Language/Comprehension skills with Cloze Week 7, Term3 2020

Language/Comprehension skills with Cloze Week 7, Term3 2020

Read the text and fill in the blank spaces with the right word from the

selection below. You can write just the answers in your Language Book.

rays important ball burning Sun years Earth

right dark South warm gases grow from

star

Sunshine is the light from the Sun. Without the ______________ there would be

no light or life on Earth. It would be _____________ and frozen.

The heat from the Sun makes our planet _____________ and provides energy

for all living things. It makes the trees _______________ and the flowers bloom. It

also makes people happy.

Thousands of _______________ ago, people worshipped the Sun. Even then,

they knew how _________________ the Sun was to life on Earth.

The Sun is just an ordinary ____________ but it is more than a million times the

size of Earth. It is a ________________ of fiery gases, mostly hydrogen and

helium. These exploding _______________ create the light and heat.

The Sun is 151.39 million kilometres away, but that’s the _________________

distance for us. The amount of heat we receive _______________ the Sun

depends on where we live on Earth. The Sun’s ________________ are hottest at

the equator and coldest at the North and ______________ Poles.

But wherever we are, as long as the ______________ keeps revolving around

the sun, and the sun keeps ____________, there will be sunshine.

Language/Comprehension skills with Cloze Week 7, Term3 2020

Read the text and then answer the questions in Part One, Part Two and

Part Three in your Language Book.

Whales are larger than the biggest dinosaurs? It’s true! In fact, the blue

whale is the biggest mamma in existence. A baby blue whale is much

larger than an elephant.

Although whales live in water, they are mammals not fish. This is because

whales have lungs, are warm-blooded, have a small amount of hair,

give birth to live young, and the young feed on milk from their mother. A

baby whale is called a calf.

There are two groups of whales – the toothed whales and the

whalebone, or baleen whales. Both groups have embryonic teeth when

young, but in baleen whales the teeth never develop. They have plates

of whalebone, or baleen, through which they sift tiny sea organisms,

called krill, from the water. The humpback whale is the largest of the

baleen whales. Toothed whales prey on larger sea creatures, such as

seals and fish. The sperm whale, the killer whale (also known as the ‘Wolf

of the Sea’ and some dolphins and porpoises are from the family of

toothed whales.

Because whales are often found in very cold water, under their skin they

have a thick layer of fat called blubber. This helps to protect them from

the cold.

Whales have a large lung capacity, but still need to come to the

surface to get air. They blow out the stare air through a hole in their

head, a procedure called ‘spouting’.

Whales were once hunted for their oil and whalebone, but as many

whale species are in danger of extinction, whaling has been banned on

most countries.

Language/Comprehension skills with Cloze Week 7, Term3 2020

1. Name the biggest mammal.

2. How are whales protected in cold water?

3. Why were whales hunted?

4. Describe spouting.

5. True/false

a) Whales are the largest fish.

b) Some whales are larger than elephants.

6. Name the two main types of whale and give an example of

both types.

7. List 5 characteristics of mammals.

Language/Comprehension skills with Cloze Week 7, Term3 2020

8. Find words in the passage that mean:

a) living

b) fat

c) size

d) types

e) stopped

9. Should whaling be banned? Give some reasons for your answer.

10. Suggest some ways that people can help increase whale numbers.