2015人教版新目标八年级英语下unit-7Section-B-2a-2e-reading.ppt

Unit 7 Reading (Section B 2a-2c) 熊猫是如此受欢迎以至于它们是中国的象征之一。事实上，世界上所有的人们都喜爱这些聪明又可爱的动物。熊猫喜欢吃竹子并且他们主要居住在森林里。然而，熊猫变得越来越少。其中的一个主要原因是人们砍倒了森林。熊猫找不到足够的食物吃。另一个原因是熊猫宝宝经常死于疾病。所以我们必须做一些事情来保护濒临灭绝的动物们。我们可以建立一个教育机构来告诉人们保护熊猫的重要性。另外，科学家们正在为了更好的了解熊猫的习性做研究。中国政府也尽力去帮助救助熊猫。我们都希望未来将会有更多的熊猫。 Before reading What are the pandas doing in the video? Before reading … Food Habitat (栖息地) Appearance milk, bamboo big, cute, black and white, beautiful forest, Sichuan research center /base,zoo wild, popular, lazy, famous, symbol It is 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. 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 to them with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over! Lin Wei, one of the panda keepers, says, “Theyre 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.” In fact, many people around the world love these black and white animals. Pandas have become so popular that they are now a symbol of China. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the forests. Another 300 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries. 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 these forests. As the forests get smaller and other human activities cause more problems, pandas cannot find enough to eat and they are having fewer babies. An education program in Chengdu teaches children about pandas and other endangered wild animals. They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving these animals. And the Chinese gove