1．Finish the following exercises. Encourage the students to find the answers in the passage.(见练习)

5. They are important also because they prevent flood.

Step4 Production

4. Wetlands provide food and shelter for endangered birds.

3. It’s a home of a lot of animals, including different kinds of birds.

2. Zhalong is a good place to go birdwatching.

3. Complete Sandy’s report on Zhalong.

　 First get them check the answers in pairs. Then get several students to read out the passage loudly and check the answers together. And then go through the passage to locate some important sentence patterns that we can use in our writings.

　e.g. 1. It has/ covers an area of more than 210,000 hectares.

2.　　　 Listen and repeat.

1.　　　 Put the information into the sentences and get the students to read the sentences loudly.(P art A on Page86)

5.Check the answers and then do a class survey to see how many students get all the answers right and how many of them got 4 right answers. Praise them.

Step 3 Practice

4. Go through the facts about Zhalong on Page86, and then listen to the tape and tick out the facts mentioned in the tape.