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VOCABULARY 1

Stink Lily, Venus flytrap,
1 Listen and read. TR: 6.1 Panama Southern Brazil

2 Listen and repeat. TR: 6.2 a leaf

Have you ever heard of a flower that
smells like rotting meat to attract
insects? Have you seen a plant close its
leaves over an insect? Can plants really
do these things? Let’s learn more about
the behavior of plants.
a stem

The stink lily gets its name from its The Venus flytrap attracts insects with
Pitcher plant
smell. The flower stinks like rotting a sweet odor. When an insect lands
meat. The smell attracts flies to the on an open leaf, the leaf closes and
plant—and then tricks them! When a traps the insect. Then the plant slowly
fly crawls on the flower, pollen sticks digests the insect over a period of
www.english0905.com to the fly. Then the fly takes the eight to ten days.
pollen and leaves it on the next plant
it visits. That’s how the stink lily makes

new plants.

Plants need light, air, water, and 3 Ask and answer. Work with a
nutrients to live. Roots absorb the partner. What did you learn?

nutrients that are in the ground and
water. Tiny creatures called bacteria How do plants
turn these nutrients into food that adapt to survive? Some plants trap insects.
the plant can use. But some places
don’t have a lot of these nutrients.
So some plants adapt. They follow
a different plan for survival. Their
strategy is to eat insects to live!

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