biology-unraveling an internet text

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

www.nationalgeographic.com

lesson aims

• How to unravel the information from an source.
• how to rewrite the information in an understandable way.

Instructions

Read the text on Bats I sent you in Teams

then answer some of the questions on vocabulary (in English or in Dutch)

Give a description of :
habitat destruction

Give a synonym for
"lethal"

What does the word "migratory" remind you of?

Give a description of the word "hibernating"

Their food sypply is "Out of sync" with their timing when they come out of hibernation

Graphic organizer

Together we are now going to unravel the information by using the

Graphic Organizer.

Unravel the following sentences

about the Iberian Lynx

A very Dense text

 In the 20th century, the Iberian lynx population had declined because of overhunting and poaching, fragmentation of suitable habitats; the population of its main prey species, the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), experienced a severe decline caused by myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease.

Iberian lynx population had declined because of overhunting and poaching,

the population of its main prey species, the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), experienced a severe decline caused by myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease.

fragmentation of suitable habitats;