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The Amazon Rainforest II

CLIL READERS

Delve into the incredible world of the

Amazon Rainforest and discover what
life is like in its incredibly diverse

Virginia Evans – Jenny Dooley

habitats, and learn about some of the
rainforest’s most fascinating and intelligent inhabitants.
Find out which are endangered, and learn about
rainforest myths and legends through stunning images,
interesting stories and fun facts.

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The Amazon
Rainforest

The Amazon Rainforest is in South

America. It is over 2 million square miles
and covers roughly 80% of the Amazon
Basin, including parts of Brazil, Bolivia,
Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
The Amazon River, the second longest
river in the world, flows through the
forest. The river begins high in the Andes
Mountains and flows all the way to the
Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon Rainforest
has a hot, humid climate due to its
geographical location and the fact that
the equator goes through it.

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Word Bank & Activities pp. 30-31

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Myths

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful garden in which all kinds of
fruits grew. Many animals lived in the garden and they were allowed
to eat any of the fruits they wanted. But they had to follow one rule.
They had to make a bow to the fruit tree, call it by its name, and say,
"Please give me a taste of your fruit." They had to be very careful to
remember the tree's correct name and not to forget to be polite and
say "please." It was also very important that they should remember
not to be greedy. They should always leave plenty of fruit for the other
animals who might pass that way, and plenty to decorate the tree itself
and to provide seed so that other trees might grow. If they wanted to
eat figs they had to say, "O, fig tree, O, fig tree, please give me a taste
of your fruit." If they wanted to eat oranges, they had to say, "O,
orange tree, O, orange tree, please give me a taste of your fruit."
In one corner of the garden grew the most amazing tree of all. It was
tall and beautiful and the red fruit on its long branches looked
delicious. No animal had ever tasted that fruit, because no
animal could remember its name.
In a tiny house near the edge of the garden lived a
little old woman who knew the names of all the fruit
trees which grew in the garden. The animals often
went to her and asked the name of the wonderful

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fruit tree, but the tree was so far from the tiny house of the
little old woman that no animal could remember the long,
hard name by the time they reached the fruit tree.
The monkey thought of a trick. The monkey could play the guitar.
He always played when the animals gathered together in the garden
to dance. The monkey went to the tiny house of the old woman,
carrying his guitar under his arm. When she told him the long name
of the fruit tree, he made up a little tune to it, and sang it over and
over again all the way from the house to the fruit tree. When the
other animals asked him what new song he was singing, he didn’t say
a word. He continued walking and playing his little tune over and
over again on his guitar and singing the name softly.
At last, he reached the corner of the garden where the wonderful
fruit tree grew. The red fruit glowed in the bright sunlight. The
monkey bowed, said the name twice and asked for the fruit with a
"please." What a beautiful color and what a delicious smell that fruit
had! The monkey had never smelled something so good. He took a
big bite. What a face he made! That beautiful, sweet smelling fruit
was sour, and it had a nasty taste. He threw it away from him as far
as he could.

The monkey never forgot the tree's name and the little tune he had
sung. He never forgot how the fruit tasted, either. He never took a
bite of it again; but, after that, his favorite trick was to treat the other
animals to the wonderful fruit just to see
them make faces when they tasted it.

Word Bank & Activities pp. 44-45

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Jaguar
A Skilled Hunter
Word Bank
(pp. 18-21)
skilled (adj) = able to do sth very well
stalk a prey (phr) = (of an animal) to
quietly follow another animal in
order to kill it and eat it
creep (v) = to move quietly and
carefully
target (n) = (of an animal) an animal it
plans to attack
red brocket deer (n) =
shy (adj) = (of an animal) easily
frightened
hide (v) = to prevent from being seen
or discovered
get startled (phr) = to be suddenly
surprised
graze (v) = (of an animal) to eat grass
freeze (v) = (of a person or an animal)
to stop moving
stare (v) = to look at sth intently
scent (n) = the smell of an animal
patterned (adj) = having a design,
such as lines, spots, etc.
camouflage (v) = (of the color or the
shape of an animal) to make an
animal look like its natural
environment, so as not to be seen
by its predators or its prey
Pre-Reading activities
1 a) Decide which of the following sentences you think are T (true) and which are F (false).
1 Jaguars use their paws to kill their prey.
2 A jaguar’s teeth can pierce through bone. ........
3 Jaguars go to sleep after dusk.
b) Listen, read, and check if your answers were correct.
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perfectly (adv) = extremely well
thick (adj) = having a lot of things
close to each other
vegetation (n) = all the trees, plants,
etc. in a particular area
prepare (v) = to make sth ready for a
particular purpose
massive (adj) = very big
muscle (n) = a tissue in the body that
connects bones and helps
movement
hiding place (phr) = an area where an
animal cannot be seen or found
escape (v) = to get away from sth
dangerous
jaws (pl n) = the mouth of a person or
an animal
deadly (adj) = able to cause death
bite (n) = the act of cutting into sth
using the teeth
skull (n) = the bony part of the head
which holds the brain
bone (n) = one of the many hard parts
that make up the skeleton of a
human or animal body
drag (v) = to pull along the ground
throat (n) = the front part of the neck
chest (n) = the part of the body
between the neck and the stomach
........ 4 Jaguars only eat meat.
5 It is easy to see a jaguar in the forest.
........
region (n) = a part of the body
paw (n) = the foot of a four-legged
mammal that has claws
crepuscular (adj) = (of an animal)
active after the sun has gone down
and before the sun rises
dawn (n) = sunrise; daybreak
dusk (n) = the time just before night,
when it is not completely dark yet
apex predator (phr) = the animal
which is at the top of the food
chain
food chain (phr) = a series of
organisms in an ecosystem in
which each species is the food of
the next member of the chain
carnivore (n) = an animal that only
feeds on meat
turtle (n) =
capybara (n) =
provide (v) = to give
spotted (adj) = having small, round,
colored marks
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4 Choose the correct word.

