Unit 9- Lesson 11 What can you do? Hasnaa Elhadary

Unit 9- Lesson 11

What can you do

Hasnaa Elhadary

The objectives:-

• Listening: To discuss ideas about animals’

  athletic abilities

• Speaking: To make suggestions comparing

  animal and human capabilities.

• Reading: To read a text about athletic animals,

  including use of comparative and superlative

  form adverbs; to choose the correct options in

  a fable (story).

Warm- up

• Do you know any animals that can run faster than humans?

• Which animals are stronger?

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animal kingdom, sprinter, brown hare, patas monkey, pronghorn, antelope, similar, several, average speed, strength, body weight, creature, impressive, leaf-cutter ant, rhinoceros beetl

Reading (oral discussion)

What do you know about the animals in the pictures?

Why do you think they are included in this article? Read the text and find out.

Find the following in the text:

2 Find the following in the text.

1 Three types of athlete:

2 Six types of mammal (not including humans):

3 Two types of insect:

4 Two race distances:

5 Two speed measurements:

6 One weight measurement:

Open Ended

1. Three types of athlete:

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2. Six types of mammal (not including humans):

Open Ended

3. Two types of insect:

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4. Two race distances:

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5. Two speed measurements:

Open Ended

6. One weight measurement:

Multiple Select

1. Humans can run 100 metres faster than cheetahs.

• True

• False

• NI (No information)

Multiple Select

2. Patas monkeys can run faster than humans

over short distances.

• True

• False

• NI

Multiple Select

3. An athlete like Kenenisa Bekele runs more

slowly than a pronghorn.

• True

• False

• NI

Multiple Select

4. Elephants can run faster than humans and

brown hares.

• True

• False

• NI

Multiple Select

5. Leaf-cutter ants can lift 260 kilograms.

• True

• False

• NI

Multiple Select

6. Rhinoceros beetles are stronger than

leaf-cutter ants.

• True

• False

• NI

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct words to make phrases:

1. world record

• holder

• ant

• distance

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word to complete the phrase:

2. animal

• holder

• kingdom

• pronghorn

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word to complete the phrase:

3. short

• metres

• distance

• ant

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word to complete the phrase:

4. 100

• metres

• lifter

• beetle

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word to complete the phrase:

5. North American

• distance

• kingdom

• pronghorn

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word to complete the phrase:

6. weight

• metres

• beetle

• lifter

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word to complete the phrase:

7. leaf-cutter

• ant

• metres

• lifter

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word to complete the phrase:

8. rhinoceros

• lifter

• beetle

• distance

Complete the sentences with words and phrases from the box.

Open Ended

1. A ------------------- is a kind of antelope.

Open Ended

2. Kenenisa Bekelele is a ---------------------- .

Open Ended

3. A -------------------- is an Olympic athlete who is very strong.

Open Ended

4 Some members of the ---------------- are stronger and faster than humans.

Open Ended

5 A patas monkey could win a ----------- race against a human.

Open Ended

6. Cheetahs are very fast ----------------runners, but they don’t run for a long time.

Open Ended

7. A ------------------ can lift 850 times more than its own weight.

Open Ended

8. A ---------- can carry a piece of leaf that is 50 times heavier than its weight.

Reading

Read the story and circle the correct options.

Multiple Choice

Question 1

• fast

• faster

Multiple Choice

Question 2

• faster than

• the

  fastest.

Multiple Choice

Question 3

• wanted

• were wanting

Multiple Choice

Question 4

• started

• could start

Multiple Choice

Question 5

• quick

• quickly

Multiple Choice

Question 6

• slowly

• slow

Multiple Choice

Question 7

• beating

• beat

Multiple Choice

Question 8

• stop

• stopping

Multiple Choice

Question 9

• loud

• loudly

Multiple Choice

Question 10

• getting

• got

Multiple Choice

Question 11

• as quickly as

• quicker than

Multiple Choice

Question 12

• won

• was winning