Nature

Choose the correct word. Cactuses can grow in dry ________________________, practically without any water.

Match the words to make phrases.

Choose the correct word. Doctors say it is very good to _________________________________ sea air.

Choose the correct word. The waters of the river ________________________ slowly.

Choose the correct variant. Tomorrow will be _________________________ sunny day.

Choose the correct variant. Are there any _____________________________ mountains in Wales?

Choose the correct variant. This is a very bad road. Are there _________________________ roads to the castle?

Choose the correct variant. Some people like fish and _____________________________ don’t.

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the right phrases. They Are So Much Like Us Many people think that penguins live in the places where it is very cold. But we can find them not only along the Antarctic continent (not the Arctic!) and islands. They also live in Peru, Brazil, Southwest Africa, New Zealand and. The penguin is famous because it can stand up straight and walk. When they walk they look funny to us. They look like people wearingand white shirts. Ages ago, the penguins were about 2 metres tall and could fly as well as any other bird. But todayand useless for flying. How did it happen? Many scientists say that it happened because penguins had. They lived on the territories where there was practically nobody dangerous for them. So they could safely spend all the time or in the water. They stopped using their wings. In time those wings became very small, and today they are useless for flying. But penguins are fantastic swimmers. Penguins also developedto protect them from the icy cold of the territories where they live.

Read the text and decide if the statements are True or False. Poets have written so many poems about the nightingale. They say its songs are the most beautiful songs in the world. Poets think that the nightingale sings only at night and at any season of the year. But this isn’t true. The nightingale lives in England only from the middle of April till the middle of June. The bird doesn’t visit Ireland, Wales or Scotland. On the continent people can hear the nightingale in many countries, especially in the south. The nightingale goes to Africa too. The bird sings at night and also during the day, but because other birds sing at the daytime too you can’t hear its songs very well. While the nightingale’s songs are the most beautiful songs of all birds its body is not very beautiful. The birds are reddish-brown. They build their homes in the grass.