Bees and our food

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: Ray's beesListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What does it mean?Grammar exercise
10. 10Reporting what people thinkGrammar rule
11. 11Report itGrammar exercise
12. 12Say it naturallySpeaking practice
13. 13A plan for pollinatorsSpeaking practice
14. 14Let's discussDiscussion
15. 15Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: reporting what people thinkGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: an animal in dangerDiscussion

Words

• pollinator/ˈpɑːləneɪtər/

  an animal, usually an insect, that carries pollen from flower to flower so that plants can make fruit and seeds (pollinate: to do this)

• colony/ˈkɑːləni/

  a group of bees, ants or other animals of one kind that live together

• decline/dɪˈklaɪn/

  a fall in the number, amount or quality of something (also a verb)

• pesticide/ˈpestɪsaɪd/

  a chemical used to kill insects or other animals that harm crops

• parasite/ˈpærəsaɪt/

  an animal or plant that lives on or in another one and feeds on it

• resistant/rɪˈzɪstənt/

  not harmed or changed by something (resistant to)

• habitat/ˈhæbɪtæt/

  the natural place where an animal or plant lives

• endangered/ɪnˈdeɪndʒərd/

  in danger of disappearing from the world forever

• drought/draʊt/

  a long period with little or no rain

• die out/ˌdaɪ ˈaʊt/

  to become less and less common and then disappear completely

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about bees.

1. Do you like honey? What do you eat it with?
2. Are you afraid of bees or wasps? Have you ever been stung?
3. Which fruits grow where you live? Where do the others come from?

Grammar rule

Reporting what people think

In news and science writing, we often report what people think or say without saying exactly who. Use a passive reporting verb such as believe, think, say, know, expect or estimate.

Pattern	Example
It + is / was + said / thought… + that + clause	It is thought that the fire started in the kitchen.
subject + is / was + said / thought… + to + verb	The singer is said to be very shy in real life.
subject + is / was + said / thought… + to have + past participle	The thieves are believed to have escaped by boat.

Use to have + past participle for something that happened earlier: He is thought to have left the country (= people think that he left). The unit's grammar lesson practices these patterns fully.