文档介绍：Listening,speaking
and writing
True or false
There are many different species of dinosaur and all of them have been found in China.
Not long ago, a rare new species of bird-like dinosaur was discovered in Henan Province.
Some scientists are sure dinosaurs died out because the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live on any more.
Dinosaurs died out quickly about 65 million years ago and many animals have died out in the same way.
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Listening
1. Listen to the tape and choose the correct answer plete each 1
key: 1. C 2. D 4. C
2. Which is the best for describing what happened? P30 2
key: 2. This story is about why the dodo disppeared.
Listen again and fill in the blanks.
Once upon a time, I lived on earth too. I was called “dodo”. My home was an island _______ Mauritius. I was curious and kind-hearted and quite ___________ ______ most of the other animals there. I liked to make friends with the other animals and never quarreled. I had no _________. My best friends were the other birds, the monkeys and all the other dodos of course. There were many of us. We were birds too but we were _______ and only had _______ ________. My favourite activity was to _________ along the beach and wait till the __________were ready to be eaten.
called
different from
enemies
large
small wings
wander
insects
One day a new animal came to my island. It was called man and ____ ________we seemed to be good friends. Man followed me everywhere and I gave him some of my insects to eat. But one day I ___________ where my other dodo friends were. Several of them seemed to have_____________. I asked the other birds and the monkeys. They all said the same thing. “Your friends _______ ________ __________ and killed while you are walking on the beach.” Had man eaten them? I could not believe it. So I asked my friend, man, if it was true. He seemed surprised. “I have not seen the other dodos lately.” he said, “Perhaps they _____