English Second Foreign Language · 3rd secondary · First Term

The Natural World

About this lesson

This unit focuses on the natural world, including natural wonders, wildlife, and weather. It develops reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills through texts about Victoria Falls, Table Mountain, Lake Malawi, and amazing animals and plants like the giraffe, starfish, bamboo, and Venus flytrap. Students practice comparatives and superlatives, learn vocabulary related to nature and weather, and write descriptive paragraphs. The unit also includes a story about a princess who laughs at a parade, and a conversation about Egyptian wonders.

Main topics in this lesson

  • Natural wonders and wildlife
  • Weather forecasts and conditions
  • Comparatives and superlatives
  • Descriptive writing about nature
  • Amazing animals and plants
  • Story: The Princess's Laughter
  • Egyptian wonders (ancient and modern)

Key terms and vocabulary

  • towering
  • landmark
  • species
  • mist
  • rise
  • flat
  • biodiverse
  • adapt
  • Venus flytrap
  • sensitive
  • shrinks
  • nutrients
  • desert
  • tongue
  • doubt
  • kingdom
  • worthy
  • determination
  • prove
  • strength
  • vast
  • waterfalls
  • rainforests
  • stretch
  • sand dunes
  • stay hydrated
  • importance
  • weather forecast
  • nature
  • snapping

Questions and answers on The Natural World - practice and revision

Multiple choice questions on this lesson in English Second Foreign Language for 3rd secondary, First Term, with practice exercises for revision and exam preparation.

1

The Venus flytrap is a plant that snaps shut to catch insects because it needs ...... from them.

  • 1 nutrients
  • 2 mist
  • 3 sand dunes
  • 4 forecasts
2

Victoria Falls is one of the most ...... waterfalls in the world, so visitors come from everywhere to see it.

  • 1 towering
  • 2 flat
  • 3 sensitive
  • 4 worthy
3

The giraffe has a very long tongue that helps it reach leaves high in trees. This shows that the giraffe has ...... to life in its environment.

  • 1 adapted
  • 2 shrunk
  • 3 doubted
  • 4 stretched
4

Yesterday's weather was bad, but today's weather is even ______.

  • 1 worse
  • 2 worst
  • 3 more bad
  • 4 baddest
5

Lake Malawi is ______ than many other lakes because it contains a huge number of fish species.

  • 1 more biodiverse
  • 2 biodiverse
  • 3 most biodiverse
  • 4 the biodiverse
6

The giraffe has a very long tongue, but the Venus flytrap is one of the most ______ plants in the world.

  • 1 sensitive
  • 2 flat
  • 3 vast
  • 4 worthy

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