FINAL TASK

Read the following sentences about the lion:

The Lion is the king of the African carnivores.

Adult males usually weigh 180 kg.
The Lion's coat is a tawny color with white underparts.
Lions have black tail tuft, ear backs, and lips; mane varies from blond to black.
Lion cubs are often woolly with grayish, spotted coats, and change into their adult coat by 3
months of age.
Lions are often found in the Sub Saharan Africa.
Lions do not live in the jungle or rainforest.
Lions live wherever there are medium and large sized herbivores.
Lions feed on zebras, gazelles and other animals.
Lions spend 20 hours out of 24 conserving energy, becoming active in late afternoon when
mothers socialize with young cubs and one another.
The Lion hunts early and late nights, carrying over for a couple hours after daybreak.
Lions can become active any time, day or night, hungry or gorged, if prey are an easy catch.

Notice that all sentences are written using the present simple tense (underlined words)
The Lion is
The Lion hunts
Notice the difference between third person singular and plural:
Lions are
Lions live
Lions live
Notice the difference between affirmative and negative:
Lions do not live
Notice the way we talk about ability: Lions can become active

Now you have to work in pairs and look for information about the vertebrate animal
that you choose. You can visit the Wikipedia or other web pages such as this one:

http://www.abc-kid.com/
http://www.fi.edu/learn/hotlists/animals.php
http://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/animals

You have to fill in the following information card:

 AN INFORMATION CARD

Choose an animal you are interested in and make an information card:

Common name

Scientific name
Classification
(group, class, order, family,
genus, species)
Length

Weight
Description
Colours

Main features

Abilities

Food

Enemies

Habitat
Location
(continent, country)
Population

With this information you have to make a presentation to the rest of the class.
Don´t forget to make a beautiful picture of your animal.

Have fun!