Bricks Reading 240 Nonfiction_L3_PPT_Unit 02.ppsx

Powerpoint Presentation focusing on Reading Comprehension

1. UNIT 2
The Tough
Life of
a Bumblebee

2. Build Background Knowledge
UNIT 1
Every year, global warming
is getting worse. It is
destroying the homes of
polar bears and penguins.
Do you know any animals that
are victims of global
warming ?
I know that bumblebees
are one of them!
We’ll learn how the
bumblebee is affected by
global warming and why
this happened.

3. Build Background Knowledge
〮 What is global
warming?
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How has global warming
impacted on bumblebees?
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4. Build Background Knowledge
UNIT 2
Watch a video clip.
Climate Change Puts Bumblebees in Peril

5. Build Vocabulary
victim
noun
someone who is hurt or harmed by
an event, such as an accident
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6. Build Vocabulary
adapt
verb
to change so it is easier to live
in a particular situation
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7. Build Vocabulary
draw
verb
to take out or remove something
from something else
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8. Build Vocabulary
decline
verb
to gradually become less or lower
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9. Build Vocabulary
shrink
verb
to become smaller
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10. Build Vocabulary
pollen
noun
a powder produced by the male
part of a flower
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11. Build Vocabulary
disappear
verb
to no longer exist
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12. Build Vocabulary
clue
noun
something that helps someone
find an answer
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13. Build Vocabulary | VISUALIZE
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14. Build Vocabulary | APPLY
UNIT 2
disappeared
shrink
draw
clue
declined

15. Build Vocabulary | More Practice
UNIT 2
Listen to the definition and click on the correct word.
victim
adapt
pollen
decline
draw disappear
victim clue
shrink adapt

16. Build Vocabulary | More Practice
Complete the cross word puzzle.
1. If you put some cream on your
mosquito bite, it will _______!
4. In the spring, you can see yellow
_______ all over the cars.
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5. When Scott moved to a cold
city, he _______ed by buying
warm clothes.
3. The _______s of the hurricane had
to move to a safe place. A
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A
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2. Bugs start to _______ as it gets colder.

17. Heat waves feel hotter on our skin. Storms and floods get worse each
year. The Arctic ice is breaking into pieces. Why is all this happening?
One reason is global warming. When people hear about global warming,
they worry about polar bears and penguins. But an unexpected is
the bumblebee. Some bumblebees now have shorter tongues than before.
How does global warming cause this?
Passage Reading
n. someone who is hurt or harmed
by an event, such as an accident
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What is happening
around us because of
global warming?
Question
What do you think this
passage will tell us?
Question
victim

18. Passage Reading
To answer this question, let’s look at the Central Rockies. Some of the
bumblebees there used to have long tongues. Their long tongues were
to out from deep-tubed flowers, such as the bluebell

and the foxglove. Summers became
hotter and drier, so there was not
enough water. As a result, the number

of flowers in the mountains.
Deep-tubed flowers became fewer as
well.
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v. to gradually become less or lower
v. to change so it is easier to
live in a particular situation
The Central Rockies
Why did some bumblebees
have long tongues?
Question
Why did the number of
deep-tubed flowers
decrease in the Rockies?
Question
adapted
v. to take out or remove
something from something else
nectar
declined
draw

19. Passage Reading
The hungry bumblebees had to visit other flowers to get food. But
because most flowers have short tubes, the bumblebees’ tongues were
too long for drinking nectar. So the bumblebees started to change!
They their tongues by 25 percent within 40 years. They fought
global warming by shortening their tongues.
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shrank
v. to become smaller
How did bumblebees
change to adapt to
short-tube flowers?
Question

20. It’s great for the bumblebees, but bad news for the deep-tubed flowers.
If there are no long-tongued bees, then who will spread the of
these flowers? They could forever! Global warming is affecting
all parts of the environment. But we don’t know exactly what’s going to
happen moving forward. Bumblebees could be the to understanding
the changes around us!
Passage Reading
UNIT 2
pollen
n. a powder produced by
the male part of a flower
disappear
v. to no longer exist
n. something that helps
someone find an answer
How could bumblebees’
shorter tongues be a bad
thing?
Question
clue

21. Passage Reading
UNIT 2
What does this
illustration show us?
Question
How does global warming
affect the ocean?
Question
What about the plants?
Question

22. After Reading
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26. After Reading
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27. After Reading
by
The number of honeybees
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We use the preposition “by” to tell how something goes
when using units of measurement (centimeters, hours, or
percentages) or changes in some way:
The price of eggs has decreased by 10% this month.
The average height for our class has grown by 2.5 cm.
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increased by 3 percent

28. the deep-tubed flowers
shrank their tongues to get food
would disappear
shorter tongues than before
the number of deep-tubed flowers declined
After Reading
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29. After Reading
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A cause is why it
happens and an effect
is what happens.
Warmer air and oceans
can produce more
extreme hurricanes.

30. Wrap Up
UNIT 2
Beat the Clock!
1. Who are the victims of global warming?
2. Why did the bumblebees in the Rockies shrink their tongues?
Challenge!
Answer each
question based on the passage in 30 seconds.
3. If there are no long-tongued bees, what would happen?
They are polar bears, penguins, and bumblebees.
The number of flowers declined and most flowers have
short tubes.
Deep-tube flowers could disappear forever.
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