Endangered animals

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1. Don’t Let Them Disappear
2. Associative words to the word “Earth”
3. Michael Jackson “Earth Song" Released November 27, 1995
4. Quotations • Mother planet is showing us the red warning light – “be careful” – she is saying. • “Look after this planet, it’s the only one we have” (Prince Philip of Britain) • To take care of the planet is to take care of our own house.” (The Dalai Lama) • “ In the eyes of nature we are just another species in trouble”
5. Objectives • Today we are going to talk about environmental protection, review the basic needs of all living things. • Explore some of the reason why living things become extinct. • Identify some of the things people can do to prevent endangered animals from becoming extinct. By the end of the lesson I think you • will be able to develop our common strategy how to help all living things; • will be more aware of some endangered species.
6. Vocabulary Practice • Environment is the land, water and air in which people, animals and plants live • Destruction is the act or process of destroying something • To endanger means to put someone or something in a dangerous or harmful situation • Natural habitat is a place where an animal or plant is normally found • Extinct (of an animal or plant species) means having no living representative • To pollute is to make air, water, soil, etc dangerously dirty. • Waste means things you no longer want. • To survive means to continue to exist. • Shortage is the situation in which there is not enough of something that is needed. • To dump means to drop or put something somewhere in a careless way. • Damage is an injury or harm impairing the function or condition of a person or thing • To threaten means to express a threat to (a person or people)
7. Reading
8. The IUCN Red list
9. Reading
10. Reading 1 2 3 4
11. Endangered Species in the Carpathian Mountains Some 400 bison were reintroduced in the area after disappearing 200 years ago, but they are now threatened by in-breeding. The European bison
12. The wolf population had continued to increase slowly and, according to official numbers, reached about 3,100 individuals in 1996.
13. Bears Bears are considered of high priority in conservation. Given their dependence on large natural areas, they are important management indicators for a number of other wildlife
14. Lynx The lynx population in the Carpathians is officially estimated to be about 2,500 - the densest in Europe.
15. A chamois mountain antelope Chamois is a goat-antelope species native to mountains in Southern Europe. The leather is harvested from this animal and is sewn into the crotch of a cyclist's shorts or knicks to help prevent chafing.
16. Discussion Three basic things to survive: • Shelter • Water • Air
17. Listening