The aim of the lesson

Bats in Australia

1. 
   People are trying to learn more about their life. They catch them and put small pieces of metal on theirlegs.
   
2. 
   Some bats travel over one hundred and fifty kilometers from the places where people catch them. How do youcatch them? Easily – just take them from the caves where they aresleeping.
   
3. 
   On the metal pieces people write the date and place. Then they wait for these bats in other parts ofAustralia.
   
4. 
   Australia has about forty kinds of bats. They are the world‟s greatest killers ofmosquitoes.
   

Answer key: 1d; 2a; 3c; 4b

2b Read again and write T for True, F for False or DK for Don‟t know. (4x2=8)

1. 
   Bats in Australia can kill a lot of mosquitoes. e.g.1T
   
2. 
   People catch bats because they want to learn more aboutthem.
   
3. 
   Bats usually fly to warmer parts of the country.
   
4. 
   Bats cannot fly to other parts of Australia after people put metal pieces on their legs.
   
5. 
   It is a difficult job to catchbats.
   

Answer key: 1T; 2T; 3F; 4DK; 5F

3. Read and underline the right word.(6x2=12)

The great Asian (1) ... Kyzyl-Kum is very big – about 400,000 (2) ... kilometres. When you look at the (3) ... you can see that the Syr Darya (4) ... is to the (5) ... of it and the Amu Darya is to the south west. The (6) ... problem in the Kyzyl-Kum is water. One of the interesting places here is the Kyzyl-Kum National Park. It is (7) ... for different kinds of birds and gazelles.

1: a) river b) desert c) country 2: a) square b) long c) big

3: a) map b) book c) capital 4: a) sea b) river c) mountain 5: a) left b) area c) north

6: a) easiest b) nicest c) biggest

7: a) continent b) difficult c) famous

Answer key: 1b; 2a; 3a; 4b; 5c; 6c; 7c

3. Put the words in the correct order. (6x2=12)

e.g. There are a lot of flowers and grass.

1. 
   a lot of/There/flowers/andgrass/are/.
   
2. 
   is/The climate/very/in winter/cold/.
   
3. 
   In winter/are/and birds/white/theanimals/.
   
4. 
   change/they/their colour/In summer/to brown/andgrey/.
   
5. 
   recycle/People/paper/should/.
   
6. 
   When/make/tea/we/we/energy/use/.
   
7. 
   comes/Global warming/energy/from/weuse/.
   

Answer key:

1. 
   There are a lot of flowers andgrass.
   
2. 
   The climate is very cold inwinter.
   
3. 
   In winter the animals and birds arewhite.
   
4. 
   In summer they change their colour to brown andgrey.
   
5. 
   People should recycle paper.
   
6. 
   When we make tea, we useenergy.
   
7. 
   Global warming comes from energy weuse.
   

Total: 50 points