British Council Listening: Amazing Facts

Preparation

Match the vocabulary with the correct definition.

• The smallest part of an animal or plant.

• cells

• The smallest part of a chemical element.

• mites

• The simplest and smallest forms of life.

• bacteria

• Very tiny creatures.

• atom

Only about one tenth of the cells in your body are ...

• alive

• really you

• bacteria

Bacteria are mostly ...

• really helpful

• bad for humans

• neither good or bad.

Animals need bacteria to ...

• fight diseases

• provide energy

• digest food.

You have ... cells in your body.

• 7 million

• 7 trillion

• 7 octillion

Most of the atoms are ...

• tiny cubes

• not used

• empty space

You probably have mites in your ...

• hair

• ears

• eyelashes

Mites are very small creatures that are about ...

• 3 millimetres long

• a third of a millimetre

  long

• 0.03 millimetres long

Mites eat ...

• dead skin

• your eyelashes

• tiny insects

Only one tenth of the cells in your body are really you. The rest are _______________.