While-Reading activities
2 According to the text, which of the
following is NOT true about jaguars?
A They are active at dawn and dusk.
B They are apex predators in the wild.
C They eat plants as well as animals.
D They stalk and surprise their prey.
3 SUBJECT-SPECIFIC VOCABULARY: Find
the words in the letter grid to complete the
sentences below.
1 Deer are very deadly/shy animals; they get
scared very easily.
2 Jaguars prepare/stalk their prey for some time
before they go after it.
3 It is not always easy to see a jaguar hiding in the
thick/massive vegetation of the rainforest.
4 After killing the deer, the jaguar drags/grazes its
body to a place where other predators cannot find
it.
5 The jaguar’s skilled/patterned coat provides the
perfect disguise for the animal.
6 After it has finished its meal, the jaguar licks its
paws/muscles to clean them.

Q B S K C V L S T X F V A
Q E Y C X N F N L X A B P After-Reading activities
C N Z R V V O T V X W R E
A A U E R R O I C I T H X 5 Look up information on the Internet to
complete the fact file.
M U Q P P H D V T M Q X P
O K X U I L C B X U H S R
U Y D S C W H E Y V E M E
F M W C C X A O G I C O D
Type: Mammal
L O Q U O I I F V U Q R A
A Y H L P W N A U Q M P T Scientific name:
G Z E A L B P A X U O H O
E H X R T E D U C M F S R Mainly lives in:
O V I C A R N I V O R E S Head and body: .........................;
Size: tail: .........................

1 Animals that are lower on the ............................... Weight:

are eaten by bigger animals.
Carnivore – mainly eats:
2 ..................................... are animals that are not
Diet:
hunted and eaten by other animals.
3 The two usual ................................... of the jaguar Lifespan
are the spotted one and the black one. in the wild:

4 ................................... animals are at their busiest

at dawn and dusk.
5 ............................................. are animals that only
6 Use the information in Ex. 5 to present the
eat meat.
jaguar to the class.
6 The jaguar’s spotted coat helps ...........................
it, making it difficult for other animals to see it.

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Myths
How the Jaguar Lost its Fire

Word Bank
(pp. 26-27)
cliff (n) = an area of land high above
the ground usually near the sea
pole (n) = a long stick made of wood
or metal that can support things
excited (adj) = very happy; thrilled
raw (adj) = uncooked
jealous (of sb) (adj) = angry with sb
because you think they are getting
more attention than you
mean (adj) = not nice; nasty
miss (v) = to feel sad because you are
curious (adj) = interested in and
wanting to know more about sth
tribesman (n) = a man who is a
member of a tribe
log (n) = a thick piece of wood from a
tree

lose hope (phr) = to stop believing not with sb keep a promise (phr) = to do what
that sth will happen tears (n) = the liquid that comes out of you have said that you will do

bow (n) = a long piece of wood that
bends with string attached to both
ends; a weapon that shoots arrows
arrow (n) = a long, thin stick that has
one pointy end and one with
feathers
recent (adj) = happening not very long
ago
shake my head (phr) = to turn my
head from side to side to say ‘no’
your eyes when you cry
promise (v) = to tell sb that you will do
sth for sure
neighbor (n) = a person who lives
near you
keep a secret (phr) = to not tell others
what you know
cottage (n) = a small house in the
country
precious (adj) = important and worth
a lot
hero (n) = a person that everyone
admires because of sth great they
did
skill (n) = the knowledge and ability to
do sth very well

Pre-Reading activities

1 a) Try to put the events in the order they happened.

A Botoque’s brother pulled the pole down and
left.
B Botoque and some tribesmen stole the fire
from the jaguar’s home.
C 1 Botoque and his brother went hunting.
D The jaguar asked Botoque not to say
anything about the fire.
E They saw a macaw nest at the top of a cliff.
F A jaguar saw Botoque at the top of the cliff.
G Botoque climbed up a pole to get some
eggs.
H The jaguar took Botoque to his house.
I Botoque threw two eggs to his brother.
J The jaguar taught Botoque things.
K The eggs became stones and broke his
hands.
L The jaguar helped Botoque come down.
M Botoque went back to his village.

b) Listen, read, and check if your answers were correct.

