Nature
Attack!
Killer Bees on the Attack
1. How are bees useful to people?
2. Are you afraid of bees? Why or
why not?
3. When do bees sting a person?
sting: what you get when a bee pokes its
stinger to your skin
: to poke a stinger into skin
beehive: a place where bees live.
beekeeper: a person who looks after bees
swarm: a large group of bees stinger
to your skin
; to move around in a large group
queen bee; a large female bee that
lays eggs for the wholes
worker bee: a bee that does work for
the whole group
drone: a male bee that does no work
breed attack spread escape
tell the difference
shiny
Killer Bees on the Attack
a. move toward violently attack
b. produce young breed
c. get away escape
d. cover a larger area spread
e. bright; filled with light shiny
f. know one thing from another
tell the difference
breed attack spread escape
tell the difference
shiny
tell the difference
1. It is not easy to ____________ between a honey bee
and a killer bee because they look almost the same.
attack
2. Killer bees ___________
people and animals for no
reason.
escape
3. Twenty-six African bees ___________
outside.
4. The African bees and the Brazilian bees started to
breed
___________
and make a new kind of bee.
5. The new bees went from one country to another.
They _____________
quickly.
spread
shiny
6. Killer bees attack people who are wearing _______
objects like jewelry.
Listening for the Main Ideas
1. A scientist wanted bees _________.
a. to go to Africa
c. to attack
b. to make more honey
d. to breed more
2. Scientists _________.
a. could not control the problem b. went to Brazil
c. grew every year
d. traveled to North America
3. People are afraid of killer bees because they
_________.
a. sting
c. attack and die
b. attack and sting in large groups
d. follow you
Listening / Looking for Details
They went to North America
1. Where did the killer bees go after they left
Central America?
They like to attack dark colors
2. What colors do killer bees like to attack?
They try to attack the face & head.
3. What part of the body do killer bees try to
attack?
Each killer bee stings only once
4. How many times does each killer bee sting?
5. When did the first American die from killer
bees? the first American died from killer bees stings in
1990
6. How many people have died from killer bees
up to now? A thousand people have died from
killer bees stings
Vocabulary in New Context
Rabbit breed quickly.
1. What animal breeds quickly?
Lions may attack people.
2. What dangerous animal may attack people?
3. What disease spreads easily? The flu can spread easily.
4. What kinds of animals are dangerous if they
escape? Tigers are dangerous if they escape.
5. What shiny pieces of jewelry do people wear?
People wear bracelets.
6. How can you tell the difference between a glass
cup and a plastic cup?
You can tell the difference by hitting the cup with a spoon.
die
move mean
meaning of this
1. I don't understand the _________
word
deadly
2. The blowfish has a _________
poison.
moving film.
3. It is a very _________
death
4. He lived in New York until his _________.
movement in the area where
5. There was no _________
the noise came from.
meaningful
6. He gave her a _____________ gift.
Find the mistakes
Texas
A man from texas died after he had been stung forty
times as he was trying to remove a nest. Since
January 1, 2000, there has been two serious attacks
Las Vegas
in las vegas. Bees stung a 79-year-old man thirty
March
,
times, but he lived. In march ,bees covered a 77-year-old-woman who is walking down the street. The bees
were attracted to something she was carrying in her
bag. Firefighters covered the woman with water to
remove more than 200 bees from her. Bees sting the
woman more than 500 times, but she lived ,too.
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