The Camel
10/10/2020 5:05:00 PM
Do you know?
- Camels are very strong and can carry up to 900 pounds for 25 miles a day.
- Camels can travel up to 40 miles per hour – the same as a racehorse!
Let's explore more about this animal!
FACT: Mother camels carry their calves up to 14 months before giving birth.
Listen and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
- What is NOT stored in a camel’s hump?
- How many words does Arabic have to describe a camel?
- food
- water
- fat
- about 100
- about 150
- about 200
Complete the text you are listening to by dragging the correct word to each blank.
The Camel
The can go without water for a long time. Some people think it stores water in its hump. This is not true. It stores food in its . The camel's body changes the food into fat. Then the fat is stored in the hump. A camel cannot store the fat its body. Fat all over an animal's body keeps the animal warm. Camels live in the desert. They do not want to be warm during the day.
The desert is very hot. The camel gets hotter and hotter during the day. It stores this heat in its body because the nights are cool. There is a lot of sand in the desert. The camel has long . The eyelashes keep the sand out of the camel's eyes.
The Arabian camel has one hump. The Bactrian camel of Central Asia has two humps. It also has long, thick hair, because the winters are cold in Central Asia.
Arabic has about 150 words to a camel. Many people who speak Arabic need all these words because the camel is very important to them.
Read and answer the questions.
The Camel
The camel can go without water for a long time. Some people think it stores water in its hump. This is not true. It stores food in its hump. The camel's body changes the food into fat. Then the fat is stored in the hump. A camel cannot store the fat all over its body. Fat all over an animal's body keeps the animal warm. Camels live in the desert. They do not want to be warm during the day.
The desert is very hot. The camel gets hotter and hotter during the day. It stores this heat in its body because the nights are cool. There is a lot of sand in the desert. The camel has long eyelashes. The eyelashes keep the sand out of the camel's eyes.
The Arabian camel has one hump. The Bactrian camel of Central Asia has two humps. It also has long, thick hair, because the winters are cold in Central Asia.
Arabic has about 150 words to describe a camel. Many people who speak Arabic need all these words because the camel is very important to them.
Source: Facts & Figures
- protecting it from the enemy
- storing energy for it
- providing food to it
- keeping it warm
What can you NOT conclude from the passage?
- Many Arabic speakers are familiar to 150 words to describe the camel because of the importance of this animal to them.
- The Bactrian camel of Central Asia can endure the cold winters there thanks to its long, thick hair.
- The hot weather in the desert can be the reason why camels store the fat in their humps only.
- The Arabian camel is lighter than the Bactrian camel because it has fewer humps than the Bactrian one.
- to compare two kinds of the camel
- to list things stored in the hump of a camel
- to describe the appearance of the camel
- to give knowledge about the camel
Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text.
- Arabic has about 150 words to a camel.
- Fat an animal's body keeps the animal warm.
- It stores food in its .
- The can go without water for a long time.
- The camel has long .
Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.
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