Unit 5

                              

                              

Welcome to the unit

Which animal do I like least? Why?

Wolves. They often make terrible noise in the wild.

Which animals can make wonderful sound?

Birds.

birdsbeak

neck

feather

wing

tail

the smallest bird

• hummer

• 2 grams

the biggest bird

• Ostrich

• About 2 meters high

• Dozens of kilograms

• Cannot fly

• crane

long

beak

white feathers

seagull

long-winged

They are web-footed birds.

• sparrow

smallbrown and gray feathers

swallow long -pointed wings

forked tail

• swan

white

feathers

long thin neck

• golden eagle

brownish

feathers

hooked beak

broad wings

New words • birdwatcher• birdwatch• market• roast• yummy• crane• seagull• long-winged• web-footed• sparrow

swallow• pointed• forked• northern• swan• golden eagle• brownish• broad• hooked

1. It has long pointed wings and forked tail.

2. It has many long things like a beak and a neck.

3. It has brown and grey feathers.

4. It has white feathers.

5. It has broad wings and hooked beak.

6. It has web-footed feet.

swallowswallow

cranecrane

sparrowsparrowswanswan

golden eaglegolden eagle

seagullseagull

Discussion:

Which bird do you like best / least? Why?

Does Eddie like birds?

Listen and answer:

1. What is Eddie doing?

2. Where does Eddie think is the best place to watch birds?

3. Do you agree with Eddie? Why / Why not?

It is going birdwatching.

At the market.

No. Because Eddie wants to eat Beijing Ducks and roast chicken.

Every bird likes its own nest best.

Kill two birds with one stone.

The early bird catches the worm.

Birds of a feather flock ( 聚集 ) together.

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

It is an ill bird that fouls ( 弄脏 ) its own nest.

人皆爱其家人皆爱其家

一箭双雕一箭双雕 ; ; 一举两得一举两得捷足先登捷足先登

物以类聚物以类聚 , , 人以群分。人以群分。

每个人都欣赏自己的话每个人都欣赏自己的话 ; ; 文章是自己的好。文章是自己的好。

家丑不可外扬。家丑不可外扬。

To watch a bird and speak out what it looks like.

Reading

A: Which bird do you like best?

B: I like…best.

A: Why…?

B: Because…

Let’s have a competition and see who can name the birds first.

1. brownish feathers broad wings hooked beak

___________________ golden eagle

2. can talk like a person

___________parrot

3. white feathers and long thin neck

__________swan

4. tall, long legs, long beak and long neck

__________crane

5. long pointed wings, forked tail and flies to northern countries in

summer

____________swallow

6. small brown and grey feathers

__________sparrow

7. long–winged, web-footed, white and grey or black

feathers

________seagull

Wolong Zhalong

Write a T if the sentence is true. Write an F if it is false.

1. Zhalong is a nature reserve in China. 2. Birds can find food easily in Zhalong. 3. Some birds go to Zhalong for a short stay. 4. The birds in Zhalong live in large cages. 5. There are a lot of red-crowned cranes in other parts of the world. 6. Many endangered birds live in Zhalong now. 7. Zhalong needs more people to feed birds. 8. Studying Zhalong helps us learn about protecting wildlife.

T

F

T

T

T

T

F

F

Answer the following questions:

1. Where is Zhalong?

2. Where is Heilongjiang?

3. Is Zhalong Nature Reserve a good place for wildlife?

4. Are there many red-crowned cranes in the world?

5. Why are more and more birds in danger?

It’s in Heilongjiang

It’s in north-east China.

Yes, it is.

No, there aren’t.

Because they don’t have enough space.

Zhalong needs help

Natural homes for red-crowned cranes and visiting birds

Don’t use wetlands for farms and buildings

An ideal home for a lot of plants, fish and birds

More and more birds are in danger

Making records of birds at Zhalong

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Northeast Northwest

Southwest Southeast

1. provide…for… 为……提供 Our school dining-room provides food for us every day.

2. endangered: in a dangerous state

Giant pandas are endangered animals.

