3.　　　 less and less

eg: Students have less and less time for playing.

　 People have less and less time to relax themselves.

2.　　　 There be …doing…

eg: There is a boy crying in the corner.

　 There are many people playing on the beach.

1.　　　 one of …

eg: He is one of my good friends.

　 Sally is one of the girls who study hard.

4.　　　 Because the area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. And pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is serious.

Then ask students to read the passage paragraph by paragraph again and explain some of the grammar points in it.

3.　　　 The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better.

2.　　　 Bamboo.

1.　　　 Because the area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons.

4. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger.

Post-reading

Ask students to read the passage and try to answer the questions in Activity 4 on P75.

Sample answers:

3. Our government is working hard to save pandas. (Help for pandas.)

2. Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. (The panda’s home.)