Материал для уроков английского языка «Unusual Animals»

The continent that can surprise Автор: Илютина А.В. г.Кольчугино МБОУ СОШ №1

If you want to see unusual animals, birds and plants, Australia is a good place to go. The kangaroo is an Australian animal that everybody knows. The biggest of the fifty kinds is the red kangaroo. They can jump more than four metres and travel at seventy kilometres an hour. Kangaroos eat grass and live in small groups.

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Everybody loves the sleepy grey koalas. Like kangaroos, they have a pouch on their fronts for their babies. After six months in the pouch, koala babies ride on their mother’s back. The word “koala” means “no water”. Not everybody knows that the koala only looks like a bear but in fact is a different animal.

Two Australian animals, the echidna and the duckbill are really very unusual. Their babies come from eggs but drink milk from their mothers. No other animals in the world do this.

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There are more than eight hundred kinds of birds in Australia. The continent is the home for budgies.

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The emu , which is two metres tall, is the second largest bird in the world. It can’t fly, but it can run at fifty kilometres per hour. The emu , which is two metres tall, is the second largest bird in the world. It can’t fly, but it can run at fifty kilometres per hour.

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There is the kookaburra bird. Its cry sounds like somebody’s laughter.

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Eucalyptus trees, or gum trees, grow in many places in Australia. These strong trees grow very fast and don’t die when there are forest fires.

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