Transcript Warm-up Activity

My Favorite Animal
Contents
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Warm-up Activities
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Brainstorming
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Evaluation
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Assignments
Warm-up Activity
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Listen to part of a conversation
What are the questions and how
does the candidate answer them?
Describe your favorite animal
You should say:
What the animal is
How you know about it
What you know about it
Why you like this animal so much.
Listen again and summarize.
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It will obey you if you understand it.
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They are not lazy animals like cows.
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They eat hay and some grass,
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They will behave well
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if you treat them properly...
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because I think it's a graceful animal.
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hardworking and humble.
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a horse is most beautiful and fun.
Brainstorm
Lion
Panda
Elephant Horse
Practice
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Describe the animals with their
habits and characteristics
Examples:
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Lion is fierce. It’s king of the prairie.
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Elephant has a really long trunk.
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Horse is a hardworking animal.
Characteristics of animals
Lion
Panda
1.Very tender
2. Huge with a long trunk
3. Has sharp teeth
4. Is hardworking
5. Eats lots of bamboo
6. Has a good memory
7. Is proud and fierce (凶猛)
8. Has a long tail
9. Is always popular at zoos
10. Has sharp claws
Elephant
Horse
11. Is very lazy
12. Has thick fur
13. Eats leaves
14. Hunts deer
15. Is a domestic animal
16. Is nearly extinct
17. Represents China;
mascot (吉祥物)
18. Can be ridden
19. Is lovable
20. Is popular with children
Wild Animals
Dangerous or Endangered?
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extinction
灭绝
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ecosystem
生态系统
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endangered species 濒危物种
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animal rights
动物的权利
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poach
偷猎
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natural habitat
自然栖息地
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conservation
保护
Animals Vanished
Endangered species
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Grant Panda
熊猫
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Tibetan antelope
藏羚羊
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Golden Monkey
金丝猴
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Manchurian tiger 东北虎
Siberian tiger
（西伯利亚虎）
Why are the animals endangered?
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Reasons:
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Habitat are destroyed by natural forces and human
activity.
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Hunted and killed
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Human activities
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Deforestation
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Pollution
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Pestisides
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Hunting
Human beings KILL animals
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beautiful furs
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decoration
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sculpture
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medicine
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delicious dish
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hunt for fun
How can we save them?
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Save the animals from human being’s greedy
appetite.
Stop hunting the precious survivors of the
endangered animals.
Contribute to nature reserves.
Restore natural habitats for the threatened
species.
Protect environment and buy environmental
friendly goods.
Save the animals, save the world, save
ourselves.
Pets
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Rabbits
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Mammal
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size: thirty centimeters long
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distinctive: long ears & hind legs
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run fast, escape from predators,
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eat plants,
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gentle
Advantages of keeping Pets
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For company
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Spark an interest in
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Forms of life
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Sense of responsibility
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Care for
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Feed properly
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Cherish life
Evaluation
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extinction
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behave
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ecosystem
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train them properly
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endangered species
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humble
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natual habitat
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fierce
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conservation
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thick fur
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domestic animal
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mascot
Assignments
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Sentence making
Make sentences with the words we’ve learned today.
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Group debate
Make a debate on the advantages and disadvantages
of keeping pets.
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Make a speech
Make a speech, urging people around you to join in
the protection of animals.