师：Okay, nice to meet you here. This is my first time in this city, but I'm sure we'll have a wonderful lesson. Now, check the passage on your desk. I think most readers will be drawn to the four pictures among the words. Let's check them one by one. Picture one shows an animal. What does it look like? A ship? It's an animal like a deer with long legs and horns that runs very fast. We call it an antelope. Repeat after me: antelope. Good.
In picture two, there are several elephants. We're familiar with them, so let's move on. Picture three looks like a dog, but it's actually a monkey. You can't find this kind of monkey in China. And in the monkey's hand, there's something. It's a long, thin creature with many legs called a millipede. Repeat after me: millipede. This word is easy to recognize and remember. Let me explain. “Million” means a large number, like when a person has a lot of money, we call them a millionaire. And “pede” in the dictionary is related to “foot” or “feet”. A millipede has a large number of legs.
Next, we see a panda in the picture with WWF. Its full name is Worldwide Fund, an international organization for wildlife protection. It's a common way to abbreviate an organization, like the United States of America is usually called USA. So, WWF is for wildlife protection. That's all about the four pictures.
Now, let's look at the title: “How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife”. The first keyword, Daisy, is not the flower Tao Yuanming liked, but the name of a girl in this story. “Wildlife” refers to animals living in the wild, not at home. So, it's a story between a girl named Daisy and wildlife, including antelope, elephant, monkey, and millipede. But we still don't know when and where the story happened. Read the passage quickly and find the time, place, and also the missing element in the last row.
How about the monkey? Now, let's check the time. It's very easy to find in paragraph 1. Tell me together. When did the story happen? Right, one day. It's a common story beginning. And the places? Where can we find the antelope? Tibet. Good. Where can we find the elephant? Zimbabwe, a country in Africa. Great. And the monkey? In the rainforest. Maybe from South America. Good.
The last row is important. It takes Daisy to many places. What is it? A flying carpet. Good. Now we know the time, place, and the role, but we don't know what happened to the animals and how Daisy felt. Read the passage again and find out.
Here, let's check what happened to the animals. Hongqi, tell us what happened to the antelope.
生：They are being killed for the fur beneath their stomachs, which is used to make sweaters for people like Daisy.
师：Good. They're being killed a lot. Sigh. So, they're killed for their fur. How does Daisy feel? Huanxin? Daisy should feel very sad. Sad about so many killings. Good.
As for the elephant, next boy, what happened to the elephant?
生：The farmers hunted us without mercy. But because of the government's action, the number of elephants is increasing.
师：Good. In the past, they were an endangered species, but now the number is increasing year after year. And the monkey? What is the monkey doing?
生：A monkey is rubbing a worm called millipede around itself.
师：To cover its body to protect itself from mosquitoes. Good. We're surprised by this. In paragraph 3, “amazed” means very surprised. We feel very surprised about the monkey.
Now, let's talk about the structure of the passage. Work in pairs. You two have different versions. The difference is two important sentences. Put your passages together, turn around, and find the two missing sentences. Sentence 1, find it quickly.
生：I, flying carpet. Please show me a place where there's some wildlife protection.
师：That's it. Sit down. And the second one in the monkey part. Find it together.
生：The cabbage rose again and at once they were in a thick rainforest. It shows the importance of wildlife protection, but I'd like to help as the WWF suggests.