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Language worksheet 1
Vocabulary building
1 Draw a line to match each word with its meaning. The first one has been done for you.

Word Meaning

Skeleton the bones in your chest

Bones the bones in your back

Skull the bone that joins your leg to the

upper part of your body

Rib cage the hard, strong frame that supports

our body

Spine the bone that moves when we eat or

talk

Hip hard parts that form the skeleton

Jaw the bones of the head

2 Write the correct word for each of these descriptions.

a Something that gives support and shape from the inside.

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b An object or drawing that helps us understand how something works,

or what something looks like, that we can’t see in real life.

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c Animals with no backbone.

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d Parts of the body joined to the bones that allow you to move.

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e Substances that make our water, air and land dirty.

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3 Write one word for each of the underlined parts in the following sentences.
a The job or use of the ribs is to keep safe the heart and lungs.

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b The heart and lungs are parts inside the body that do different jobs.

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c Muscles always work in groups of two. When one muscle gets shorter,
the other muscle gets longer.

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d A crab has a hard covering on the outside of the body.

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e When we are ill, we take drugs that make our bodies better.
They can also stop us from getting ill.

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Language worksheet 2
Skills development
1 Vertebrates and invertebrates are different.
a In Box 1, draw a picture of an animal that is a vertebrate.
Write the name of the type of animal in the space underneath its picture.
b In Box 2, draw a picture of an animal that is an invertebrate.
Write the name of the type of animal in the space underneath its picture.
Box 1 Box 2

c Finish these sentences

I know that the _______________ is a vertebrate because ___________________________

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I know that the _______________ is an invertebrate because ________________________

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2 Look at the label on the bottle of tablets that belong to Mrs Pather.

a What time of day should Mrs Pather take her tablets?

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b What is the total number of tablets Mrs Pather must take?

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c Should she take her tablets before she eats food? How do you know?

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d Write two more instructions for how to take medicine safely.

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Language worksheet 1
Vocabulary building

Use the clues to find words with those meanings in the word search grid.
Circle each word you find and write the word next to its meaning.

Clues
makes things move or change _______________
to say what you think will happen _______________
to move something from one place to another _______________
what you find out from the results of an investigation _______________
energy that makes the temperature of something increase _______________
the order in which animals eat plants and other animals to get energy _______________
the name for an animal that eats only plants _______________
the name for an animal that eats other animals _______________
the name for an animal that eats plants and other animals _______________

H F I T R A N S F E R
C O N C L U S I O N S
H O L A P W T B M U P
E D K R M P B F N T G
R C E N E R G Y I D O
B H G I J E N X V A L
I A S V Y D I R O J D
V I Z O V I E L R D T
O N Q R Y C U I E O L
R P H E A T S D F G L
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Language worksheet 2
Skills development
Food chains always contain a producer, a predator and prey.
1 What is a producer?

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2 What is the difference between a predator and prey?

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3 Write down the names of the predator and the prey in each of the sentences below.
a A shark eats a turtle.
predator ___________________________________________________________________

prey _______________________________________________________________________

b A fly is caught in a spider’s web.

predator ___________________________________________________________________

prey _______________________________________________________________________

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4 Read about pythons and then answer the questions.

Most pythons are giant snakes. Pythons live in moist, hot places in Asia and Africa.
They are carnivores.
Pythons have very strong muscles.
They use their muscles to coil their bodies around their prey and slowly squeeze
them until they die.
The python then swallows its prey whole, starting with the head.
Most pythons are green or brown in colour.
These colours allow them to blend in with their surroundings and surprise their
prey so that they can coil around them and eat them.
a Are most pythons big or small?
Write a down a word from the reading that tells you this.

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b Do pythons live in wet or dry places?

Write a down a word from the reading that tells you this.

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c The python is a carnivore. What is a carnivore?

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d Name another example of a carnivore.

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e What colours are most pythons?

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f How do a python’s colours help it to catch prey?

Explain in your own words.

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g Describe another way that the python’s body helps it to get its food.

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