Unit 10. Endangered species

Look at the pictures and answer the questions
1. Which of the animals and insects can be found in Vietnam?
2. Which of them are in danger of extinct?

parrot
tortoise
rhinoceros
monkey
elephant
leopard
frog
mosquito
3. What are the reasons?
Matching
Unit 10: Endangered species

A: Reading
Vocabulary
Primary [`praiməri]
- Toxic [`tɔksik]
Contaminated [kən`tæmineit]
Fertile [`fə:tail]
Vulnerable [`vʌlnərəbl]

(adj): chính
(adj): có độc
(adj): bẩn

(adj): màu mỡ
(adj)dễ bị tổn thương

Unit 10: Endangered species ► Reading


Unit 10: Endangered species ► reading► Task 1
Matching words with definitions
a. The existence of a large number of different kinds of animals and plants which make a balanced environment.
Extinction
2. Habitat
b. The act of preventing something from being lost, wasted, damaged or destroyed
3.
Biodiversity
c. A situation in which a plant, an animal, a way of life, etc. stops existing.
4.
Conservation
d. The natural environment in which a plant or an animal lives.
c. A situation in which a plant, an animal, a way of life, etc. stops existing.
a. The existence of a large number of different kinds of animals and plants which make a balanced environment.
b. The act of preventing something from being lost, wasted, damaged or destroyed
d. The natural environment in which a plant or an animal lives.
1. D
P2 - L2: Over 8,300 plants and 7,200 animals …
2. B
(P2-L1,2: The primary causes of species extinction are habitat destruction, commercial exploitation and pollution)
3. A
P4-> L2,3: The Red List – a global list of endangered and vulnerable …
4. A
5. B
P4 -> L6,7: … a wide range of endangered
species can have a chance to survive ..
Unit 10: Endangered species – Reading - Task 2
Choose the best answer:
Unit 10: Endangered species - reading - Task 3
Finding evidence
3. There are a number of ways to help save endangered species.
1. Pollution is one of the main causes of species extinction.
2. Species diversity has provided humans with so many essential things.
P 4
P2: Line 1,2
P3

Endangered species

Post reading:
causes
consequences


Habitat destruction
Commercial exploitation
Pollution
The drainage of wetlands
Deforestation
Urbanization
Road and dam construction

Loss of biodiversity
Having a serious
Impact on the ability of remaining species
solutions
Introducing the Red List to raise people’s
wareness of conservation needs.
Enacting laws to protect wildlife from commercial trade and overhunting.
- Developing wildlife habitat reserves.



Learn by heart the new words.
Do "reading" part in sts` book.
Unit 10: Endangered species - reading