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Words in Original text Paraphrase in questions

1. Bee-eaters eat Bee-eaters’ Prey
2. Get rid of Remove
3. Farmland Agricultural land
4. Cut off Reduce
5. While flying In the air
6. Build nests/nesting Make nests
7. 30% of the birds One third of bee-eaters
8. Lay their eggs The eggs are laid on
9. Connect To be plugged into
10. Recharge Top up
Good vocabs for Animal topics:

1. Continue/carry the family’s name/lines: Duy trì nòi giống

2. Nesting sites: khu/nơi làm tổ
3. Turn A into B: biến A thành B (rivers are turned into concrete-walled canals)
4. Stratagem (formal của Strategy): kế hoạch, mưu mẹo

Format for new words

No. Words/phrases Pronunciation Meaning Examples

1. Average (verb) / ˈævərɪdʒ / To be equal to a particular amount as Economic growth is expected to
an average average 2% next year.
“its top competitors average
between 1,000 and 2,000
words a minute.”
2. Qualify for sth /'´kwɔli¸fai/ To be of a high enough standard to They must remember at least
enter a competition (đạt tiêu chuẩn) 50 percent of this in order to
qualify for the competition.
3. Become an essential skill in /əˈsɛnʃəl/ Trở thành 1 kỹ năng thiết yếu/quan Speed reading has become an
sth trọng trong lĩnh vực gì essential skill in any
environment where people
have to master a large volume
of information.
4. Predator /'predətə/ An animal that naturally preys on At least 30 % of the birds will be
others – động vật săn mồi killed by predators before they
can make it back to Europe the
following spring.
The life of the European bee-eaters

As the name suggests, bee-eaters hunt bees and other flying insects as their preys. They can efficiently make the bees harmless
by/remove bees’ stings by hitting their head on one side of the branch and rubbing the body on the other. By this way, the bees will be
harmless. The ideal natural habitats of this bird are farmland and river valleys/Agricultural land and river valleys offer ideal
feeding/eating/ling sites.

Due to the hibernation of bees in the winter, the bee-eaters will experience a long and risky migration to Africa from different parts of
Europe. During this journey, around one-third of their population dies because of predators. After that, By April, they return home/their
motherland to start breeding season. It normally takes up to 20 days to dig out 20 pounds of soil to successfully make a nest. After their
eggs hatch, bee-eater parents have to resort to the help of/cooperation of brother or uncle birds in order to feed the chicks.

Today, the population of bee-eaters are being seriously threatened by not only predators but a considerable/significant
reduction/decrease/decline or even disappearance of their preys and breeding sites. – by the abuse of pesticides