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Period 61. Unit 10: Nature in danger
lesson 1: reading

I. Before you read

READ THE FACTS ABOUT ENDANGERED SPIECES AND DISCUSS
THE QUESTIONS BELOW.

Once found throughout
Africa and Asia, Cheetahs
['t∫i:tə] loài báo gêpa) are now
only scattered ['skætə] phân
bố throughout east Africa
Scatter (v)= distribute

READ THE FACTS ABOUT ENDANGERED SPIECES AND DISCUSS
THE QUESTIONS BELOW.

• PANDAS
• It is estimated that
only 1,000 pandas
remain in the wild.

READ THE FACTS ABOUT ENDANGERED SPIECES AND DISCUSS
THE QUESTIONS BELOW.

• There are only about
20 Siberian tigers
left in the wild in
China and about 100
live in Chinese zoos
and national parks.

TIGER

Discuss the questions

1. What do you understand from the facts
above?
2. Can you explain why the numbers of
these animals have become small?

I. Before you read
1. What do you understand from the facts above?
The facts above show that the numbers of some
wild/rare animals such as cheetahs, pandas and
Siberian tigers become small/ extinct.
2. Can you explain why the numbers of these animals
have become small?
The numbers of these animals have become small
because they are killed for food, skin or fur.

You are going to read about how
we have destroyed our
environment and affected other
species and what we can do to
save endangered animals. Then
you do the tasks that follow

Vocabulary
• Human race (singular noun)
• Human beings (plural noun)
• Exist (v): to be real

= people

Eg: Does life exist on other planets?

(Exist is not used in the progressive tense. )
- To exist on something: tiÕp tôc sèng, sèng nhê vµo…
Eg: They can't exist on the money he's earning.

Existent ( adj )
Existence ( n )
• Co-exist (v) : live together (co- means “together” )
•
Have an influence on = have an effect on
Eg: Bad weather has strong influence on agricultural
production.

1. Vocabulary

- destroy /distrɔi/ (v) phá hủy, tiêu diệt
- destruction /distrʌk∫n (n) sự phá hủy, su tiêu diệt
- prohibit /prə'hibit/ (v) = ban, not allow cấm
- offspring /ɒfspriη /(n) = a child con của một con vật
- result in /ri'zʌlt/ (n)-v đem lại kết quả, kết quả
- influence /'influʊəns/ (v,n) ảnh hưởng, sự ảnh hưởng.
- environment /in'vɑiərənmənt/(n): môi trường
- industry /'indəstri/(n): công nghiệp
- agriculture /'ægrikʌlt∫ə(r)/ (n) nông nghiệp
- survive /sə'vaiv/ (v): sống sót,tiếp tục sống
- interference /intə'fiərəns/ ( n ) sự can thiệp

- pollutant /pə'lu: tənt/(n): chất gây ô nhiễm.

- consequence /'kɒnsikwəns/ (n): hậu quả
- rare /reə/ (adj)
hiếm, ít có
- decrease /di'kri: s/ (v):
giảm, giảm xuống
- endangered (adj) /in'deindʒəd(r)/ gặp nguy hiểm
- disappear /disə'piə/ (v):
biến mất
- protect / prə'tekt/ ( v)
bảo vệ
- laws
/lɔ: / (n)
luật pháp

Read the passage in silence.

II. While you read

II. While you read
Task 1: The words in the box all appear in the passage.
Fill each blank with a suitable word.
Pollutants
Interference
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

decreasing
extinct

protect
endangered

extinct million of years ago.
Dinosaurs became _______
She tried to ______
protectherself from the wind.
This species of bird is ______
in numbers every year.
decreasing
The chemical ______
from cars and factories make the
air, water and soil
dangerously dirty.
pollutants
The blue whale is a(n) _______
species.
Because of the _______ endangered
of human beings, many
interference
animals have become
extinct.

Task 2: Circle A,B,C or D that best sums up
each paragraph.
1. Paragraph 1
A. Human beings need to grow food.
B. Human beings pollute the
environment.
C. Human beings interfere with nature.
D. People should stop living in cities and
villages.

2. Paragraph 2
A. Many animals are disappearing.
B. Human beings are responsible for the
changes in the environment.
C. People are in danger of becoming extinct.
D. The human race is also an endangered
species.

3. Paragraph 3
A. Human beings have made efforts to
protect the
environment.
B. Scientists have made a long list of endangered species.
C. People should be kept away from animals and plants.
D. Rare animals do not disappear.

4. Paragraph 4
A. The survival of endangered species.
B. The Earth- a happy planet.
C. Conditions for a peaceful co-existence.
D. People's interference with the
environment.

Task 3: Answer the questions
1. What are the fours ways by which human
beings are changing the world
(paragraph 1)
2. What are the serious consequences of
people's interference with the environment?
(paragraph 2)
3. What has been done to protect the
environment?
(paragraph 3)

Task 3: Answer the questions
1. Four ways that people change the world are:
- They are changing the environment by
building cities and villages.
- They are affecting the water supply by
using
water for industry and agriculture.
- They are changing weather conditions by cutting
down trees in the forests.
- They are destroying the air by adding
pollutants like smoke from factories and fumes
from cars.
(paragraph 1)

Task 3: Answer the questions
2. The serious consequences of people's
interference with the environment are:
- Many kinds of rare animals are killed.
- The environment where these animals are
living is badly destroyed.
- The numbers of rare animals are decreasing
so rapidly that they are in danger of
becoming extinct.
(paragraph 2)

Task 3: Answer the questions
3. Many things have been done to protect endangered
nature, such as:
- Many organization have been set up and
money has been raised to save rare
animals .
- Thousands of national parks have been
established.
- Laws have been passed to prohibit killing
endangered animals.

(paragraph 3)

After you read

Work in groups of 4.

In your groups, one of you acts as a TV
reporter and the others as scientists.
The TV reporter will interview the
scientists about the reasons why some
animals such as cheetahs, tigers,
pandas are disappearing and some
have become extinct.
The reporter will have to write down
the ideas.

What do you think
about the reasons
why wild animals
disappeared?

???

I think
people
hunt or
capture
them for
many
purposes…

homework