Posts Tagged ‘The natural world’
What makes robins sing at night?
In this exercise, can you firstly read this article and also this one about birds adapting their singing in urban environments?For exercise one, can you supply the missing words in the texts, drawn from both newspaper articles? Report by Mark Kinver Science and nature reporter, BBC News Robins in urban areas are singing at night…
Read MoreBlack Carr Wood
Leaf-strewn paths lead a winding way as shafts of soft autumn light illuminate the trees and foliage growing wild in Black Carr Wood Fingers of icy mist point a way through past frost-tinged leaves and mossy bark to foxes, rabbits and nut-gathering squirrels running wild thro’ Black Carr Wood In Summer, the varying shades of…
Read MoreThe Moon
THE MOON Madam Moonlight, Queen of nightspreads her silverinto the night.Studs the blackness of the skywith diamond chipsas she goes by.Turns her face and looks belowto bathe the earthin a silver glow.Her gauzy wings she softly spreadso’er darkened fieldsand sleeping heads.Softer sister of the sunshe watches earthtil night is done.Hides her face in a clouded…
Read MoreLiquid assets – Writing exercise
More about water use than business!
Read MoreDaffodils by William Wordsworth
Daffodils Surely one of the most famous poems ever dedicated to a flower! Read it here, and then read more about William Wordsworth. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering…
Read MoreProtecting fish stocks
Protecting fish stocks You may have eaten fish and chips in Britain, where they are a very popular British speciality. Can you make out what this person’s view is on protecting fish stocks? 1 Can you pick out three comments on the EU fishing policy that indicate objections to them?2 Can you give either of…
Read MoreHelp save Mediterranean forests! Stage 1 – Initial facts and figures
WWF*,the Conservation Organisation, is urging wine consumers to support the cork economy by making sure the wine they buy has natural cork-stoppers. See if you can guess any statistics correctly before you read the text! *The World Wide Fund for Nature, www.org.uk 1. [Multiple choice] The French monk Dom Perignon first experimented with cork stoppers…
Read MoreWinds of Change – exercise 1
Views of the Pennines When you have completed exercise 1, click here for exercise 2! 1. [Multiple choice] Which of these winds are not mentioned? (Also known as the bura / burja / jugo / буран / poyraz, among other names) Answers for Quiz [1]. 1. The Helm Wind 2. The Föhn 3. The…
Read MoreGiant rabbit
Strange ‘goings-on’ in Northumberland! Read this article and answer the questions to improve your English language skills.
Read MoreWatch the birdie! Step 1
Can you say which names go with the pictures of these birds? Answers below! 1 Robin 2 House finch 3 Nightingale 4 Great tit 5 Song sparrow A B C D E go to step 2 1D Robin 2C House finch 3B Nightingale 4E Great tit 5A Song sparrow
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