TEENS 初三20-21学年第44期总第662期教案

王珊

 

 

Keep out bad animals (P2)

 

 

I. Warm up

    

     Look at the picture:

 

1. What do you see?

2. Do they look like normal ants? How are they different?

 

The red imported fire ant (红火蚁), first found in China in 2004, is causing problems here.

What problems might they cause?

 

     

II. Reading

Pre-reading

Look at the title and predict. What will the article be about?

 

Part I 

 

Read Paragraphs 1 and 2 and fill in the chart.

 

 

 

 

Part II

Read Paragraphs 3-6 and answer the questions.

1. Is biosafety important?

Yes.

2. What problem does China suffer from?

China has suffered from bioinvasion.

3. How many alien species are there in China?

The country has more than 660 alien species.

4. What does the CGTN report tell us?

Seventy-one of them have harmed or could harm the natural ecological system.

5. What does bioinvasion cause?

This results in economic losses of 200 billion yuan every year.

 

Read Paragraph 5 and fill in the chart.

 

 

Part III

Read Paragraphs 7-8 and choose the answer.

1. What do people need to do if they want to bring animal species into China?

A. They have to ask for approval.

B. They have to pay for them to enter China.

C. They need to keep them away from other people.

D. They need to set them free after a period of time.

A

 

2. Are foreign animal species allowed in China?

No, they are not allowed to be free in China.

 

3. What will happen if someone breaks the law?

Those who break the law will be fined up to 250,000 yuan.

 

4. Who should be responsible for biosafety?

Both the government and people are responsible for biosafety.

 

IV. Post-reading

What is the passage about?

A. Pet adoption in foreign countries.

B. International travel with pets.

C. China’s new Biosafety Law.

D. Bioinvasion in China.

C

 

 

Further thinking

Design a poster to explain the biosafety law to your community. 

 

 

V. Words in use

Complete the sentences using the given words and phrases.

adopt   suffer from   harm   result in   be responsible for   

1. There are fewer people in China _________ poverty.

2. Pollution can ________ marine life.

3. The little girl begged her father to________ the puppy.

4. The government should __________ unemployment.

5. A preference for junk food will _________ obesity.

 

suffering from

harm

adopt

be responsible for

result in

 

Language Points

I. Learn the following useful phrases.

传染病预防和控制

入侵物种

外来物种

自然生态系统

未经批准

 

1. infectious disease prevention and control

2. invasive species

3. alien species

4. natural ecological system

5. without approval

 

 

 

II.

China’s new Biosafety Law, which went into effect on April 15, answers this question.

长难句辨析：

Which 在这里引导的是非限制性定语从句，指代的内容是前面所讲的 “China’s new Biosafety Law” 。

 

Those who break the law will be fined up to 250,000 yuan.

长难句辨析：

Who 在这里引导的是限制性定语从句，指代的内容是前面所讲的“those” 。