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Reading A2






Fuente: peanuts

Hoy os traigo un texto para practicar la lectura y la comprensión, así como mejorar y ampliar el vocabulario. Ya sabéis que si es necesario podéis usar el diccionario. Muchos de los significados seguramente los podáis descubrir por el contexto.






Fuente: The teacher’s magazine

Ahora que habéis leído el texto os dejo aquí los ejercicios de comprensión correspondientes. Seguro que no os resulta difícil hacerlos, pero os dejo las soluciones al final para poder comprobar y aseguraros.

1.    Write the correct words for the following definitions:

a.    an animal preserved in rock……………..
b.    an animal or a plant that changed into Stone………………..
c.    to move slowly without a clear purpose (x2)………………….
d.    very happy, excited and pleased…………………
e.    a group of mountains………………….
f.     not enough of it available…………………
g.    solid matter that settles at the bottom of a liquid…………………
h.    somebody who studies ancient animals and plants that have been preserved in rock………………
i.      destroy gradually………………
j.      a plant that has feathery green leaves………………
k.    more tan what is needed or used………………
l.      a structure consisting of all the bones in an animal body……………..
m.  something used to make objects look bigger…………………

2.    Are these sentences true or false? Justify your answers.

1.    The strange landscape has remained unchanged for 225 million years.
2.    The strangely shaped rocks in Moon Valley were formed during the Triassic period.
3.    Evidence of prehistoric plants and animal life can be found in this área thanks to the process of petrifaction.
4.    The geological formation of the rocks has helped their erosion.
5.    No animal sor plants can live in Moon valley.

Key:
1.     a. fossil
b. petrified
c. wander about; wander around
d. thriller to bits
e. mountain range
f. scarce
g. sediment
h. paleontologist
i. erode
j. fern
k. surplus
l. skeleton
m. magnifying glass
2.
1. false
2. false
3. true
4. true
5. false

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