人教版高中英語必修2教案Unit 4 Wildlife protection
iv. reading to answer questionsread the questions in the table below and scan the text to answer them.when did dinosaurs live on earth?when did dinosaurs die out?how did dinosaurs die out?v. listening about the dodohave you ever heard of the dodo, an animal that has also disappeared from the earth?the mauritius dodo (raphus cucullatus, called didus ineptus by linnaeus), more commonly just dodo, was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of mauritius. the dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.next we are going to listen to the tape and do exercises 1 and 2 on page 30 on dodo.vi. speaking in pairs about helping the dodozhao yannan: the dodo was driven to extinction by sailors when they discovered the island of maritius in the 17th century. it is one of the first documented human induced extinctions.zhao yanfei: what a pity that we can not find any dodo now. imagine we are with the dodo, yannan, what could we do to help it? zhao yannan: then i would intend to hide it in a cave, so that sailors could not find it.zhao yanfei: if i were there, i would try to trap them as they were catching and killing the dodo. putting man who is harmful to the dodo in a cage and attacking him is the best way to protect and save the dodo. zhao yannan: i’d like to and i’m ready to, teach man how to be friends with animals, including the dodo. the man and the dodo can be living side by side on the earth. they can be happy together.zhaoyanfei: i would rather not tell you what i think of man. he is selfish and cruel. he cares only for himself and that is why so many animals have disappeared from this earth. putting the bad men in a cage is the only way out, i am sure.vii. closing down by writing to the dodoall right now, boys and girls, to end this period next you are to write a letter or an email to the dodo telling him what you are going to do to save him.by 1681, the last dodo died, and the species became extinct. after hundreds of years, no one recalled what a dodo bird was, and it was regarded as a myth invented by imaginative sailors. it wasn’t until the 1900’s when the bones were found that the dodo was believed to be real.today, the dodo bird is a symbol of the harm humans can bring to other living things if we are irresponsible.part tw teaching resources (第二部分：教學資源)section 1: a text structure analysis of how daisy learned to help wildlifei. type of writing and summary of the ideahow daisy learned to help wildlife