3. tourist: visitor

There are many foreign tourists visiting the World

Park in Beijing every year.

4. stay n. v.

He learned a lot during her stay in Japan.

Please stay here till I come back.

5. change n. v.

Why did you make a change to the plan?

Shall we change seats?

7. 用 important, importance 填空

It’s ___________ to learn English well.

Do you know the ___________ of learning English?

important

importance

6. count n. v.

Our school does a student count every term.

Let’s help him count the books.

(1) (2)

(3) (4)

根据课文完成下列短文。

Zhalong is one of the ________ most important ________ ________ it ________ food and ________ for all _________ of plants, fish and birds.

Many birds like ________ in Zhalong Nature Reserve because they can find many fish to ________. There are ________ red-crowned cranes in the world, ________ there are some of them living in Zhalong.

world’swetlands because provides shelter

kinds

living

eat fewbut

为配合国际爱鸟周活动，请你根据下面四幅图画，为英语报 The 21st Century 写一篇保护鸟的英语短文。

Grammar 1

You sing nicely. What did she

say? I don’t know. She spoke very softly.

Do you want to be a member of Bird Watching Club ？

• Form the adverbs.• 1. angry— 2. bad—

• 3. bright— 4. careful—

• 5. clear— 6. close—

• 7. correct— 8. dangerous—

• 9. different— 10. free—

angrily badly

brightly carefully

clearly closelycorrectly dangerously

differently freely

Rearrange the words to make sentences.

• shines / The sun / bright .

• greeted / polite / The zoo keeper / us . • walk / told us to / The teacher / slow / in the Wildlife

Park . • learned to / We / about them / tell people / correct . • talked / We / on the school bus / loud .

The sun shines brightly.

The zoo keeper greeted us politely.

The teacher told us to walk slowly in the Wildlife Park.

We learned to tell people about them correctly.

We talked loudly on the school bus.

Exercises: 1. you can / At Beijing Wildlife Park / close / watch the birds . 2. to your birdwatching place / First walk / quiet . 3. clear / Make sure / from your birdwatching place / you can see . 4. drop litter / careless / Do not . 5. soft / during the watch / You must talk very . 6. in the park / Birds fly / happy . 7. The birds / sing / nice . 8. clear / for you to write your reports / It is important .

At Beijing wildlife Park, you can watch birds closely.

First, walk quietly to your birdwatching places.

Make sure you can see clearly from your birdwatching places

Do not carelessly drop litter.

You must talk very softly during the watch.

Birds fly happily in the park.

The birds sing nicely.

It is important for you to write your reports clearly.

Fill in the blanks with adverbs.

The sun shone as we got on the school bus. We were all very excited. We talked until Mr. Wu told us to be quiet.

When we arrived at Beijing Wildlife Park, the zookeeper greeted us . He told us about all the different birds, and we listened . He told us not to make any noise and not to run. He also told us to walk _____ and not to frighten the birds.

We saw many different birds at Beijing Wildlife Park and we learned to tell people about them .

brightlyloudly

politely

carefullyslowly

correctly

Make up a story.

要求 : Use the adverbs in your sentences.

参考词汇： quickly, softly, gently, beautifully, nicely, angrily, politely, possibly, neatly, badly, correctly, differently, closely, freely, happily, generously, pleasantly, softly, heavily, noisily, carefully, etc.

Grammar 2

Adverbs of manner

Adverbs of manner

• He is always very careful when he drives.

• He drives carefully.

• She speak fluent French.

• She speaks French fluently.

1. wide

2. polite

3. close

4. nice

1. gentle

2. possible

3. trouble

4. simple

true truly

good well

+ ly -e + y

Without changes

1. hard hard high high

2. far far fast fast

3. early early late late

4. long long straight straight

翻译 :1.我在做一项简单的工作。

我很容易地做这项工作。

I am doing an easy job.

I do this job easily.

翻译 :2. 请告诉我一个正确的答案。

请正确地回答我的问题。

Please tell me a correct answer.

Please answer my questions correctly.

翻译 :3. 他喜欢在这种安静的地方静静地看书。

He likes to read books quietly in a quiet place.

