【正文】 e is ______________________________ in the class. taller than any other student any other + 名詞單數(shù) less expensive cheaper than as expensive as is a very large Island .It is the second _________ island in china. (large) teacher is as ______ as before. (busy). is ______________ among us. (careful) Lei jumped far ______ than Jim. (far) busier he is, the ________ he feels. (happy) think Yao Ming is one of ____________ basketball players in NBA. (hot) busy the most careful farther happier largest the hottest 三、完成句子 Homework ?Practice with your classmates to speak and write large numbers. ?Write some number cars and put them in your room. Whenever you see, read them quickly. Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? 1a. Compare facts about these two animals. Use the language in the box to help you make sentences. Example sentence: 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) This elephant is 200 cm taller than this panda. This elephant weighs 50 times than this panda. This elephant eat much more than this panda. 1b. Listen and check (? ) the numbers you hear. _____100 _____ 16 _____ 20 _____ 50 _____ 120 _____ _____ ______ 150 ? ? ? ? ? 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. 1c. Listen again and plete the sentences. pink 15 teeth 20 30 1d. Take turns telling your classmates about pandas. A: A baby panda cannot see. B: An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda. big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect 2a. Talk about pandas in your class. Use these words to help you 2b. Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10,12, 200， 2,000. Scanning This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information. It is 8:30 . at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 ., they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry. When the babies see the keepers, they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over! ―They’re so cute and lovely. I take care of them like they’re my own babies. I wash, feed and play with them every day. They’re very special to me.‖ Lin Wei loves her job, but it is a difficult one. Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to cut down the forests. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests. Another 200 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries. An education program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about pandas and other endangered animals. They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving these animals. The children sing songs or make artwork about pandas and other wild animals. Teaching children is one way to help save pandas. The Chinese government is also planting more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for pandas to live in. We all hope that in the future there will be a lot more pandas than now. is Lin Wei’s job? 2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast? 2c. Scan the article again and write short answers to the questions. He is responsible for taking care of the pandas, Including washing, feeding, playing with them. They drink milk for breakfast. 3. What do adult pandas eat? 4. Why are pandas endangered? 5. What is one way of saving pandas? They eat bamboo. On one hand, the baby pandas don’t live long because of illnesses。 On the other hand, pandas feed on bamboo, but humans cut down the bamboo forests. Teaching children the importance of saving pandas / Planting more bamboo trees. 1. The panda __________ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake very early in the morning to _________ breakfast for the baby pandas. 2. Adult pandas do not have babies very __________ , and some of the babies only live for a short time because of ___________. 2d. Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage. keepers prepare often illnesses 3. Another reason for fewer and fewer pandas is because people are cutting down ____________ so pandas have fewer places to live. 4. A special program in Chengdu teaches ___________ about why pandas are _______ and how to save them. 5. The____________________ is also helping to save the pandas. It is _____________ more trees to make more homes for the pandas. forests children endangered Chinese government planting 2e. What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas? 3a. Read the following words and phrases about whales. Put them in the correct place in the chart. ?Humans catch whales for meat, fat and oil ?Eat small fish and other sea life ?Jump high out of the water ?Rules on whale protection ?Huge ?Water pollution ?Live in the sea ?Some kinds have teeth ?Learn more about whales ?Stop putt