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20 Remarkable Facts about Octopuses

a) Check new vocabulary and complete each gap below with one of the following words:

humans, ink, solitary, tentacles, hearing, cephalopods,

taste, sentient, muscle, octopi, minutes, nomadic, beaks,
snails, blood, tricks, squeeze, hearts, predators, shells
b) Find two false facts and correct them.

Octopuses…

1. are around 90% 2. spray ____________ 3. have the plural form 4. can open shells
____________ and into the water to hide ‘octopuses’, not with their sharp
have no bones. from foes. ‘____________’. ____________.

5. are eaten by sharks, 6. have three 7. collect 8. have green

dolphins… and ____________. ____________ and ____________.
____________. shiny objects.

9. can live out of water 10. can learn 11. change colour to 12. are ____________
for about 20 ____________, e.g. hide from and have no fixed
____________. opening a bottle. ____________. home.

13. have eight arms, 14. are related to 15. are ____________ 16. ____________ into
not ____________. ____________ and beings (can feel). tiny holes to avoid
slugs. enemies.

17. have good 18. are ____________ 19. are ____________, 20. ____________ with
____________, like and love to chill out. meaning ‘head- their arms.
humans. footed’.

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20 Remarkable Facts about Octopuses

Answers:

a) 1. muscle, 2. ink, 3. octopi, 4. beaks, 5. humans, 6. hearts, 7. shells, 8. blood, 9. minutes, 10. tricks,
11. predators, 12. nomadic, 13. tentacles, 14. snails, 15. sentient, 16. squeeze, 17. hearing,
18. solitary, 19. cephalopods, 20. taste.

b) 8. is false: octopuses have blue blood; 17. is false: octopuses are thought to be deaf, but have good
eyesight, like humans.

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