Draw lines to join the matching words and phrases

a. believe not right

b. wrong go from one place to another

c. travel needing food

d. hungry think to be true

Complete these sentences using words from the box.

carry useful mostly lose need without across

a. Camels _____________people on their backs.

b. The camel's hump is _____________fat.

c. Camels are very _____________animals.

d. Camels can travel _____________deserts.

e. A desert is _____________sand.

f. We all _____________sleep.

g. Most animals cannot live _____________food and water.

h. Some travelers _____________their way in the desert.

Find these words in the story.

sweat (paragraph 2) deserts (paragraph 4) hump (paragraph 1) fat (paragraph 1)

Now match each word to the nearest meaning.

a. a part of a camel

b. something we should not eat too much of

c. a place where there is a lot of sand

d. water that comes from our bodies when we are hot

Looking for detail

Answer these questions about the story.

a. Is the hump of a camel mostly water or fat?

b. Name one way in which people are different from camels.

c. Why is it helpful to a camel that it does not sweat very much?

d. In what kind of place do camels live?

e. How do people use camels?

f. What happens to people if they do not drink water?

g. Why is the camel called The ship of the desert?

h. Why doesn't a camel need to drink very often?

i. In paragraph 1 does “It” refer to the camel, the camel's hump or the camel's fat?.

j. Why doesn't the camel's hump help it to go for a long time without drinking?

Complete the following sentences. Your answers must come from the story.

a. A camel uses the fat in if s hump when _____________________________.

b. Camels do not sweat very much so _____________________________.

c. Most people and animals have to drink when _____________________________.

d. Camels are useful animals to have in the desert because _____________________________.

e. A camel is a little like a ship because _____________________________.

Picture comprehension

Which picture is about the story? Make a tick under the correct picture. Write a sentence about what you can see in this picture. Now write sentences about what you can see in the other pictures.

Organizing ideas

Read the sentences below and tick the five most important ones. Write them in the correct order to make a summary of the story.

a. Most animals sweat when it is hot and they lose water.

b. Secondly, it does not sweat very much.

c. The camel can do two things which make it drink little water.

d. If people do not drink water, they die.

e. North Africa is very hot.

f. Firstly, it can keep fat in its hump so that it can go for a long time without eating.

g. This makes the camel very useful in the hot, dry desert because it can carry things a long way without stopping for water.

Writing

Choose the correct word from the following pairs of words and write each one in the correct blank.

drink/eat unusual/exciting fat/hump for/without water/food

a. The camel is an __________animal.

b. It has a __________that is mostly fat on its back.

c. This fat gives it __________to eat for a long time.

d. The camel does not sweat water so when it is very hot it does not need to __________much.

e. This makes the camel very useful because it can carry things a long way __________ stopping for food or drink.

UNIT 3

Staying alive at sea

Pre-reading activity

1. Have you ever been on a journey by sea?

2. What is the nearest sea to your country?

3. Do you know any sea stories?

It can be dangerous to travel by sea. Ships sometimes sink far away from land. When this happens the sailors have to get into small boats. If another ship does not come and help them and they do not have enough food or water they may die.

Most people believe we must not drink sea water. They believe that if we do we shall be very ill because of all the salt in the water. A doctor called Alain Bombard did not believe this. He thought that people could stay alive by drinking sea water and eating small fish, animals, and plants from the sea. On 19 October 1953, he set out in a small boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He did not take any food or water with him.

Every day Dr. Bombard drank just a little sea water. He also caught fish and they had water in them. He drank this water. He could not cook the fish so he ate them as they were. He took small plants from the sea, which gave him more food.

Dr. Bombard became hot, tired and quite ill, but after 65 days at sea he was still alive. He traveled 2750 miles from one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other and on 24 December 1953 he reached Barbados.

He lost 20 kilos but he showed that people can live on sea water and the animals and plants in the sea.

New words

sink: If a ship gets a large hole in it, it will sink to the bottom of the sea.

mile: It takes about ten minutes to run a mile.

kilo: The baby weighed only three kilos when he was born.

Main idea