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Polar Bears & Climate Challenges

1. The document summarizes a reading passage about a study tracking a female polar bear and her cub swimming continuously for over nine days. 2. It then asks questions about the passage and provides short answer responses summarizing details like how scientists tracked the polar bear's travel using a GPS collar and why sea ice is important for polar bears to hunt seals. 3. The document concludes with exercises on writing questions for given answers found in the passage, finding synonyms, and identifying vowel sounds within given words from the passage. It also provides a short opinion essay response on whether climate change is the biggest problem facing the planet.

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Polar Bears & Climate Challenges

1. The document summarizes a reading passage about a study tracking a female polar bear and her cub swimming continuously for over nine days. 2. It then asks questions about the passage and provides short answer responses summarizing details like how scientists tracked the polar bear's travel using a GPS collar and why sea ice is important for polar bears to hunt seals. 3. The document concludes with exercises on writing questions for given answers found in the passage, finding synonyms, and identifying vowel sounds within given words from the passage. It also provides a short opinion essay response on whether climate change is the biggest problem facing the planet.

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READING

1 . Read the text and mark the answers true or false. Provide evidence from the
text to justify your answers.
1 The polar bear in the study was swimming alone.
False that a polar bear and her one-year-old cub swam continuously (Paragraph A)
2 Habitat loss is the main threat to polar bears.
True the melting of the Arctic ice is the biggest threat to the survival of polar bears
(Paragraph C)
3 There are now 170 days a year when the Arctic is not frozen.
False Currently there are 150 to 160 ice-free days in the Arctic each year (Paragraph D)
4 The WWF are certain about the location of the conservation project.
False The WWF still need to research where the last ice area will be situated
(Paragraph E)

2 . Answer the question according to the information in the text. Use your own
words.
1 How could scientists tell how far the polar bear had travelled?
They put the mother bear a GPS collar. Thats how they could tell how far the polar bear
travelled.
2 Why is sea ice important for polar bears?
Because it is the place where they give birth their young and where they rest. It is also the
place from where they hunt seals and other marine mammals.
3 Why is polar ice disappearing more quickly?
Because of the global warming.
4 What was the purpose of the special edition cola cans?
The purpose was to encourage people to donate money to the last ice area conservation
project to protect polar bears habitats.

USE OF ENGLISH
3 . Write questions for the answers according to the information in the text.
1 More than nine days.
How long were the female polar bear and her cub swimming?
2 Seals and other marine mammals.
Which animals do the polar bears hunt?

4 . Find synonyms in the text for the following words.


1 SHOWN (P.A)

To reveal
2 COMPLETE (P.A)
Entire
3 AMAZING (P.B)
Extraordinary
4 DECREASE (P.D)
To decline

5 . Which of the following words have the vowel sound /A/ as in covering in
paragraph A?
Mother and body.

WRITING
1 Choose one of the tasks. Write 100-150 words.
1 - Write an opinion essay with the title: Climate change is the biggest problem facing our planet.
Do you agree?
Im not very sure if climate change is the biggest problem facing our planet. I think it is one of the
biggest, but not the biggest one. Our planet is facing other problems like wars, etc. that are
causing many deaths, and what is the point of stop the climate change and contribute to have a
cleaner environment if there is no people to live in this planet?
I think most of the problems that our world is facing are related, and one of the things that all of
them have in common is that they are threatening against life. We live in a selfish world.
What we have to do is stop the wars and start worry about other important things, stop worry only
about our interests. Worry for others, worry about the environment, etc. That is the solution to
most of the problems that exist in our world.
If we stop the worlds wars and we start focusing in other problems, Im sure problems like the
climate change, the loss of biodiversity, the ozone layer depletion, etc. maybe wont stop, but
they would get better, if we all play our part.

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