1.　　　　 write a passage about an animal in danger in their exercise-books.

4. We should stop using it as a servant, and give it a nice environment to live. We can also have natural reserves for the camel. And we can do something to tell people the importance of protecting it.

Sample version:

The wild Bactrian camel lives in Northwest China Mongolia. It is a large camel and the only species in the world with two humps. There are perhaps 950 left in the wild. But it still works for people to carry many things. And many people sell its skin for money. 　So it is in danger now. We need to protect it. We should stop using it as a servant, and give it a nice environment to live. For example: We can also have natural reserves for the camel. And we can do something to tell people the importance of protecting it.

Step IV Homework

Ask students to

3. We need to protect it.

2. There are perhaps 950 left in the wild. But it still works for people to carry many things. And many people sell its skin for money. So it is in danger now.

1. The wild Bactrian camel. There are perhaps 950 left in the wild for different reasons.

4.　　　 need to do sth.

eg: We need to do exercises.

　 Bob needs to walk home.

Go through the passage by yourself and try to digest the passage, then do Activity 3 on P75 and then after checking the answer, read the sentences together.

Word study

Ask students to do activity 5on P75 and then ask them to read the short passage repeatedly.

Step III Writing (6: P75)

Ask students to read the short passage about panda first and then choose another animal in danger and answer the questions in Activity 6 and write a passage about it.

Sample answers:

3.　　　 less and less

eg: Students have less and less time for playing.

　 People have less and less time to relax themselves.

2.　　　 There be …doing…

eg: There is a boy crying in the corner.

　 There are many people playing on the beach.

1.　　　 one of …

eg: He is one of my good friends.

　 Sally is one of the girls who study hard.

4.　　　 Because the area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. And pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is serious.

Then ask students to read the passage paragraph by paragraph again and explain some of the grammar points in it.