lucky reading game niv 3 week 8 easy

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 4

Lucky reading game

How?

1. Groups of four people, but only 1 laptop.
2. 10 minutes to read and fully understand the text. 
3. Correct answer? Pick a card!
   
4. Each card represents an amount of points.
   
5. When we're done, we are going to see which group wins.........

Questions?

Start

Read the text and make sure everyone fully understands the text.

The article is mainly about...

1. studying penguin poop to learn about their diet
2. the discovery of large, new penguin colonies
3. how climate change is affecting penguin populations
4. why penguin poop can be seen from satellite images

What is NOT true about the faeces of Adelie penguins, according to the text?

1. They get their colour from the krill in the penguins’ diet.
2. They are visible from space due to their colour and quantity.
3. They have allowed researchers to locate penguin colonies for many years.
4. They have changed in colour considerably since the late 1990s.

Why didn’t the researchers find the colonies in the Danger Islands before?

1. They hadn’t studied the satellite images.
2. It was too difficult for them to go to the Danger Islands.
3. The pink poop stains were not visible on previous satellite images.
4. They didn’t think to look for Adelie penguins in this location.

What TWO things are true about the Danger Islands? Choose TWO correct answers

1. They are small and do not appear on some maps.
2. They are a popular location for commercial krill fishing.
3. They are often surrounded and covered in sea ice.
4. They have never been surveyed until recently.

What TWO things are true about the Adelie penguin colonies on the Danger Islands? Choose TWO correct answers

1. They have only existed since 1982.
2. They are within a comparatively small area.
3. They contain more Adelie penguins than in the rest of Antarctica.
4. The number of penguins there has increased since the late 1990s.

According to the text, the number of Adelie penguins on the Danger Islands is...

1. increasing, probably due to climate change.
2. decreasing, probably due to climate change.
3. increasing, probably due to an increase in food availability
4. decreasing, probably due to a decrease in food availability.

Final question:
Researchers found out the age of the colony by...

1. studying remains found underground.
2. studying satellite images.
3. studying penguin faeces.
4. studying the shapes of bones and eggshells.

And now

Let's find out which group wins!