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Penguins
Downloadable worksheets:
Where is the Penguin Preposition Dominoes and Memory Cards Part 2 of 2 (With Poster and Poem)
Level:
elementary
Age:
5-14
Downloads:
524
Where is the Penguin Preposition Dominoes and Memory Cards Part 1 of 2 (With Poster and Poem)
Level:
elementary
Age:
5-14
Downloads:
440
I LOVE PENGUINS
Level:
elementary
Age:
9-12
Downloads:
314
PENGUINS - READING COMPREHENSION + 4 DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES
Level:
intermediate
Age:
14-17
Downloads:
284
Describing Penguins
Level:
elementary
Age:
11-17
Downloads:
183
Animal World: Penguins
Level:
intermediate
Age:
9-15
Downloads:
152
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1. By May, the warmer temperates allow the penguin collony to break out.��
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�� 2. Mothers take care of the chicks right away.��
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�� 3. Males may lose up to half their body weight during the winter.��
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�� 4. Chicks start eating as soon as they hatch.���
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�� 5. After 4 months of fasting there is nothing in the male's stomach.���
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�� 6. The father produces a protein to feed the chick.���
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�� 7. The protein keeps the baby alive for a whole month.��
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�� 8. Mothers reappear just in time.���
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�� 9.�The male penguin�gladly hands over�his chick to the mother.���
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�� 10. During the next 5 months the chick will eat 50 kilos of food.���
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�� 11. In only one�helping, the chick can eat one third of its body weight.���
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�� 12.�Now male penguins can head out to the ocean to fish.���
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�� 13. The ice edge is very close to the breeding ground.��
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�� 14. Emperor penguins walk and�toboggan through the snow�on their way to the ice edge.��
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�� 15. Only male penguins fish.� The female stays with the chick.��
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�� 16. Each trip involves thousands of kilometres in search of food.��
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Fill in the blanks with the missing word.
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birds -�breathe - cold - fat - feathers - fly
food -
hard -
hunt - largest - predator - seafood - skin
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snow - underwater - warm - water - white - winter �
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Penguins are aquactic
�that live in the southern hemisphere.� They are not able to
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Penguins cannot
underwater but are able to hold their breath for a long time. Whenever they need to breathe, they leap out of the
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Since penguins live in very
places they need to stay
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, called "blubber",�under their
, protects them from the freezing temperature.� They also have two layers of
: soft and fluffy "down" feathers and outer waterproof feathers.�
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Penguins eat
.� Fish is their main diet but they also eat squid, crustaceans and krill, which are very
�shrimplike animals.
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Several marine animals, such as leopard seals,� sea lions and orcas like to
penguins.� The penguins' colours, black and
, are their protection against predators.� Their white bellies blend with the
and sunlight making it difficult for an underwater
to see them.� The black back also offers protection as it blends against the dark ocean waters making it
to spot them from above.
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Penguins are found on the coasts os South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Galapagos� Islands.� The Emperor penguin, the
�penguin species, is the only one that breed and nest in Antarctica through the very cold
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Click on the name of each�marine predator.
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. Vocabulary: Match the word to its meaning.
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1. aquactic�
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going without food
2. to toboggan
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living in water
3. chick
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an area where animals breed
4. fasting
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emerge
5. breeding ground�
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to slide
6. hatch
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a natural substance
7. one helping
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start out, leave
8. head out�
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an amount of food
9. protein
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give away, devolve
10. hand over
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a baby bird
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