广州牛津七下u.ppt

Unit 4 Trees in our daily lives More practice Free talk: How much do you know about trees? Interesting facts about trees The oldest tree in the world with 9,500 years The biggest tree in the world, with 85m high and 31 m wide The biggest forest in the world: The Amazon Rainforest Read the passage on P54 and finish the following passage The Amazon rainforest lies in South America and it is the rainforest in the world. It covers about 5.5 square kilometers of the Amazon Basin（盆地）It is so big that countries share it. The rainforest is very important to Earth, because it is to many living things such as: plants, birds and . Nowadays , the rainforest is in danger because of the .It means people are cutting down more and more trees. Can you imagine life in the Amazon? Work in pairs to talk about life there. A:Can you imagine life in the Amazon rainforest? B: Yes, they live in grass house and A: How do they usually get outside? B:They go everywhere by and A: How do they usually work? B: They still use traditional tools to and . A: How do they usually do shopping if they need something? B: They ( what do they may need?/ Where can they find them? Watch the news about shopping in the rainforest and tell something about shopping there. You can take some notes like: a Need: . b Where: . c How to get them: . Life within the Amazon Rainforest: Shopping Group work: Shopping within the Amazon rainforest I think shopping within the Amazon rainforest can be: 1 Difficult: because there are no cities, no towns, no department stores, people have to buy things on an island in a cub under a big tree 2 Interesting: because I can eat and drink on a boat on the river on my way home, with