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The Puffin: The Clown of the Sea




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Listening Comprehension
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Watch a video about puffins and tick the correct answers.

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1 Where is the puffin colony situated?��

On an island off the coast������ On the main land����� In the State of Maine����� In the Indian Ocean

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2 Why do the cameramen use a special infra-red video?

Because puffins are afraid of light.���������������� ���� Because baby puffins always leave their nests at night.

Because the parents are not with their baby at night.�� Because the parents would attack the cameramen.

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3 When is a puffin�s bill colourful?

All the time.������� In winter���������� In the nesting season.�������� When it is not in the water.

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4 Puffins often attack each other during the mating season.

True���������������� False

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5 Puffins can use their bills to show that they like each other.

True������������������� False

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6 Which of the parent birds hatches the egg?

The female bird����������� The male bird��������������� Both birds hatch the egg at the same time

The parents take turns in incubating the egg.

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7 What do you think the narrator means by �TLC�?

Tender Loving Care������� Tasty Little Chick���� The Learning Channel���������� Total Loving Control

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8 The baby puffin finds its way to the ocean because its parents show it the way.

True�������������� False

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9 What natural dangers do puffins have to face?

Cold weather and storms������� Very cold water and sharks������� Storms and predators��� Other birds

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10 There are thousands of people who love this bird.

True�������������� False

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Watch the video again and fill the missing information in the following table.

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Number of eggs laid by a puffin couple every year

Time of incubation

days

Age of a baby puffin when it leaves its nest

�days

Flight speed of a puffin

�miles per hour

Number of wing beats

over �times a�minute

Time spent at sea before returning to the mating colony

�years

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Reading and Grammar
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You can read a lovely poem about Billie Bird if you use the verbs in brackets in the Simple Past Tense and write in the missing words. The images may help.
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Billie Bird (wake) up one morning

When the sun� (be) nice and bright.

When she� (ruffle) up her �

She� (be) really quite a sight.

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She� (open) up her orange �����������������������

And (let) out a big "tweet-tweet"

Then she� (hop) out of her

On her tiny birdie .

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She� (twitch) her back and forth

And� (look) up on her .

Then she (smooth) the feathers on her

"Now I look great!" She (say).

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She� (be) ready for a brand new day

And there� (be) very much to do.

So she� (spread) her two big brown

And then - away she� (fly)!

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