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Look at these sentences.

● Deserts are the driest places on earth.


● Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in cool underground burrows.


Now form pairs. Ask questions using a suitable form of the word in brackets. Try to answer the questions too.


Do you know


1. Which animal is the ____________ (tall)?


2. Which animal runs the _____________ (fast)?


3. Which place on earth is the ___________ (hot) or the ________ (cold)?


4. Which animal is the _______________ (large)?


5. Which is the ___________ (tall) mountain in the world?


6. Which is the ______________ (rainy) place on earth?


7. Which is the _____________ (old) living animal?


Can you add some questions of your own?

1. Which animal is the tallest?


Giraffe


2. Which animal runs the fastest?


Cheetah


3. Which place on earth is the hottest or the coldest?


Hottest – Al Aziziyah, Libya


Coldest - Oymyakon, Russia


4. Which animal is the largest?


The Blue Whale


5. Which is the tallest mountain in the world?


The Mount Everest


6. Which is the rainiest place on earth?


Mawsynram, Meghalaya


7. Which is the oldest living animal?


Belonging to different climatic conditions, there are some oldest living animals on earth. Example – Adwaita, an Aldabra giant tortoise, the jellyfish, the horseshoe crab etc.


Students can find facts related to different aspects covering many facts such as historical monuments.


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1

Answer the following questions.

(i) How do desert animals survive without water? (1)


(ii) How do mongooses kill snakes? (6)


(iii) How does the hump of the camels help them to survive when there is no water? (9)

 2

Read the words/phrases in the box. With your partner find their meaning in the dictionary.


Fill in the blanks in the following passage with the above words/phrases.


All animals in forests and deserts struggle to _____________ in ___________. Though most of the animals are ____________, some are dangerous when ______________. If an __________ is noticed, they attack or bite to save themselves. They struggle ___________ for food and water. Some animals are called ___________ because they ___________ on other animals.

 1

Look at these sentences.

● Most snakes are quite harmless, but a few are poisonous.


● Most snakes lay eggs, but the rattlesnake gives birth to its young.


Now write five sentences like these using ‘most’ and the clues below.


1.(90% of) people are honest (10%) are dishonest. _________________


2.(Lots of) fruit have plenty of sugar, (some) citrus fruit are low in sugar. _________________


3. (Every soft drink except this one) has lots of ‘empty calories’. _________________


4. (The majority of) films are romances, (a few) are on other topics. _________________


5. (A majority of) people agree that he is a good leader, (just a few) disagree. _________________

 2

Look at these sentences.

● Animals cannot survive for long without water.


● So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.


The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do.


Complete these sentences using cannot and have to/has to.


1. You __________ reach the island by land or air; you ___________ go by boat.


2. We __________ see bacteria with our eyes; we ___________ look at them through a microscope.


3. He __________ have a new bicycle now; he _________ wait till next year.


4. Old people often ___________ hear very well; they __________ use a hearing aid.


5. Road users __________ do what they wish; they ___________ follow the traffic rules.


6. She _________ accept this decision; she ____________ question it.


7. You __________ believe everything you hear; you ______________ use your own judgment.