2a Talk about pandas in your class. Use the words to help you.

big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect

What do you know about

pandas

10 12 200 2,000

2b Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean:

Reading strategy(阅读策略 ):

Scanning

This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information.

10 – Adult pandas eat 10 kilos of bamboo daily.

12 – Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating.

200 – About 200 pandas live in zoo or research centers in China or other countries.

2,000 – Scientists say there are fewer than 2000 pandas living in the forests.

2cScan the article again and write short answers to the questions.

1. What is Lin Wei’s job?

Lin Wei is a panda keeper.

2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast?

Baby pandas drink milk for breakfast.

3. What do adult pandas eat?

Adult pandas eat bamboo.

4. Why are pandas endangered?

Humans started cutting down bamboo forests, causing pandas to have fewer places to live (in) and less food to eat.

5. What is one way of saving pandas?

One way is to plant more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for pandas to live in.

2d 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.

2. Adult pandas do not have babies very ________, and some of the babies only live for a short time because of _________.

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.

keepersprepare

often

illnesses

bamboo forests

childrenendangered

governmentplanting

Baby pandas

Pan

das

Amount of food

Number of pandas

Ways to protectpandas

Only _______________________

Babies often die from___________

10____________________ a day

2,000 _______________________

200_______________________

Teach ___________. Tell them aboutthe ___________ of saving pandas.

The Chinese government _______________________. There will be

__________________ to live in.

one every two years

illnesses

kilos of bamboo

in the remaining forests

in zoos or research centers

children

importance

is also planting more bamboo trees.

more forests for pandas

2e What other ways to do you think children can help to save the pandas?

Important phrases:

feel freeas far as I knowin the face ofeven thoughat birth up to run overwalk into fall overor so

随意就我所知面对（问题、困难）即使；虽然出生时到达跑上前去；跑过去走路时撞着绊倒大约

为……而准备每隔两年照顾死于疾病花时间做某事砍伐一个教育项目濒危动物一种方式对……有特殊意义

prepare forevery two yearstake care ofdie from illnessspend time doing sth.cut downan education programendangered animalsthe way tobe special to sb.

1.写一小文章：How do you protect the endangered anim

als?

2. 完成作业本第 4课时。