My Favorite Animal Contents Warmup Activities Brainstorming Evaluation

My Favorite Animal

Contents ¡ Warm-up Activities ¡ Brainstorming ¡ Evaluation ¡ Assignments

Warm-up Activity Listen to part of a conversation ¡ What are the questions and how does the candidate answer them? ¡ Describe your favorite animal You should say: What the animal is How you know about it What you know about it Why you like this animal so much.

Listen again and summarize. ¡ It will obey you if you understand it. ¡ They are not lazy animals like cows. ¡ They eat hay and some grass, ¡ They will behave well ¡ if you treat them properly. . . ¡ because I think it's a graceful animal. ¡ hardworking and humble. ¡ a horse is most beautiful and fun.

Brainstorm Lion Panda Elephant Horse

Practice ¡ Describe the animals with their habits and characteristics Examples: ¡ Lion is fierce. It’s king of the prairie. ¡ Elephant has a really long trunk. ¡ Horse is a hardworking animal.

Characteristics of animals Lion Panda 1. Very tender 2. Huge with a long trunk 3. Has sharp teeth 4. Is hardworking 5. Eats lots of bamboo 6. Has a good memory 7. Is proud and fierce (凶猛) 8. Has a long tail 9. Is always popular at zoos 10. Has sharp claws Elephant Horse 11. Is very lazy 12. Has thick fur 13. Eats leaves 14. Hunts deer 15. Is a domestic animal 16. Is nearly extinct 17. Represents China; mascot (吉祥物) 18. Can be ridden 19. Is lovable 20. Is popular with children

Wild Animals Dangerous or Endangered? ¡ extinction 灭绝 ¡ ecosystem 生态系统 ¡ endangered species 濒危物种 ¡ animal rights 动物的权利 ¡ poach 偷猎 ¡ natural habitat 自然栖息地 ¡ conservation 保护

Animals Vanished

Endangered species ¡ Grant Panda 熊猫 ¡ Tibetan antelope 藏羚羊 ¡ Golden Monkey 金丝猴 ¡ Manchurian tiger 东北虎 Siberian tiger （西伯利亚虎）

Why are the animals endangered? ¡ Reasons: ¡ Habitat are destroyed by natural forces and human activity. ¡ Hunted and killed ¡ Human activities ¡ Deforestation ¡ Pollution ¡ Pestisides ¡ Hunting

Human beings KILL animals ¡ beautiful furs ¡ decoration ¡ sculpture ¡ medicine ¡ delicious dish ¡ hunt for fun

How can we save them? ¡ ¡ ¡ Save the animals from human being’s greedy appetite. Stop hunting the precious survivors of the endangered animals. Contribute to nature reserves. Restore natural habitats for the threatened species. Protect environment and buy environmental friendly goods. Save the animals, save the world, save ourselves.

Pets ¡ Rabbits ¡ Mammal ¡ size: thirty centimeters long ¡ distinctive: long ears & hind legs ¡ run fast, escape from predators, ¡ eat plants, ¡ gentle

Advantages of keeping Pets ¡ For company ¡ Spark an interest in ¡ Forms of life ¡ Sense of responsibility ¡ Care for ¡ Feed properly ¡ Cherish life

Evaluation ¡ extinction ¡ behave ¡ ecosystem ¡ train them properly ¡ endangered species ¡ humble ¡ natual habitat ¡ fierce ¡ conservation ¡ thick fur ¡ domestic animal ¡ mascot

Assignments ¡ Sentence making Make sentences with the words we’ve learned today. ¡ Group debate Make a debate on the advantages and disadvantages of keeping pets. ¡ Make a speech, urging people around you to join in the protection of animals.