1、Project Project Telling a mysterious Telling a mysterious storystoryListening&ReadingQ1:In which year were Yetis seen?Q2:Where have Yetis or similar creatures been seen?Q3:What has been reported about Yetis?Q4:What do scientists think of Yetis?Q1:In which year were Yetis seen?Q2:Where have Yetis or
2、similar creatures been seen?In 1998.Yetis have been seen on the Chinese side of the Hmalayas and in the Shennongjia National Forest Park in western Hubei Province.Q3:What has been reported about Yetis?man-like,heavily built,hairy-black fur huge shoulders,6 feet tall,long armslarge handsmove with ama
3、zing speed and strengthwalk like a manQ4:What does an American scientist think of Yetis?He became convinced that they exist.Main idea of each paragraph:n Para 1:Yetis are reported to have been seen all over the world.n Para 2-4:Descriptions of Yetis in different places.n Para 5-6:Scientists differen
4、t opinions abort Yetis.n Para 7:Scientists hope to find the truth.n Yeti,Bigfoot and the Wild Man of Shennongjian For centuries,people have reported seeing a wild creature in the Himalayas called Yeti.The Yeti is said to be a large,hairy animal that walks on two feet like a human being.People blieve
5、 that Yetis sometimes come down from the moutains to attack villagers.n In 1998,an American moutain climber said that he saw a Yeti on the Chinese side of the Himalayas.It walked like a human,but it had thick black fur and was about six feet tall with huge shoulders,very long arms and large hands,he
6、 said.n In 2007,an American TV team saw Yeti tracks 33 centimetres in length in the snow near Mount Qomolangma.They made copies of these tracks and had them examined by a scientist in the USA.n He reported that they looked like the tracks of a similar creature,called Bigfoot,which some people believ
7、e lives in the forests of the north-west of the USA.n Yeti and Bigfoot are similar to a creatureknown as the Wild Man of Shennongjia.There have been dozens of reports that people have seen a Wild Man in the Shennongjia Nature Reserve in western Hubei Province,China.In one case,agroup of engineers ra
8、n after the creature,which moved with amazing speed andstrength.n Large tracks have also been discovered which some people say belong to the Wild Man.Because of these reports and the tracks,there have been several organizedsearches for this creature,but no strong evidence for its existence has ever
9、been found.n Dr Grove Krantz,a scientist from Washington State University,studied reports of such strange creatures for many years.He became convinced they exist.He believed that these creatures are linked to a common ancestor,an animal that lived in Asia some 300,000 years ago.In his opinion,this animal made its way to other parts of the world,and continues to surviveeven today.n Scientists hope the mystery will be solved one day.If such creatures really exist,we might have the chance to see one with our own eyes.
