15 Helping Hippos Look at the picture and

多维阅读第 15级 Helping Hippos

Look at the picture and guess. 1. What is the animal in the picture? 2. What do you know about hippos? grass in the river friends? enemies?

Look at the title and guess. 1. Why do you think hippos need help? Helping Hippos 2. What may happen to them? Karen is sad. What happened to the hippo? If you were Karen, what would you do?

Read pp 4 -9 and answer. 1. Why were there not as many hippos as there had been in Africa? no rain, drought, river dying up, Less place to live in. starving Nothing to eat.

Read pp 4 -9 and answer. 2. What did Karen do to help hippos? Things to eat. put food in the river Place to live in. made waterholes build a dam

Read pp 10 -13 and answer. What things does Karen know about hippos? Hippos like. . .

Read pp 10 -13 and answer. What things does Karen know about hippos? If a hippo charges. . .

Read pp 10 -13 and answer. What things does Karen know about hippos? Hippos make tracks. . .

Read pp 10 -13 and answer. What things does Karen know about hippos? Hippos keep the grass short. . .

Discuss in groups. 1. Why do you think hippos are important? List at least two reasons. 2. If Karen didn’t help the hippos, what would happen to them?

Discuss and draw. What do you know about hippos? Please draw a mind-map about hippos and introduce it as the role of Karen.

Discuss and complete the mind-map. Please complete the mind-map and introduce it to the class. Hello, everyone. I'm. . . Today I want to introduce something that happened in Africa. . .

Discuss in groups. 1. What put the hippos in danger? 2. What can we do to prevent that?

Thank you!