Unit 8 Animals in danger

1. Unit 8 Animals in danger

2. Try to complete the passage ousin hile W____ Zhenhui and her c_____ were playing at their grandmother’s house one day,they s______ heard a loud c____ at the window.They ran o_____ but couldn’t find anything. And then they saw a bird l_____ in a dark c_____.The bird has b_____ its wing and it was in p____ so Zhenhui’s cousin wanted to k____ it. But Zhenhui said that they could not kill the bird because birds and animals were l_____ things and they could m____ its uddenly rash utside ying orner ain roken ill end iving

3. Try to complete the passage arefully p_____ the bird up and put it c_______ into the box.She didn’t know h_____ to mend i_____ wing and her grandmother told her that Mrs Lu, a woman in n______ street, could l______ after s_____ animals and she knew how to mend bird’s wing. Then Zhenhui l_____ the bird w_____ Mrs Lu and from t_____ on, Zhenhui would v______ the bird and b_______ some s______ for it.She could also look after Mrs Lu’s a_______. icked ow ts ext ook ick ith eft isit hen ring eeds nimals

4. Try to remember these • Zhenhui doesn’t know how she can mend the bird’s wing. • Zhenhui doesn’t know how to mend the bird’s wing. • I don’t know where I can go. • I don’t know where to go. • Can you tell me what I can do? • Can you tell me what to do? • I’m not sure when I will meet you. • I’m not sure when to meet you.

5. American Buffaloes saved

6. Passenger Pigeons dead and gone forever

7. millions of , thousands of , hundreds oftwo million, five thousand, ten hundred • There are more than six ____________ students in our school. • We can see ____________ people swimming in the sea. • There are ______________ books in our library. • ______________ people go to visit the Great Wall every day. • I have about two______________ books. hundred hundreds of thousands of Millions of hundred

8. Can you give the English? • 到现在为止, 还在下雨。 • By now, it is still raining. • 到现在为止,我还没读完这本书. • By now, I haven’t finished reading this book. • 到了1880年,几乎没有旅鸽留下. • By 1880, there were nearly no Passenger Pigeons left. • 到了1890年,世界上仅有550只美国野牛. • By 1890, there were only 550 American Buffaloes in the world.

9. at the end of & by (the end) of By the end of • _____________ this week, we’ll finish Unit8 in Book 4. • _____________ this month, we’ll have a test. • _____________ this term, we have learned four books of English. • _____________ this term, we’ll have our final exams. At the end of By the end of At the end of • by (+ time)到… …为止, 在… … 之前 (相当于by the end of ) • at (+ time)在… …为末尾, 在… … 结束之前

10. none & neither None • There are seven teachers in my office. ______ of us are men. • She has two sisters, but _______ of them is taller than her. • Sally likes swimming and running, but Janet likes _________ of them. • I think _________ of you have been to the USA. • none (表示三个以上之中) 一个也没有 • neither (表示两个之中) 两者都不 neither neither none

11. Try to remember these stopped from killing Zhenhui asked her cousin not to kill the bird. Zhenhui ________ her cousin ______ ______ the bird. We should ask them not to fight each other. We should stop them from fighting each other. They made other people not kill American Buffaloes. They stopped other people from killing American Buffaloes. The teacher made the children not swim in the river. The teacher stopped them from swimming in the river. stop sb. from doing sth.= make sb not do sth; ask sb not to do sth 阻止某人干某事

12. Listen and answer these two questions • Part 1:Whenand where did the last Passenger Pigeon in the world die? It diedin a zoo in 1914. • Part 2: Why were people killing American Buffaloes at that time? They were killing themnot onlyfor their meatbut alsofor their skins. • 不但学生而且老师都喜欢动物。 • Not only the students but also the teachers like animals. • 不但她，还有她妈妈，都喜欢游泳． • Not only she, but also her mother likes swimming.

13. Read and answer questions • 1.How many Passenger Pigeons and American Buffaloes once lived (used to live) in the USA? Millions of Passenger Pigeons and twenty million American Buffaloes. • 2. How many were there by 1890? There were nearly no Passenger Pigeons and only 550 American Buffaloes. • 3.How many are there in the world now? There are no Passenger Pigeons and there are thousands of American Buffaloes. • 4. What happened to the Passenger Pigeon? They all died because people killed most of them. • 5. What saved the American Buffaloes? People stopped other people from killing them.

14. Passenger Pigeon millions of USA flew north • In 1850, __________ these birds lived in the _______. Every year, they ___________to _______ the summer in Canada. They flew in ________. These groups were sometimes so _______ that they ______ the sky black. Then people began to move from _________ to the USA to live. These people soon ______ that these birds were good ________ and easy ________. They killed them so_______ that _____ 1880 there were nearly _______ left. The last Passenger Pigeon in the world _______ in a _____ in 1914. spend groups large turned Europe learned to eat quickly to kill by none died zoo

15. American Buffalo ago in danger • A hundred years _____, American buffaloes were ____________, too. People were killing them ________ for their meat __________ for their skins. Once, there used to be _______________ of them but by 1890 there were only 550! People saw they were _____________ and worked hard to ______ them. They ________ other people from ________ them. Slowly, the population of these animals began to ______ again. Today, there are many ______________ them. not only but also twenty million in danger save stopped killing grow thousands of

16. Find the answers to the following • 向北飞去 fly north • 成组地飞 fly in groups • 从欧洲到美国 from Europe to the USA • 处于危险的境况之中 be in danger • 这些鸟好吃。 These birds were good to eat. • 阻止其他人捕杀动物 stop other people from killing animals