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Module2 Unit2

Wildlife Protection Lead in

The last words of Sudan and picture appreciation. Task: To describe an endangered species and give some advice to protect it.

Step I. Current Situation elephant: 1. Elephants are being killed for the ivory in their mouth. 2. The number of elephants is severely decreasing during the 20th century, largely due to the massive ivory trade.

3. 30 years later, we may have no chance to see two elephant species on the earth. 总结:

ivory:_________________

正在严重减少__________________ 大量的________________

没有机会做

__________________ antelope: 1. We are being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs.

2. Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people.

3. As a result, we are now an endangered species. 总结：

fur _________________

wool __________________

species______________

danger______________(v.)使…有危险

_____________(adj.) 濒临灭绝的

rhino: 1. The rhinos are dying out because humans hunt them to get the rhino horns.

2. After 1922, no one in China saw a Chinese Rhino. 3. The number of rhinos has been decreasing by 90 percent in the past 40 years.

4. Poaching(非法狩猎) causes the biggest threat to rhinos. 总结：

灭绝

______________

die

______________ (过去式)

____________ (过去分词) ___________(现在分词) __________(adj.) __________(n.)

威胁

______________(n.)

_____________(v.) tiger: 1. Only 3800 wild tigers are still living in the world. 2. Tigers are in danger because of the competition with humans for space. 3. Their habitats have been destroyed and fragmented(破碎) by human activities and the climate change. 总结：

处在危险之中

_____________

竞争(v.)

_____________

______________(n.)

栖息地被毁坏_____________________________________

Step II. Wildlife Protection 1. WWF (World Wildlife Fund) 2. Brainstorming: How to protect the wildlife?

Step III. Useful Sentence Patterns: 1. Read the passage and pay attention to the underlined sentences: Protecting the Environment

Environmental problems are becoming more and more serious all over the world. For example, cars have made the air unhealthy for people to breathe and poisonous gas is given off by factories. Trees on the hills have been cut down. Furthermore, wherever we go today, we can find rubbish carelessly thrown away. Pollution is, in fact, threatening our existence. The earth is our home and we have the duty to take care of it for ourselves and for our later generations. We are supposed to raise people’s awareness to protect the environment. Measures should be taken to cope with these problems by the government. Meanwhile, making laws is necessary to deal with them.

I hope the problem will be solved in the near future and our home will become better and better.

2. Challenge yourself. a. …is becoming…

b. …is threatening …

c. furthermore,…/besides,…/what’s more,…/moreover,…

d. be supposed to…

e. raise people’s awareness to…

f. It is adj. (necessary/meaningful) for sb. to do…

g. sth. should be done to…

h. have the duty to do sth…

Step IV. Task Write at least 5 sentences to describe an endangered species (2) and give some advice to protect it (3).

(Use as many chunks we have learned as possible.)

Homework: Write a letter to give advice about how to protect wildlife. (about 120 words)