翻译 :4. 下次要细心 . 你不能再粗心的

做作业了。Be careful next time. You can’t do the homework carelessly any more.

翻译 :5. 如果我很开心 , 我会很开心地向别人 问候。

If I am very happy, I will greet others happily.

翻译 :6. 这是一个真实的故事，我确实是从一 位老人那里听来的。

This is a true story.I heard about it truly from an old man.

翻译 :7. 这是地道的英国食品。孩子们真的很 喜欢。

This is real English food. The children really like it.

• At Beijing wildlife park, you can watch birds closely.

• First, walk quietly to your birdwatching places.

• Make sure you can see clearly from your birdwatching places.

• Do not carelessly drop litter.• You must talk very softly during the watch.• Birds fly happily in the park.• The birds sing nicely.• It is important for you to write your reports

clearly.

•As the roads are wet, _____________________________________. (very/drives/he/careful)

•Traffic is busy and ______________________________________. (are/the/slow/cars/moving)

•We are staying home ______________________________________. (it/heavy/is/because/raining)

•Bees _________________________________ (always/busy/fly around) looking for flowers.

he drives very carefully

the cars are moving slowly

because it is raining heavily

always fly around busily

•The students _____________________________________. (in/studied/the/library/quite)

•She _____________________________________. (speak/can/fluent/languages/three)

•Mr. Wang is _________________________ (busy/the office/at/working) and will be late for dinner.

•My parents _____________________ (looked at/angry/me) because I lied.

studied quietly in the library

can speak three languages fluently

working busily at the office

looked at me angrily

bright, careful, cheerful, noisy, healthy, sad

1. The man smells the soup ___________.

2. The little girl is crying __________.

3. The sun is shinning ___________.

4. The man on the radio talks ___________.

5. Plants grow ____________ if they get enough

water and sunshine.

6. The boy is eating strawberries ___________.

carefully

sadly

brightly

noisily

healthily

cheerfully

Main task

Questions:

1. How did Amy get interested in the

Birdwatching Club?

2. What are her hobbies and interests?

3. Why does she want to become a

birdwatcher?

4. What are Amy’s favorite subjects?

Paragraph 1:

How Amy learned about the club and that she wants to become a member.

Paragraph 2:

Amy’s personal details such as school, grade, favorite subjects, interests and hobbies.

Paragraph 3:

Why Amy wants to become a member.

Paragraph 4:

Her hope that her application will be successful, and her phone number and e-mail address.

An application

• Application:

• It includes your personal information.

• When you apply,write your important information so that you are known well.

• Tell the truth. The information in your application must be true.

• Up to your aim, some can be ignored.

More examples

Chinese Name: Guoqiang Zhang

　　 English Name: Eddy Zhang 　

　 Sex: Male Born: 6/12/82

　　 University: Beijing University

　　 Major: Marketing

　　 Address: 328#, Beijing University

　　 Telephone: 1398****451

　　 Email: ****@163.com

Personal Information:　　 Family Name: Wang Given Name: Bin　　 Date of Birth: July 12, 1971 Birth Place: Beijing　　 Sex: Male Marital Status: Unmarried　　 Telephone: (010)62771234 Pager: 99900-1234567　　 E-mail: job@sohu.com 　　　 Work Experience:　　 Nov. 1998- present CCIDE Inc, as a director of software development and web publishing .Organized and attended trade shows (Comdex 99) . 　　　　 Education:　　 1991- August 1996 Dept.of Automation, Tsinghua University, B.E. 　　　 Computer Abilities: …

　　　　　

• PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE　　 A position in Civil Litigation within the business or environmental arenas.

• PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE　　 1992-Present Attorney　　 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, P.C., Atlanta, GA1984-1994 Assistant District Attorney　　 ATHENS DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Athens

• 1981-1983 Law Clerk/Assistant Town Council　　 TOWN OF MARIETTA, Marietta, GA　　 General municipal and appellate litigation.

• EDUCATION　　

• Do you want to be one member of the Birdwatching Club? If so, write your letter to the chairperson of the club at once .