Complete the sentences using the words in the box.
| Teeth wings neck mane legs hair fur feathers heads leaves hoof horns |
1. Two…are better than one.
2. Ann has the most beautiful…
3. Sharks have big sharp…
4. A giraffe has a very long…
5. Peacocks have long blue-green tail…
6. The long hair on the neck of a horse or lion is called a…
7. The…of palm-trees are very big and ever-green.
8. A…is the hard part of a house’s foot.
9. The…of a deer are very elegant.
10. Eagle’s…are very big and strong.
11. Polar bear’s…is as white as snow.
12. An ostrich has very long…
Complete the text with the words in the box.
| Ears eyes teeth mouth legs claws fur hay blind back tame |
The rabbit
The rabbit is very pretty. It has a grey or white warm coat of ...1... Its …2… are long and stand up straight. They are ready to catch the slightest sound.
If you open a rabbit’s ...3.., you will find it full of sharp …4... With them the rabbit can bite off the sweet fresh grass.
The rabbit’s food is cabbage leaves, corn, and ...5….
When the young rabbits are born, they have no fur, and they are quite …6…. But the fur soon begins to grow, and in about nine days they open their …7…. The young rabbits are merry little creatures, and play with one another just as children do. Wild rabbits live in holes which they make in the ground. They dig out the sand with their strong fore …8… and sharp …9…. Their home is called a burrow.
Here the rabbit makes its nest. It pulls the fur from its own …10… to make a warm nest for its young ones. Rabbits are very friendly and many hundreds of them live together.
People can easily …11… the rabbit. Many people in the country keep rabbits on their farms.
Match the adjectives with the nouns.
Adj.: warm, long, slightest, sharp, merry, strong.
Nouns: ears, teeth, legs, creature, sound, coat.
Complete the sentences.
1. The rabbit is …
2. Its ears are ready …
3. In its mouth there are …
4. It eats …
5. The young rabbits …
6. Wild rabbits live …, which are called …
7. To make a warm nest, the rabbits …
8. People can easily …
What can these creatures do? Match A and B to make sentences.
Example: Eagles can fly at a great height.
| A Monkeys Leopards Dogs Camels Whales Snakes | B swim very long distances run very fast charge their skin understand lots of human commands travel through the desert for long distances without water eat fruit from all trees |
What kind of noise do these animals make? Match the nouns with the proper verbs.
Example: A cat meows.
A: Cat elephant lion mouse cow frog horse cock pig dog sheep
B: meow low bark trumpet croak neigh bleat roar squeak grunt crow
Match collective nouns in A with the names of animals in B.
Example: a flock of birds
| A swarm pack herd pride colony | B wolves bees lions ants elephants |
2.9 Whose babies are these? Make up sentences according to the example:
Example: A cub is a fox’s baby.
A: Fox goat sheep dog elephant goose pig duck fowl
B: cub calf kid gosling duckling chicken (chick) piglet lamb puppy
Reading
Read the text and make up lists of what people and animals can and can’t do.
The World around Us
There are six billion people in the world and they live in different corners of it. They live on the snow and ice of the poles and in the tropical jungles on the equator. They live in the forests and in the deserts, on the river banks and by the sea. Some decades ago they even left the Earth and visited the Moon.
The human species is the most numerous and the most powerful of all the animals on earth. How did it happen? In many ways, animals can do things better than people. Dogs can smell and hear better than human beings. Cats can see in the dark. Birds can fly. But no other animal builds cathedrals, plays football, tells jokes, gets married, writes books, elects presidents, or goes to the Moon.
There is one thing above all that makes people and animals different. People love to talk. We are the great communicators! And we can communicate so many things in so many ways – with our faces, our hands, our bodies, and our voices. Most important of all, we can record what we say and think in writing, so that we can communicate through time. We have a sense of past and future, not just present.
We are the only species that can change the world, and we are the only species that can choose either to look after our world or to destroy it.