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课件网) Unit 6. Fantastic friends 人类的发迹史，就是一部其他动物的灭绝史。 —《人类简史》 Reading for writing As dead as a dodo Lead-in Do you know these animals Did you see them Can we see these animals in the zoos Passenger pigeon （旅鸽） Falkland Islands / f kl nd/ wolf (福克兰群岛狼) Atlas bear (阿特拉斯棕熊) Tasmanian tiger /t z me n n/ (塔斯马尼亚虎) Died out! Why Pre-reading As dead as a dodo The dodo bird's life on an island. The dodo’s extinction(灭绝） and its lessons. The impact of human activities on wildlife. Look at the pictures: What’s the main idea of this text While-reading Are you looking at me Do you know me I’m a dodo! You may think I'm just a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Actually, there used to be thousands of us -for real. But now you can only see us in museums. 1.Why is dodo “just a character” to some readers --We can’t see dodo in real world now. Because they died out. 2. Where can we see dodo now While-reading We lived on an island in the Indian Ocean. In the happy old days, there was plenty of food to eat. All the other animals were friendly. What a peaceful and safe life! However, in 1598, humans arrived. They cut down the trees and our lovely forest was gone. They hunted us because we were slow and couldn't fly. What's more, their pigs, cats and dogs ate our eggs. As a result, we soon died out. Animal ID Card living place life of dodo ability 能力 reasons of dying out an island in the Indian Ocean happy, peaceful, safe slow and couldn't fly humans’ arrival (n.) While-reading So today we are standing in museums around the world. When you see us, please remember our sad story. The world is full of fantastic animals. Please try your best to help them. Make them as happy as a clam, not as dead as a dodo. What do “as happy as clam” and “as dead as a dodo” mean “As happy as a clam” means feeling very pleased/happy; “As dead as a dodo” means completely extinct or no longer in existence. Post-reading sayings with animals A.as happy as a clam B.as dead as a dodo C.as busy as a _____ D.as faithful as a _____ E.as quiet as a _____ F.as brave as a _____ 1. Your way of remembering English words is ___. You’d better try better ways of learning words. 2. My daughter comes into her bedroom ____ and sleep. 3. Aunt is ____. She is still at work till late at night. 4. Look! George is playing games in the gardern, ____. 5. Her servant never left her. He was _____ 6. Herny is thin, but he is _____. bee dog mouse lion B E C A D F post-reading 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 What is the structure of this passage 4 2. Why does the writer write this passage Post-reading Retell the sad story of dodo Dodos lived on an 1_____ in the Indian Ocean. There was plenty of 2_____to eat and all the other 3. _____were friendly. 4. _____arrived in 1598. They cut down the 5_____and hunted dodos. Their pigs, cats and dogs ate the dodos’ 6_____. Dodos soon died out. Today, people can o ... ...
