3.　　　 The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better.

2.　　　 Bamboo.

1.　　　 Because the area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons.

4. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger.

Post-reading

Ask students to read the passage and try to answer the questions in Activity 4 on P75.

Sample answers:

3. Our government is working hard to save pandas. (Help for pandas.)

2. Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. (The panda’s home.)

1. The panda is one of the animals most in danger. (An animal in danger.)

2. Key structures 重点句式

Pandas have less and less land to live in.

Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in.

Need / work to do sth.

Ability goals 能力目标

Enable students to read and write about animals in danger.　

Teaching methods 教学方法

Reading and writing.

Teaching aids 教具准备

A tape recorder.

Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Warming-up

In this procedure, get students to do Activity 1 on P74, and say what they know about pandas.

T: Hello, everyone. In the first period, we talked about animals in danger. Today, we will learn something about our lovely “panda”. First I’d like you to say something about it.

S: I know that pandas only live in China.

S: There aren’t many pandas living in the world. And our government has made many reserves to protect them.

S: The most important point is that everyone should love pandas and protect them.

…

T: Yes, sure. So now let’s look at the situation of pandas now.

Step II Reading (2: P74)

In this procedure, students will read the passage on P74 and finish Activity 2.

Check the answer. 　

Reading strategies 　

T: When we read a passage, we often first find its topic sentence in each paragraph. All of the topic sentences work for the main idea of the passage in a reasonable order to form a nice passage. Usually the topic sentence in a paragraph is the first or the last sentence. Sometimes, it is in the middle. And rarely, we need to summarize it by ourselves. For example: In this passage, the first three paragraphs’ topic sentences are the first sentences of each paragraph. And in the last paragraph, we can find the topic sentence by reading its main idea and summarize.

Find the clues:

1. Key vocabulary 重点词汇

southwest, mainly, live on, reason, less and less, situation, symbol, turtle, cause, feed

2.　　　　 learn the words on pages 186-189.

Period 3 Reading and writing

Language goals 语言目标