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Super Land (6) Vocabulary and Grammar

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-a large pink bird with long thin legs and a long neck.

-a large bird that is usually white and has a long thin neck.

-an insect, often large and black, with a hard case on its back, covering its wings.

-a small animal like a frog but with a drier and less smooth skin.

-an animal with long legs, that eats grass and leaves and can run fast.

-a small black insect that can fly.

-a small animal with a long thick tail and red, grey or black fur.

-a large fish with silver skin and pink flesh that is used for food.

-a large wide flat sea fish that has a long tail with a sharp sting in it that can cause serious wounds.

-a large tropical snake that kills animals for food.

-an insect with long back legs that can jump very high.

-a large heavy animal with very thick

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skin and either one or two horns on its nose.

-a wild animal of the cat family, with yellowish brown fur and black spots, which can run faster than any other animal

-a small reptile that has a long body, four short legs, a long tail and thick skin

-a very large sea mammal that breathes air through a hole at the top of its head

-a bird with a flat face, large eyes, and strong curved nails, which hunts small mammals at night

-an animal with a thick, hard shell that it can move its head and legs into for protection. It eats plants, moves very slowly and sleeps during the winter.

-a sea mammal that is large, smooth and grey, with a long pointed mouth

-an African wild animal which looks like a horse, and which has black or brown and white lines(stripes) on its body

-a black and white sea bird which cannot fly but uses its small wings to help it swim

-a large wide flat sea fish that has a long tail with a sharp sting in it that can cause serious wounds.

-a large tropical snake that kills animals for food.

-an insect with long back legs that can jump very high.

-a large heavy animal with very thick skin and either one or two horns on its nose.

1. Mammals : animals that feed their young on its milk.

2. Amphibians: animals that can live both on land and in water.

3. Reptiles : cold blooded animal.

4. Fish: an animal which lives in water, is covered with scales, and

which breathes by taking water in through its mouth, or the

flesh of these animals eaten as food.

5. Birds: a creature with feathers and wings, usually able to fly. 6. Insects: a type of very small animal with six legs, a body divided

into three parts and usually two pairs of wings, or, more

generally, any similar very small animal

Body Parts of Animals

Feather one of the many soft light things which cover a bird's body, consisting of a long thin central part with material like hairs along each side

Fur the thick hair that covers the bodies of some animals, or the hair-covered skin(s) of animals, removed from their bodies

Whiskers any of the long, stiff hairs growing on the face of a cat, mouse or other mammal

Wing the flat part of the body which a bird, insect or bat uses for flying, or one of the flat horizontal structures that stick out from the side of an aircraft and support it when it is flying

Flipper one of two parts like arms of particular sea creatures, such as seals and penguins , used for swimming

Tail a part of an animal's body, sticking out from the base of the back, or something similar in shape or position

Paw the foot of an animal which has claws or nails, such as a cat, dog or bear

Claw one of the sharp curved nails at the end of each of the toes of some animals and birds

Beak the hard pointed part of a bird's mouth

Horn a hard, pointed, often curved part that grows from the top of the head of some animals

Scale one of the many very small flat pieces which cover the skin of fish, snakes, etc.

Stripe Line/ strip on the surface of something which is a different colour from the surrounding surface

Fin a thin vertical part sticking out of the body of especially a fish or an aircraft which helps balance and movement

Mammals Lion, cheetah, tiger, deer, whale, fox,

squirrel, dolphin, rhino, elephant, zebra

Amphibians Frog, toad

Fish Salmon, stingray

Birds Flamingo, swan, penguin, owl.

Insects Butterfly, ant, fly, beetle

Reptiles Crocodile, lizard, tortoise, python

Unit (5a) Working with Animals -New Vocabulary

Board game any of many games, for example chess , in which small pieces are moved around on a board with a pattern on it

Dedicate -devote

Honeymoon -holiday taken by a couple who have just got married.

Hunt -to chase

Instill -to put into somebody's mind.

Passion -very strong interest in something.

Python -a large snake that kills animals for food

Sting -to wound

Trap -to catch and keep something in one place.

Wish -desire

Respect -to show care and consideration.

Share with -to use or have something at the same time as somebody else.

Show host -somebody who introduces the guests in a TV show

Exceptional -much greater than usual, especially in skill, intelligence, quality, etc

Naturalist -a person who studies and knows a lot about plants and animals

Take care of -to look after someone or something Ex. Take good care of that girl of yours, Patrick - she's very special.

Respect -admiration felt or shown for someone or something that you believe has good ideas or qualities

Viewer -a person who watches something,

especially television

Documentary -a film, television or radio programme that gives facts and information about a subject

Proud -feeling pleasure and satisfaction because you or people connected with you have done or got something good

Film -to record moving pictures with a camera, usually to make a film for the cinema or television

Sting -If an insect, plant or animal stings, it produces a small but painful injury, usually with a poison, by brushing against the skin or making a very small hole under the skin (stung, stung)

Unfortunately

(adv.)

-used to say that something is sad, disappointing or has a bad effect

-Prepositions

1. feed on: to give food to a person, group or animal

e.g: Crocodiles feed on mice.

2. know about

e.g :Bob didn't know a lot about crocodiles.

3. at night

e.g: You can catch crocodiles at night.

