What can you see in these pictures?
Unit 10: nature in danger
lesson 1: reading
Before you read
READ THE FACTS ABOUT ENDANGERED SPIECES AND DISCUSS THE QUESTIONS BELOW.













CHEETAH

Once found throughout Africa and Asia, Cheetahs are now only scattered 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.












TIGER
There are only about 20 Siberian tigers left in the wild in China and about 100 live in Chinese zoos and national parks.
Discuss the questions
What do you understand from the facts above?
Can you explain why the numbers of these animals have become small?


Suggested answers
The facts above show that the numbers of some wild/rare animals such as cheetahs, pandas and Siberian tigers become small/ extinct.
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)
= people
Human beings (plural noun)
Exist (v): to be real
Eg: Does life exist on other planets?
(Exist is not used in the progressive tense. )
To exist on something: tiếp tục sống, sống nhờ vào.
Eg: They can`t exist on the money he`s earning.

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.
Vocabulary
Set up (v)= establish, build
Eg: Many international organizations have been set up.
Destroy (v)
Destruction (n)

Prohibit (v) = ban, not allow

Offspring (n) =a child
Eg: She is the offspring of a nurse and a teacher.
Result in
Read aloud these words
Human race
Human beings
Exist
Have an influence on
Result in
Set up
Destroy
Destruction
Prohibit = ban
Offspring
Co-exist

Read the passage in silence.
While you read
Task 1: The words in the box all appear in the passage. Fill each blank with a suitable word.





Dinosaurs became _______ million of years ago.
She tried to ______ herself from the wind.
This species of bird is ______ in numbers every year.
The chemical ______ from cars and factories make the air, water and soil dangerously dirty.
The blue whale is a(n) _______ species.
Because of the _______ of human beings, many
animals have become extinct.
Pollutants decreasing protect
Interference extinct endangered
extinct
protect
decreasing
pollutants
endangered
interference
Task 2: Circle A,B,C or D that best sums up each paragraph.
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.
Task 2: Circle A,B,C or D that best sums up each paragraph.
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.
Task 2: Circle A,B,C or D that best sums up each paragraph.
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.
Task 2: Circle A,B,C or D that best sums up each paragraph.
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
What are the fours ways by which human beings are changing the world
(paragraph 1)
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
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.
I think people hunt or capture them for many purposes…
What do you think about the reasons why wild animals disappeared?
???
homework