Animals
Read the texts and find out what animals are they about. There are two animals that
don’t fit. Preberi besedila in ugotovi, katere živali opisujejo. Dve živali sta preveč.
KANGAROOS
KOALA BEARS
PANDA BEARS
SNAKES
SHARKS
LIONS
POLAR BEARS
HIPPOPOTAMUS
TORTOISES
1. _________________
They are from the Arctic. Baby ___________ aren’t very big but adult ones are very
strong.
2. _________________
It lives in Africa. It is a very strange animal. It is very fat and heavy. His skin is very
thick and he has a horn in the middle of her forehead. Its body is long, but its tail is
short. It its grass.
3. _________________
They can jump 9 metres. They can jump very fast – 30 kilometres per hour. Baby
____________ are very small-only 3 centimetres long. They can’t jump and they can’t
see. They can see when they are 9 weeks old. They can jump when they are 8 months
old. They can’t run and they can’t walk. They live in Australia.
4. _________________
They are from Australia. They live in trees. Adult _________ aren’t very big. They are
only 0,5 metres tall: baby __________ are very small. They are only 2 centimetres tall!
5. _________________
They live in all parts of the world. There are 250 different ones. They all eat meat.
A white ________ isn’t very nice. It’s very big – 6 metres long. It eats fish, small sharks,
seals and people! It swims very fast – 65 kilometres an hour. People only swim 6
kilometres an hour. A remora is a small fish – only 45 centimetres long. It lives on it. It
eats food from it and swims with it.
6. _________________
They are from China. Adult __________ are very big: they are 130 kilos. Baby ones
aren’t very big; only 1,5 kilos. They are black and white.
7. _________________
They come from warm countries – Spain, Greece, Italy, North Africa, Australia – but they
can live in cold countries, too. Many of them live in gardens in Great Britain and North
America. When it is cold they sleep for 20-24 weeks. Big ones can live for 150 years.
Small ones can live for 50 years. They eat plants. They can’t fly and they can’t climb, but
they can walk at 5 kilometres per hour.