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5d Animals on the move

1 Warm-up 

A. Answer the following questions.
• Do you know of any animals that travel great distances?
• Why do you think they do it?
B. Listen to a TV presenter talking about green sea
turtles and answer the questions.
1. Where is the woman?
2. How far did the turtles travel to get there?

2 Read 
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A. Listen, read and look at the routes on the
map. Then, write the names of the animals
in the boxes next to the appropriate colour.

G LO B E T R O T T I N G A N I M A LS
GLOBETROTTING ANIMALS

The animal kingdom is full of amazing stories of long-distance travel.
Here are just a few examples of animals that really go the distance.
H e r e a r e j u s t a f e w e x a m p l e s o f a n i m a l s t h at r e a l l y g o t h e d i s t a n ce .
Here are just a few examples of animals that really go the distance.
Arctic Tern Paci ic Salmon

This bird can fly over 36,000 Salmon have the hardest journey. When
km every year, from the Arctic it’s time to breed, they leave the ocean and
circle in the North, all the way down return to the river where they were born. They have
to Antarctica and back again. Arctic to swim upstream, sometimes through polluted waters
terns migrate to the South Pole in the or up waterfalls. Throughout this journey they have to
winter to find a warmer climate. The young birds avoid both fishermen and predators. However, not all the
are shown the way only once. Then, they have to salmon complete the journey. And the ones that do, die
make the return trip alone. soon after breeding because they’re exhausted.

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elk live high in the mountains. When heavy during the winter to escape the
snow falls in the winter, it covers all the cold weather. Polar bears live in
vegetation. None of the elk can survive these the freezing Arctic but have got no
conditions, so they all move down the mountain. problem with the cold. They travel long
In spring, the snow melts and the elk climb up the distances searching for food. Sometimes this
mountain and the cycle continues. search can cover an area twice as big as Iceland!
B. Find words in the texts and match them with the meanings below. The pictures show in which text the
words appear.
6. continue to live:
1. plants in general:
2. look for: 7. a place where a stream or a
3. spend the winter in a deep sleep: river falls from a high place:
4. produce young ones: 8. move from one part of
5. an animal that kills and eats the world to another
other animals: according to the season:
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