Unit 6 Animal Intelligence.pptVIP

Unit 6 Animal Intelligence Text A Animal Intelligence Topics: 1. A story about your pet or a pet that you know 2. How do animals show their intelligence? 3.Which way do you think is the best way to do experiments on animal intelligence? 4. Do you believe animals have true love? Discussion Tasks on text 1 Does the author agree that doing experiments designed to teach animals human signs the best way to study their intelligence? From which sentence? 2 Why does Colo only give Jendry a link of the key chain? 3 How does Chantek try to eat all the grapes without sharing with others? 4 why does Orky let one of the men stand on his head? 5 How did Melati managed to get more oranges? 6．简述一下第二段在文中起的作用。 7．作者为什么安排第六段，用意何在？ Text Analysis—Transition 1) headings and subheadings 2) conjunction 3) anaphora (前指) by fulfilling the following questions: a) What does “it ”in the first line of Para. 4 refer to? b) What does “the problem” in Para. 10 refer to? c) What does “this whole trick ”in Para. 12 refer to? Background 1. Gorilla 2. Chimpanzee 3. The Orangutan Gorilla Orangutan The Orangutan spends most of its life in trees, searching for its favorite foods, figs, mangoes, and other fruits. It eats other plant parts, as well (leaves, bark, flowers), and insects and possibly even eggs. The Orangutan feeds during the day and then builds itself a temporary nest high in a tree to bed down for the night. It has become seriously endangered over the years, as its favored forest habitat has been logged. The few numbers left are constantly in danger of poachers, people who illegally capture the animals to sell to zoos. (图1)A large ape with very long arms and long shaggy reddish-brown hair. The face is wide and nearly hairless, with a large snout. Male has thick cheek pads Chimpanzee Chimpanzee The Chimpanzee and its relative the Bonobo are more closely related to humans than to any other ape. Chimpanzee communities number from 20 to 105 apes, but group members wi