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summary. The lesson 'Desert Animals' tells us about the animals who live in the desert. ... In the dry, rockydeserts of America lives a snake called 'Rattle snake'.It is called rattle snake because it make a sound with its tail.Another animal which lives in desert is Mongoose.
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Desert Animals
OBJECTIVES
To enable the students to know about the lifestyle of animals in the desert.
To enable them to understand how they survive under very harsh conditions of the desert.
To make them aware about some strange and unique animals found in deserts.
To enable the students to get lesson from these animals and to learn how to adjust with adverse situation of life.
To enable the learners to extrapolate from the given text.
To enable them to use new words and phrases in their own language.
new words
Survive:Continue to live through hardship
Ram could not survive in the hot weather of Sahara desert.
Scorching: Very hot
Gerbils:A desert rat
Venom : Poision
Poking : hit hard with the fingers, a sharp hand gestures
Little kids always poke their nose.
Forage : the act of searching for food
Mongooses go together for forage.
Twitter : sound of birds
Scarce : very less in quantity
There is scarcity of food in some of the areas of
South Africa.
key points
Deserts are the driest places on the earth.
The animals that live in deserts have developed their ability to require less water.
Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in their underground burrows.
Darkling beetlescatches drops of moisture on their legs and lift them into the air and drops down into their mouth.
In the dry, rocky deserts of America lives a snake called ‘Rattle snake’.
It is called rattle snake because it make a sound with its tail.
Another animal which lives in desert is Mongoose. Mongooses love to go in search of food together.
They are famous for being able to kill snakes without getting hurt.
Another animal which lives in desert is the camel. They have long shaggy coats to keep warm in winter and shorter, tidier coats in the summer to keep cool.
There are two different kinds of camel in the desert. One is called ‘the Dromedary’. It has only single hump. The other one is called ‘Bactrian camel’ and has two humps.
People usually think that camel’s hump is a storage container and it store water in it. But it is not true. Actually humps are full of fat. This fat nourishes the camels when they have nothing to eat.
If they have nothing to eat for many days, their humps shrink because fat is used by them.
summary
The lesson ‘Desert Animals’ tells us about the animals who live in the desert. It tells us how they have adapted themselves according to the weather of desert and how they cope up with the harsh atmosphere of desert.
Deserts are the driest places on the earth.The animals that live in deserts have developed their ability to require less water. Like Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in their underground burrows.Darkling beetlescatches drops of moisture on their legs and lift them into the air and drops down into their mouth. In the dry, rocky deserts of America lives a snake called ‘Rattle snake’.It is called rattle snake because it make a sound with its tail.Another animal which lives in desert is Mongoose. Mongooses love to go in search of food together.They are famous for being able to kill snakes without getting hurt.Another animal which lives in desert is the camel. They have long shaggy coats to keep warm in winter and shorter, tidier coats in the summer to keep cool.There are two different kinds of camel in the desert. One is called ‘the Dromedary’. It has only single hump. The other one is called ‘Bactrian camel’ and has two humps.People usually think that camel’s hump is a storage container and it store water in it. But it is not true. Actually humps are full of fat. This fat nourishes the camels when they have nothing to eat.If they have nothing to eat for many days, their humps shrink because fat is used by them.
OBJECTIVES
To enable the students to know about the lifestyle of animals in the desert.
To enable them to understand how they survive under very harsh conditions of the desert.
To make them aware about some strange and unique animals found in deserts.
To enable the students to get lesson from these animals and to learn how to adjust with adverse situation of life.
To enable the learners to extrapolate from the given text.
To enable them to use new words and phrases in their own language.
new words
Survive:Continue to live through hardship
Ram could not survive in the hot weather of Sahara desert.
Scorching: Very hot
Gerbils:A desert rat
Venom : Poision
Poking : hit hard with the fingers, a sharp hand gestures
Little kids always poke their nose.
Forage : the act of searching for food
Mongooses go together for forage.
Twitter : sound of birds
Scarce : very less in quantity
There is scarcity of food in some of the areas of
South Africa.
key points
Deserts are the driest places on the earth.
The animals that live in deserts have developed their ability to require less water.
Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in their underground burrows.
Darkling beetlescatches drops of moisture on their legs and lift them into the air and drops down into their mouth.
In the dry, rocky deserts of America lives a snake called ‘Rattle snake’.
It is called rattle snake because it make a sound with its tail.
Another animal which lives in desert is Mongoose. Mongooses love to go in search of food together.
They are famous for being able to kill snakes without getting hurt.
Another animal which lives in desert is the camel. They have long shaggy coats to keep warm in winter and shorter, tidier coats in the summer to keep cool.
There are two different kinds of camel in the desert. One is called ‘the Dromedary’. It has only single hump. The other one is called ‘Bactrian camel’ and has two humps.
People usually think that camel’s hump is a storage container and it store water in it. But it is not true. Actually humps are full of fat. This fat nourishes the camels when they have nothing to eat.
If they have nothing to eat for many days, their humps shrink because fat is used by them.
summary
The lesson ‘Desert Animals’ tells us about the animals who live in the desert. It tells us how they have adapted themselves according to the weather of desert and how they cope up with the harsh atmosphere of desert.
Deserts are the driest places on the earth.The animals that live in deserts have developed their ability to require less water. Like Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in their underground burrows.Darkling beetlescatches drops of moisture on their legs and lift them into the air and drops down into their mouth. In the dry, rocky deserts of America lives a snake called ‘Rattle snake’.It is called rattle snake because it make a sound with its tail.Another animal which lives in desert is Mongoose. Mongooses love to go in search of food together.They are famous for being able to kill snakes without getting hurt.Another animal which lives in desert is the camel. They have long shaggy coats to keep warm in winter and shorter, tidier coats in the summer to keep cool.There are two different kinds of camel in the desert. One is called ‘the Dromedary’. It has only single hump. The other one is called ‘Bactrian camel’ and has two humps.People usually think that camel’s hump is a storage container and it store water in it. But it is not true. Actually humps are full of fat. This fat nourishes the camels when they have nothing to eat.If they have nothing to eat for many days, their humps shrink because fat is used by them.
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