Lions

10/10/2020 3:40:00 PM

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Do you know?

  • Nearly all wild lions live in Africa, but one small population exists around Gir Forest National Park in western India.
  • They live in groups called prides, which usually consist of related females and their offspring.

Let's learn more about this animal in the following passage!

FACT: A lioness usually gives birth to between one and four lion babies.


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Listen and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

  • What can't baby lions do in their first two years?
  • What do baby lions do when they are two years old?

What can't baby lions do in their first two years?

  • Steal food from other animals
  • Kill other animals for food
  • Eat animals that have been killed

What do baby lions do when they are two years old?

  • Move to another place with their mother
  • Learn how to stay safe in wildlife
  • Make their own new homes

Complete the text you are listening to by dragging the correct word to each blank.

Baby lions take a long time to grow up. Baby lions cannot for themselves. For the first two years of their life, the mother lion finds food for them. They eat food that other animals have . They even food. The mother lion also teaches them how to stay safe.

When they are two years old, they from home. It is now time to find homes of their own. They know how to hunt, and they know how to find a place to live. It is time to make their new homes.

The lions will stay in this place, and they will have babies of their own. The mother lion will teach her new babies to hunt and find food. She will also teach them to stay safe. Her babies will turn two years old, and then they will leave to have families of their own.

Read and answer the following questions.


Lion cub is shown how to hunt by lioness. Image: dailymail.co.uk

Baby lions take a long time to grow up. Baby lions cannot hunt for themselves. For the first two years of their life, the mother lion finds food for them. They eat food that other animals have killed. They even steal food. The mother lion also teaches them how to stay safe.

When they are two years old, they go away from home. It is now time to find homes of their own. They know how to hunt, and they know how to find a place to live. It is time to make their new homes.

The lions will stay in this place, and they will have babies of their own. The mother lion will teach her new babies to hunt and find food. She will also teach them to stay safe. Her babies will turn two years old, and then they will leave to have families of their own.

Source: Daily Warm-ups Reading Grade 2

How long do the lions stay with their mother?
  • 10 years
  • 3 years
  • 2 years
  • 5 years
Before they are two years old, how do the babies get food?
  • The mother lion finds food for them.
  • They hunt for themselves.
  • The man in the zoo gives it to them.
  • The father lion gives them food.

Why do the babies stay with their mother for so long?

  • So they can play and roll in the grass.
  • So they can learn to steal food from other animals.
  • So they can talk to their mother every day.
  • So they can be ready to have their own homes.

Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text.

  1. When they are two years old, they from home.
  2. Baby lions cannot for themselves.
  3. They eat food that other animals have . They even food.

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

  1. They were so poor they had to in order to eat.
  2. She angrily told him to and stop bothering her.
  3. Cats like to mice and birds.
  4. Cancer thousands of people every year.