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课件网) Unit5 Save the endangered animals （Writing） Learning objectives By the end of this class, you will be able to: 1. undersand the structure of a fact file and realize the importance of the subheadings. 2. know more details and describe the features of animals. 3. write a fact file of an animal. Guess: What animal is it It is huge. It is grey. It eats grass, leaves and bananas. It has long teeth. What do you know more about it Asian elephants Appearance Home Food Behaviour Life Huge, grey 54oo kilograms, 3.2 meters tall in the grasslands and forests grass, leaves and fruits in large groups 60 years Why are elephants in danger They are losing their homes because people are cutting down forests. Some people are killing them for their teeth. (Possible answer) People are polluting their homes. Discuss how you can help the Asian elephants. · make speeches /reports/posters on protecting Asian elephants in our school. · advise our parents not to buy the products from ivory. · use the internet to call on people to protect them. · organize our classmates to watch a film about it. · write letters to our government to enlarge elephant reserves (保护区)... Write a fact file about the endangered animal you have chosen. South China tigers Polar bears Asian elephants Blue whales Endangered animals Giant pandas Asiatic lions We need you to write more fact files about endangered animals. 1: Read the information of the cards. 2: Fill in the map with key words. Asiatic lions An Asiatic lion is a kind of lion which is big and brown. They weigh up to 250 kilograms and are 1.39 meters tall at the shoulder. They prefer forests to dry grasslands and almost of them live in the Indian. They usually hunt other animals such as deer to eat. They often move in large groups. They can live an average of 20 years, but most of them only can live 13 to 17 years. People are cutting down plenty of trees that they have no places to live. They also die because of the serious diseases. So it is urgent for us to protect them. Polar bears Polar bears are the largest land carnivorous(食肉) animals in the world. They weigh up to 500 kilograms and are 1.5 metres tall at the shoulder. Polar bears live in the Arctic. They love to eat fish and shrimp. They often move on the water and on glaciers. And they can live about 30 years old. They are in danger because of the global warming and people’s killing. Southern China tigers They weigh up to 140 kilograms and 2.5 metres long. They live in tropical rain forests and mountain forests in southern China. They usually eat boars and deer. They live in an independent way. Each tiger owns their territory. Southern China tigers which live in the wild generally live 13 to 15 years. People kill them for their fur and bone. Blue whales Blue whales are the largest animals in the world. They are over 30 meters long and weigh up to 200 tons. They live in the sea, but they are not fish. Blue ... ...
