2014春季学期八年级英语下册第七单元Section B.ppt

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 _____ 0.1 _____ 0.2 ______ 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 complete the sentences. pink 0.2 15 0.1 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 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 a.m., 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 speci