Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Welcome to our class Section B Period One1a-2a 洪山镇中心学校 李德会

Objectives To learn to use comparatives to compare facts about elephants and pandas This panda is 200 cm shorter than this elephant. 2. To listen for specific information about numbers 3. To be able to talk about pandas 4. To learn new words: weigh, birth, adult…

Try to describe the elephant using the information above. Do you know? Elephant is 350 cm tall weighs 5,000 kilos eats 150 kilos of food a day For example: 1. This elephant is 350 cm tall. 2. It weighs 5,000 kilos. 3. It eats 150 kilos of food a day. Try to describe the elephant using the information above.

is 150 cm tall (standing on two legs) Do you know? Panda is 150 cm tall (standing on two legs) weighs 100 kilos eats 10 kilos of food a day For example: 1. The panda is 150 cm tall when it is standing on two legs. 2. It weighs 100 kilos. 3. It eats 10 kilos of food a day. Try to describe the panda using the information above.

Compare facts about these two animals Compare facts about these two animals. Use the language in the box to help you make sentences. 1a 注意: 要分别用两种动物作主语 Example sentence: This elephant weighs many times more than this panda. (200 cm taller / shorter, weigh much more / less, eat much more / less, eat many times more.)

For example: 1. This panda is 200 cm shorter than this elephant. 2. This elephant eats much more than this panda. 3. This panda eats much less than this elephant.

0.2 16 0.1 150 100 120 50 20 Can you read the numbers below? sixteen zero point one 16 zero point two 0.1 150 100 one hundred and fifty one hundred 120 50 20 one hundred and twenty fifty twenty

Listen and check ( ) the numbers you hear. Predict what’s the relationship between the numbers and what we’ll hear. √ 1b Listen and check ( ) the numbers you hear. √ √ ____ 100 _____ 16 _____ 20 ____ 50 ____ 120 _____ 0.1 _____ 0.2 ____ 150 √ √ √

Listen again and complete the sentences. At birth, a baby panda is about ___ to ___ kilos. At birth, a baby panda is about ____ cm long. A baby panda is not black. It is _____ and it has no _____. A panda can live up to ___ to ___ years. 0.1 0.2 15 pink teeth 20 30

Try to make cards for adult panda and baby panda Try to make cards for adult panda and baby panda. You can use the cards in 1a as examples. Then work in pairs and compare the adult panda and baby panda.

Pairwork 1d Take turns telling your classmates about pandas. For example: A: A baby panda cannot see. B: An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda.

Language points 1. An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda. “倍数+比较级+than…” “……比……(大/小/长/短……)几倍” Practise 这个盒子比那个大三倍。 This box is three times bigger than that one.

2. weighs 5,000 kilos 重5000千克 weigh: vt. “称……的重量” weight: 不可数名词，“重量，分量” Practise 他称了一下这条鱼。 He weighed the fish. 这只羊的重量是多少？ What’s the weight of the sheep?

3. At birth, a baby panda is about 0.1 to 0.2 kilos. 出生时，一只大熊猫宝宝大约0.1到0.2 千克重。 *at birth: “出生时” birth: 不可数名词，“出生，诞生” *at birth = when it was born, 在句中常做时间状语 出生时这个婴儿大约三千克。 At birth, the baby was about three kilos.

4. A panda can live up to 20 to 30 years. 大熊猫能活到20 至30 岁。 up to: “达到（某数量、程度等）；至多有；接近于” 房间里多达20人。 There are up to twenty people in the room.

翻译下列句子。 刚出生时，熊猫宝宝大约有15公分长。 大象比这个熊猫要重许多倍。 我的苹果要比妹妹的多三倍。 At birth, a baby panda is about 15 cm long. The elephant weighs many times more than this panda. My apples are three times more than my sister’s.

2a Talk about pandas in your groups ,use these words to help you and write them down, then show your compositions to our class. big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect

Review 课时重点回顾 1. 倍数+比较级+than… This elephant weighs many times more than this panda. An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda.

Homework Let’s enjoy Michael Jackson’s Earth Song together and talk about what we can do to protect our earth and save the endangered animals.

Thank you!