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Describe the picture. Whot do gou know obout deserts?
Reod.
What is o desert?
There ore different kinds of deserts. There
ore hot deserts ond there ore cold deserts.
The Sohoro Desert is the biggest hot desert
in the world. The GoblDesert is olwogs verg
What plonts ond onimols live in
cold. Some deserts ore sondg. Some deserts
hot deserts?
ore rockg. Other deserts hove mountoins.
PLonts ond onimo[s need woter to survive.
Antorctico is the co[dest ploce in the world, but
The desert is verg drg but omozinglg, there
it is o desert ond it is covered In snow ond ice"
ore monU plonts in the desert. There ore olso
monu onimols, lnsects ond birds. How do theg
Whdt ls the weother lfke fn survive?
the desert? Some plonts, like cocti, keep roin woter in their
Leoves for o [ong time. Other plonts hove [ong
A desert is o verg drg ploce. It hos verg
roots. The roots toke woter from deep under
Litt[e roin. It snows in Antorctico, but it does
the ground.
not often roin. In hot deserts, it is verg hot
during the dog ond then verg cold ot night. Some onimots in the desert never drink. Theg
When it roins, it roins suddenlg. But there get woter from seeds ond plonts. Mong
is verg little woter in the desert. Sometimes onimo[s ore nocturnol. This meons theg sleep
Uou con find woter in rocks underground. during the hot dog ond come out ot night.
These ploces ore coLled ooses. Some onimols Live underground for most of the
It con be verg windg in lhe desert, too. time becouse it is colder.
There con be sondstorms or snowstorms. People often trovel in the desert on comels.
In sondg deserts, the wind blows the sond These onimols con drink o Lot of woter verg
ond mokes big shopes Like mountoins. quicktg ond then theg do not need to drink for
These shopes ore coL[ed sond dunes. o veru [ong time. Theg ore perfect in the desert!
3 Reod ogoin ond write f (true) or F (foLse).
L It is olwogs hot in the desert. 2 It never roins in the desert.
3 AnimoLs ond p[onts Live in the desert. 4 Some onimoLs don't need woter.
4 Ask ond onswer.
L Hove Uou ever been to o desert? Whot wos it Like?
2 WouLd gou Like to go on o trip to the desert? Whg?
Extensive reoding: Life in the desert 9,
