Listening Material - Descriptive Text

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PRELISTENING ACTIVITY
Look at the pictures below and answer the following questions,


















1. What is the animal in the picture?
2. Have you ever seen a bee?
3. Have you ever being stung by a bee?
4. How does it feel?
5. Did you ever taste honey?
6. How does it feel?
7. Is it sweet?
8. Or bitter?
9. What is the colour of honey?
10. Is there any other function of honey?

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List of words.
Now after you answering the questions above, find the meaning of the words below, you may open your dictionary;

bee                 queen
flowers           lays
arctic              eggs
agriculture      males
insects            drones
crop                females
honey             workers
colony            stomach
hive

Listening Exercise (WHILST LISTENING ACTIVITY)
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Honey Bee

Most [1] have heard the [2] of bees among flowers. Bees live almost everywhere in the world -- except the arctic areas. Many kinds of agriculture depend on these small, social insects. Without bees, fruit and nut growers as well as many other farmers would not have a crop.

There are more than twenty [3] kinds of bees. But only [4]bees make enough honey for people to use. Honey bees are highly organized social [5] They work together in a group called a [6] Each colony lives in a [7] It contains one queen bee -- she lays all the eggs from which the members of the colony come. Each colony has only a few hundred males, called drones. The majority of all bees in a colony are workers, which are all females.

Bees even have a special [8], called a honey stomach. It is used to store [9] fluid that the bees gather from [10] Bees also have long hairs on their body and [11] These hairs capture pollen as bees go from flower to flower. Some of the [12] is taken back to the hive. Some, however, is passed to the next flower. This is how many plants are [13] Pollen is the reproductive [14] of plants. Many important agricultural crops depend on bees for fertilization.

Inside their hives, bees store sweet fluid from flowers, called nectar, and also pollen. They may even gather nectar from some other kinds of insects. These kinds of [15] are also stored in the hive. Bees have organs that produce a fatty substance called wax. They use wax to build structures in the hive that hold [16] and store honey.

Bees make honey through a process. They add liquid from their own [17] to the [18] they have stored in the hive. The liquid breaks down the nectar into simple [19] As the honey is stored, it [20] It becomes thicker and darker.


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POST LISTENING ACTIVITY
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