8 The hottest nd coldest pl ces

A Find sentence pairs about different kinds of weather.

I’m white. I make the leaves I can change things You only see me when
fall from trees. from dry to wet! the sun’s behind you!

I come from I come out when Look carefully to see When you see me,
grey clouds. you go to bed. my seven colours. you can see stars, too.

You want me when I only fall on really, I’m hot, big No, you can’t
you go sailing! really cold days. and round. see me at night!

B Listen and write and say!

I s i t righ t t o f l y k i t e t night ?
C Complete the sentences with words from the box.
1 2 3

4 5 6

1 The coldest place in the world is Antarctica.

2 The town is in India. It rains there a lot! driest
coldest
3 Africa is the part of the world.
sunniest
4 The place is Antarctica, too. The wind there wettest
is really strong! windiest
5 In Arizona, it’s always dry and sunny! It’s the hottest
place the USA.

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D Choose words to complete the weather sentences.
windy
It is cloudy
sunny
tod y.
It w s hot
cold
yesterd y.
is raining
It is snowing tod y.
rained
It snowed yesterd y.
E Choose the correct words and write them on the lines.

Animals in cold parts of the world

We don’t see many animals in the coldest
parts of the world, but polar bears, which are
Example white, live in really cold places. lived live living
1 Brown bears when the 1 sleep sleeping sleeps
weather is very cold.
2 don’t wake up or eat any 2 It They We
food.
When the weather starts getting cold, some
3 birds fly hotter countries, but 3 by to at
penguins are very happy in the snow!
Snowshoe rabbits are really clever!
4 the weather’s very cold and 4 When Why Which
5 there’s snow on the ground, 5 those all this
animal’s fur changes from brown to white!

F Which are the tallest, strongest and cleverest animals?

G Let’s write funny sentences!

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