you ever seen them before? • How much do you know about them?
2 million the terror years ago bird
the in-between dog
9 million years ago
the giant short-faced kangaroo
50,000 years ago
54 million years ago
the Pakistan whale
30 million years ago
the indirk beast
5 million years ago
the Argentine bird
Find the locations of the ancestors on the map.
Pages 4-9
• Why is the in-between dog called the bear-dog? • Which animal ancestor was the largest ever
flying bird? • What does "remains" mean in the sentence
“The remains of this huge bird were found in Argentina, in South America” on Page 6? • Which animal ancestor was the largest mammal to walk on land?
only 52cm high could walk on land
Review the features of the animal ancestors
had a long claw had two long teeth on each hind foot
couldn't fly
• Which animal ancestor do you like best? Why?
• Who is the writer? • What are the animals on the front cover?
How many animals are mentioned in the book? What are they? Which animal are you most interested in? Why?
Guess the meaning of the underlined words:
① They are now extinct but their relatives live on. (Page 2)
② Fossils like this tell us what the ancestors of today’s animals looked like. (Page 2)
Read after me
• Amphicyonid • Indricotherium • Argentavis • Mammoth • Mesohippus • Pakicetus • Procoptodon • Smilodon • Titanis
• the middle horse • the terror bird • the Pakistan whale • the earth mole • the giant short-faced
• Can you imagine what would happen if some of the animal ancestors were still alive?
How do we know what animal ancestors looked like?
• How does the writer show us the sizes of these animal ancestors?
• Can you guess what the ancestors of these animals looked like?
Pages 10-15
• Why did some mammoths have long fur? • How did mammoths protect themselves from
attackers? • Is the middle horse bigger or smaller than
present horses? • How could the Pakistan whale walk on land?