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LESSON 12. SCIENCE FACTS HANDOUT

PART A. LISTENING

Pre-listening

Think about the following questions.

1. Do you think insects sleep? Why or why not?

2. How can you tell if an insect is sleeping?
3. How many hours of sleep do you need each night? How does your behavior change
when you don’t get enough sleep?

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While-listening

Task 1. Listen and take notes.

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Task 2. Use your notes to answer the following questions.

2.1. Choose the best answer.

1. What is the talk mainly about?

a. Fruit flies show sleep behavior. b. Scientists were wrong.

c. Scientists have changed their view about insect sleep. d. Animals die without sleep.

2. Which of the following animals do NOT sleep?

a. Black bears b. Chickens

c. Rattlesnakes d. All of these animals sleep

3. Why did scientists believe that insects did not need sleep?

a. Insects don’t work hard. b. Insects can’t close their eyes.

c. Insects don’t dream. d. Insects don’t live very long.

4. How did scientists learn that insects sleep?

a. They used brain scanning machines. b. They put flies in dark rooms.

c. They watched insects. d. They took the antennae off flies.

5. What do fruit flies do for seven hours each day?

a. Sleep b. Eat

c. Make noise d. Fly

2.2. Listen again and complete the chart below with the words given in the box.

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Follow-up Discussion

PART 2. SPEAKING

Informative Presentation

Topic: An interesting insect.

HOMEWORK

SPEAKING

Write a paragraph about an interesting insect. Practise talking about it.

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Task 1. Listen and choose the best answer.

1. What is the main idea of the talk?

a. What animals do during earthquakes b. The many earthquakes of Japan

c. Effect of natural events on animals’ actions d. Folklore and other stories about animals

2. How do dogs begin to behave just before an earthquake?

a. They lie down in grass. b. They stay together in large groups.

c. They leave their homes. d. They hurt people.

3. What other animals behave strangely before an earthquake?

a. Pigs b. Birds c. Cows d. All of the above

4. What did Kiyoshi Shimamura look at during his investigation?

a. Animal clinics treating dogs b. The number of patients with bites

c. The number of earthquakes a year d. Places dogs go during earthquakes

5. Why do you think Japanese researchers are so interested in studying earthquakes?

a. Japanese people like dogs. b. Japan has lots of researchers.

c. Japan has lots of earthquakes. d. Many animals in Japan behave strangely.

Task 2.

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