Lesson 1

Learning Objectives

(1) Read and understand texts and literary texts about animals. 

(2) Answer text-based questions.

(3) Learn about animal habitats and the ‘laws of the jungle’

Where do animals live?

What do you know about scorpions?

What do you want to know about scorpions?

Reading Time

Text 1

Arachnids 

a group of animals with four pairs of legs

Glands

an organ in the body that produced a particular chemical or liquid

Stinger

Colonies

Text 1

Read the questions, and choose the correct answer, A, B, or C.

What words did you learn?

What part of their body do scorpions use to catch prey?

1. stinger
2. glands
3. legs

Why have colonies of scorpions been found in the United Kingdom?

1. changes in weather patterns
2. an increase in temperatures
3. a decrease in temperatures

Text 2

Recite

Laws

a rule that is used to order the way in which society behaves

Rotten

Politely

to do or say something in a calm manner

Vast

extremely big

What words did you learn?

Text 2

Read the questions, and choose the correct answer, A, B, or C.

Why would Bagheera sometimes come to see Mowgli?

1. To teach him how to climb trees
2. To teach him the Laws of the Jungle
3. To see him recite the day’s lesson

The Wood and Water Laws were teaching Mowgli to______________.

1. speak to his wolf brothers
2. respect the other animals in the jungle
3. become a man-cub

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