Learn English through Stories Level 1: All about Desert Life by Julie Penn | English Listening
The story I will share with you today is “All about Desert Life” by Julie Penn.
It covers the climate, plants, and animals that adapt to deserts around the world. It also looks at how peoples like the Tuareg and Aborigines have traditionally lived in desert environments. Finally, it examines the issue of desertification and efforts people are making to stop the spread of deserts. Overall, the text provides a overview of desert life and human interactions with these unique biomes.
Questions and Answers:
1. What percent of Earth’s land is desert?
More than 20 percent
2. What is the biggest hot desert on Earth?
The Sahara Desert
3. What desert is in Peru and Chile and is one of the driest on Earth?
The Atacama Desert
4. What plant can store thousands of liters of water in the desert?
The baobab tree
5. What insect puts its eggs underground in the desert?
Ants
6. What animal has a thick skin to help save water?
Reptiles
7. What people lived in the desert in Australia over 40,000 years ago?
Aborigines
8. What people are called the blue people because of their clothes?
Tuareg people
9. What is an oasis in the desert?
A lake or pond where groundwater comes to the surface
10. How can people in cold deserts collect water from fog?
With nets to collect fog water
11. How do Bedouin and Tuareg people protect themselves from the sun?
With long clothes and head cloths
12. What animal can swim under the sand when it gets too hot?
Sand swimmers
13. What do people race at the festival near Timbuktu?
Camels
14. What is the problem caused when too many farms are in one place?
Desertification
15. How are people trying to stop desertification in China?
Planting a wall of trees
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Chapter 1: What is a Desert
02:16 Chapter 2: Different Deserts
04:06 Chapter 3: Plants
05:48 Chapter 4: Animals
07:25 Chapter 5: Day and Night
09:06 Chapter 6: People
10:47 Chapter 7: Water in the Desert
12:19 Chapter 8: Staying Cool
13:53 Chapter 9: Living in the Desert
15:35 Chapter 10: Desertification
17:19 Difficult words
23:20 Questions
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