1、初中英语人教版八年级下Unit7 Whats the highest mountain in the world?Section B（1a-2e）Warm-up1Presentation2Language Points3Exercise4Compare facts about these two animals.Use the language in the box to help you make sentences.Elephant is 350 cm tall weighs 5,000 kilos eats 150 kilos of food a dayWarm-upDiscussPan
2、da is 150 cm tall (standing on two legs)weighs 100 kilos eats 10 kilos of food a dayExample sentences:This elephant weighs many times more than this panda.(200 cm taller/shorter,weigh much more/less,eat much more/less,eat many times more)Listen and check()the numbers you hear.100 16 20 50120 0.1 0.2
3、 150 Presentation1bListen again and complete the sentences.1.At birth,a baby panda is about _ to _ kilos.2.At birth,a baby panda is about _ cm long.3.A baby panda is not black.It is _ and it has no _.4.A panda can live up to _ to _ years.0.10.215pinkteeth20301cTake turns telling your classmates abou
4、t pandas.A:A baby panda cannot see.B:An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda.Pair workHere are some facts about koala,use the information above to make sentences.Koala is 75 cm tall weighs 10 kilos eats leaves sleeps 20 hours a dayDiscussionTalk about pandas in your class.Use these w
5、ords to help you.big,bamboo,zoo,popular,cute,black and white,Sichuan,famous,endangered,beautiful,forest,protectRead the article and answer the questions.1.What is Lin Weis job?2.What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast?3.What do adult pandas eat?A panda keeper.Milk.Bamboos.4.Why are pandas endanger
6、ed?5.What is one way of saving pandas?Less forest for pandas to live.Teaching children.Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage.1.The panda _ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake very early in the morning to _ breakfast for the baby pandas.keepersprepare2.Adult pandas do not
7、 have babies very _,and some of the babies only live for a short time because of _.oftenillnesses2d4.A special program in Chengdu teaches_ about why pandas are _ and how to save them.endangered5.The _ is also helping to save the pandas.Its _ more trees to make more homes for the pandas.Chinese gover
8、nmentnecessary to plant 3.Another reason for fewer and fewer pandas is because people are cutting down_ so pandas have fewer places to live.treeschildren1.At birth,a baby panda is about birth v.出生 at birth 出生时 e.g.Mans nature at birth is good.人之初，性本善。give birth to 生（孩子）；产生 e.g.My aunt gave birth to
9、a beautiful baby girl yesterday.昨天我婶婶生下一个漂亮的小女孩。Language points2.A panda can live up to 20 to 30 years.up to 到达（数量，程度等）；不多于 e.g.In some area of Africa,children get educated up to 12 years old.在非洲的一些地区，孩子最多受教育到12岁。3.they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall
10、over!run over 跑上前去walk into （走路时意外）撞上fall over 摔倒；倒下e.g.1)She ran over to say hello,but I didnt recognize her.2)As he was thinking too deeply and not playing attention to where he was going,he walked straight into a tree.3)Dont run too fast,or you might fall over.4.Scientists say there are now fewer
11、 than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests.living in the remaining forests 是一个现在分词短语，用做定语，修饰pandas。e.g.the girls singing under the tree 树下唱歌的女孩们 the women washing clothes by the river 河边洗衣服的女人们Discuss what other ways you think children can help to save the pandas.DiscussionExercise1.A panda eats 10_(kilo)of food a day.2.A panda_(eat)bamboo every day.3.This elephant weights_(好几倍)than this panda.4.A panda can _(活到)20 to 30 years.5._(出生时)，it is pink and very small.live up toeatskilosmany times moreAt birthFill in the blanks.Homework:Make a list about how to save pandas.