4. love for

e.g: I have to share my love for success with my friends.

6. Dedicate to

e.g: Steve dedicated his life to wildlife.

7. die in: stop living because during /in an activity.

e.g: Steve died in a car crush.

8. die of stop living because of something..

e.g: People in many countries die of starvation.

9. share with: to have or use something at the same time as

someone else/ to divide food, money, goods, etc. and give part of

it to someone else

e.g.: Will you share your sandwich with me?

e.g.: I share a house with four other people.

-Phrasal verbs: with take

-to get responsibility for something. ex. The company he works for has recently been taken over.

-to start doing a job ex. Have you ever thought of taking up acting ?

-to remove/ leave ex. If an aircraft, bird or insect takes off, it leaves the ground and begins to fly The plane took off at 8.30 a.m.

-to be similar to an older member of your family. ex. He takes after his mother/his mother's side of the family.

-to look after ex. Take good care of that girl of yours, Patrick - she's very special.

-to understand something ex. I had to read the letter twice before I could take it all in.

-to begin to have a particular quality. ex. Her voice took on a troubled tone.

-Grammar

-The past perfect tense

1. We use it for an action which finished before another past

action or before a stated time in the past.

e.g.: Jenny had eaten her lunch by 2 o'clock.

2. We use it for an action which finished in the past and whose

result was visible at later point in the past.

e.g.: he had broken his leg and it was still hurting.

-Form

had + p.p

(I, We, You, They, He, She, It) + had+ P.P

-Some regular verbs

Look Looked Looked

Visit Visited Visited

Play Played Played

Stay Stayed Stayed

Stop Stopped Stopped

Clap Clapped Clapped

Some irregular verbs:

Go went gone

Drink drank drunk

Buy bought bought

Sell sold sold

Send sent sent

Eat ate eaten

-Time expressions

We use (before - after - already - just - for - since - until - when - by the time - never - as soon as- etc.)

But

- The most famous key words are

1) After past perfect past simple

As soon as (1st action) (2nd action)

2) Before past simple past perfect

By the time (2nd action) (1st action)

-Example

1) After Jane had left, we arrived.

2) As soon as Jane had left, we arrived.

3) Before we arrived, Jane had left.

4) By the time we arrived, Jane had left.

3) Negative past simple + until + Affirmative Past perfect

I ate my breakfast then I went to school.

(1st action) (2nd action)

I didn’t go to school until I had eaten my breakfast.

-Negative Form

We use

I, You, We, They, He, She, It, + hadn't+ p.p.

-Interrogative

-Yes/no question.

-We use:

Had (I, you, we, they, he, she, it) worked?

Yes, (I, you, we, they, he, she, it) had.

No, (I, you, we, they, he, she, it) hadn't.

Past Perfect Continuous

FORM

[had been + present participle]

Examples:

You had been waiting there for more than two hours when she

finally arrived.

Had you been waiting there for more than two hours when she

finally arrived?

You had not been waiting there for more than two hours when she

finally arrived.

Use:

-We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the

past and continued up until another time in the past. "For five minutes" and

"for two weeks" are both durations which can be used with the Past Perfect

Continuous.

-Using the Past Perfect Continuous before another action in the past is a

good way to show cause and effect.

Examples:

Jason was tired because he had been jogging.

Sam gained weight because he had been overeating.

Subject had been verb + ing

I had been walking

Affirmative

She had been trying

Negative

She hadn't been sleeping

Interrogative

Had you been eating?

Unit (5 B) Animals Senses

-New Vocabulary

-to make a short high sound.

-having particular skills.

-the ability to see

-the ability to see.

-a bird of prey with appointed wings

and longs tail.

-it’s a blind bird that hunts only at

night.

-toned to support of somebody or something.

-long thin part of certain creatures

used as arms.

-a worm which lives in the soil.

-small nearly blind North Americans

animal that lives under ground.

-long stiff hairs on an animal's face.

-a fat grey and white bird with short legs.

-unable to see.

If an object or achievement is impressive, you admire or respect it,

usually because it is special,

important or very large

-ability to do something

-a nerve ending that reacts to a

change.

to send out or reflect light

to move and make currents of air, or

to be moved or make something

move on a current of air

an ability to understand, recognize,

value or react to something,

especially any of the five physical

abilities to see, hear, smell, taste and feel

to (cause something to) grow or

change into a more advanced, larger

or stronger form

to continue to live or exist, especially

after coming close to dying or being

destroyed or after being in a difficult or threatening situation

one of the two long parts on an

insect's head with which it touches

things in order to discover what is around it

a sea animal that has five pairs of

legs and a round flat body covered by

a shell, or its flesh eaten as food

a standard or level which is

considered to be typical or usual

to discover the exact size or amount

of something, or to be of a particular size

Unit (5e) Call of the Wild

-New Vocabulary -to make a continuous low “zzz” sound.(Bee)

-to cry (for some birds; raven – rook or craw)

-to make a sound like that of a long “ss”(snake)

-to make a sound like a long “oo”(owl)

-to make a long sad sound (for wolves)

-to make a long led call (for horses)

-to make a short very high sound(mouse/mice).

-the sound of the dog

-used when you are surprised by what somebody has just said.

-to try to make somebody believe something that isn’t true, as a joke.