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While-Reading activities
2 Read the text and for questions 1-4 choose
the correct answer A, B, or C.
1 What is the myth about?
A how two brothers got lost in the forest
B the history of the jaguar
C how humans found fire
2 What did Botoque think was amazing about the
jaguar?
A He walked on two legs.
B He had his arms full of food.
C He was hunting in the forest.
3 How did the jaguar’s wife feel about Botoque?
A She treated him like a son.
B She was sad to see him leave.
C She was jealous of him.
4 Why was the jaguar angry with Botoque?
A because he went hunting without him
B because he didn’t keep his promise
C because he took his food
3 Fill in: hope, tears, pole, neighbors, miss, logs.
1 After many days at the jaguar’s house, Botoque
started to ................................ his family.
2 Botoque began to lose ................................ that
he would ever make it back to his village.
3 There were ................................ in the jaguar’s
eyes as he said goodbye.
4 Botoque couldn’t climb back down because his
brother took the ................................ away.
5 When Botoque came home, his mother invited the
................................ for dinner.
6 The people from Botoque’s village took all the
burning ................................ from the jaguar’s
house.
4 Replace the words/phrases in bold with the
words/phrases in the box.
● shook ● skill ● cottage ● precious
● mean ● were curious
1 The jaguar invited Botoque to his house.
2 The jaguar’s wife was very unkind to Botoque.
3 Fire was very important to the animals.
4 Botoque looked at the jaguar and moved his
head.
5 The villagers wanted to know about the cooked
meat.
6 Thanks to the jaguar, humans now had the
knowledge and ability to make fire.
After-Reading activities
5 Use the following words to complete the
summary of the chapter: tribesmen, arrow,
hero, cliff, promise, raw, keep, bow.
one day when
Botoque was hunting with his brother
.......... . Later,
his brother left him alone on a 1) ............
Botoque come
a kind jaguar came by and helped
.......... meat with
down. The jaguar had some 2) ............
house for some
him and asked Botoque to come to his
ate cooked meat
cooked meat. That’s where Botoque
many days and
for the first time. He stayed there for
3) ......................
the jaguar showed him how to use a
ar also showed
and 4) .................... to hunt. The jagu
k meat. When
Botoque how to build a fire and coo
5) ......................
Botoque left, the jaguar made him
when Botoque
never to tell his people about fire. But
6) ......................
went back to his village, he couldn’t
.... about the fire.
the secret and told his 7) ..................
jaguar’s cottage,
They went and stole the fire from the
.. to his people.
and Botoque became a 8) ..................
6 Tell the class three things that
impressed you from the story.
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Review

Listening activities

1 Listen to the following dialogue. Then, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

1 What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A how to teach animals to use tools
B ways that different animals use tools
C what it means when animals use tools
D how animals make tools out of stone

2 According to the speaker, bottlenose dolphins use tools

A to play games.
B to break things open.
C to catch food.
D to protect themselves.

2 Listen to the following dialogue. Then, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

1 What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A how sloths resemble other animals
B an ancestor of modern sloths
C how sloth metabolisms evolved
D the largest species of modern sloth

2 What do some scientists believe is true about Megatheria?

A They moved faster than elephants.
B They killed and ate sloths.
C They moved fast when they were hunting.
D They lived in North America.

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3 Listen to the following monologue. Then, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

1 What is the main topic of the lecture?

A warriors that dressed up like jaguars
B how Aztecs used jaguars in battle
C how warriors fought jaguars
D Aztec gods that protected jaguars

2 How did an Aztec become a jaguar warrior?

A by killing as many enemies as possible
B by catching a wild jaguar
C by fighting in many battles
D by capturing his enemies

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Amazing Facts

des and
Capuchins crush up millipe
is keeps
rub them on their backs. Th
During the times when there is not 1) ........................ away.
enough food, the 2) .....................
male in a group of capuchins The name “jaguar” comes from the
always eats first. Indian word yaguar, which means “he
who 3) ........................ with one leap.”
Unlike most cats, jaguars like wat
er and
are quite good at 4) ........................
. Brown-throated sloths can turn their
5) ........................ about 300 degrees.

It can take sloths up to a

month to 6) ........................
the food they have eaten. In the wild, the 7) ........................ of
brown-throated sloths is typically
between 30 and 40 years.
A group of monkeys is called a
8) ..................... , and there are
8 to 15 members in it.

1 Fill in the blanks. Use these words: kills, troop, digest,

lifespan, heads, swimming, bugs, strongest.
Listen and check.

2 In groups, collect more facts about capuchin

monkeys, sloths, and jaguars. Prepare a Yes/No quiz.

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DISCOVER

The Amazon Rainforest II

CLIL READERS

Delve into the incredible world of the

Amazon Rainforest and discover what
life is like in its incredibly diverse

Virginia Evans – Jenny Dooley

habitats, and learn about some of the
rainforest’s most fascinating and intelligent inhabitants.
Find out which are endangered, and learn about
rainforest myths and legends through stunning images,
interesting stories and fun facts.

Components
DIGI MATERIAL
• Reader cross-platform application
• Multi-ROM (iOS, Android, Windows, MacOSX)

DISCOVER DISCOVER DISCOVER

ISBN 978-1-4715-1522-4