UNIT 5: Back to nature

Part 1: Vocabulary
Exercise 1:
1. Waterfall
2. Valley
3. Bay
4. Cliff
Exercise 2:
1. Land
2. Sand
3. Ground
4. Soil
Exercise 3a:

Opening Mary Anning Dorothea Bate Evelyn

paragraph Cheesman

Natural Natural Coastal, Countryside, Canie,

words History, fossils outdoor insect
explorers, (remain in pursuits, house,
natural rocks), natural history, London
world geology, Natural History Zoological
biology, museum, society,
geologists, palaeontologist expeditions,
skeleton, , fossils, life, remote
ichthyosaur, Earth, locations,
fish-lizard, moutains, Galapagos
plesiosaur, cliffs, islands.
 sea-dragon, Mediterranean,
pterodactyl, hilltops, animal
flying- fossils
dragon, cliffs,
dog, rocks,
earth, cliff,
landslide
Linkin Consequently Although,
g , although, instead,
words because, however,
However, as, despite.
and, but,
when

Exercise 3b:
1. Lyme Regis – a coastal town in the South West of
England.
2. Fossils – remain in rocks.
3. Siblings – brothers and sisters.
4. Ichthyosaur – fish-lizard.
5. Plesiosaur – sea-dragon.
6. Pterodactyl – flying-dragon.
7. Tray – Mary’s dog.
8. Landslide – rock and Earth falling down a cliff.
9. Palaeontologist – scientist who studies fossils in order to
understand the history of life on Earth.
10. Canine – related to dogs.
11. Remote – far away.
Exercise 4:
 1. 
2. 

Part 2: Skills development

Exercise 1:
- What jellyfish look like: 3rd paragraph (from You may
also come across to best left alone).
- What barnacles are: 4th paragraph ( from Other
animals you may find to a piece of wood).
- How fossils are formed: 5th & 6th paragraph
- How seashells are form: the last paragraph.

Exercise 2:
- For an animal to become fossilized, it has to be buried
in mud, sand or soil.
- Over millions of years, the animal remains become
buried deeper and deeper; the mud, sand or soil
compresses and slowly becomes rock.
- Their bone or shell starts to crystallize, because of
surrounding minerals and chemicals.
- Sometimes the fossil dissolves completely and just
leaves an imprint.
- At other times, waves, tides and currents slowly make
the rocks erode, which allows the animal remains to
break off, ready for you to find.

Exercise 3:
1. ..mud, sand or soil.
2. …deeper and deeper
 3. …rock
4. …crystallize
5. ..process
6. …waves, tides and currents
7. …break off

Part 3: Exam practice

1. Drumsticks
2. Green pods
3. Green beans
4. Nutrients
5. Pickled
6. Dried
7. Spinach
8. Skin infections
9. Joints
10. Digestion
11. Pleasant
12. Milk flow
13. Delicacy