English Exercises: Amazing Animals: The Sloth

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Amazing Animals: The Sloth

Do you know the sloth?

This is a picture of a sloth:

Read this text about the sloth and choose the right words:

A sloth an animal. It in Central America and in South America. A sloth usually around 4 kg and is around 58 cm It is the slowest mammal the world. It is really, really slow... It is so slow that small plants called algae grow on fur! These small plants make it look a bit green.

A sloth likes to sleep. It sleeps 15-20 every day.

It lives in the treetops. It very dangerous for it to come down from the trees. It is difficult it to walk on the ground.

These days, the sloths having a hard time. People build houses and roads where the sloths used to live.

This is a sloth trying to cross a road.... It is very dangerous to cross the road.

Mother and son in the rain forest...

This is the text you read before. Write the missing words:

A slothh is an . It lives in Central America and in South America. A sloth usually around 4 kg and is 58 cm long. It is the mammal in the world. It is really, really slow... It is so slow that small plants called algae on its fur! small plants make it look a bit .

A sloth to sleep. It sleeps 15-20 hours day.

It lives in the treetops. It is very for it to come down from the trees. It is for it to walk on the ground.

Now watch this video. A sloth is trying to cross the road in Costa Rica...

How many sloths did you see?
Wgich languages did you hear in the video?
Who helped the sloth?
Where did the sloth want to go?

Well done! Now check your score!

: ) Karina