4 All About Plants

Subject Area Activities Answers

The World of Science & Technology Pages 24–25 1 Plants: They keep growing; Plants and Animals:
They are living things. They feed. They breathe. They grow. Animals:
Topics & Curriculum Links They move from place to place. They don’t grow when they are older.
2 1 There were no plants or animals. 2 The first plants grew in water.
plant classification (Science) 3 The first plants grew on land. 4 There were animals on Earth.
plant parts (Science) 3 1 two billion 2 300,000 3 hundreds of millions 4 400 million
a plant life cycle (Science) 4 1 true 2 false 3 true 4 true 5 false 6 true 5 Plants can breathe, grow,
and make new plants.
photosynthesis (Science)
Pages 26–27 1 1 Seed plants: flowering plants, conifers; non-seed
plants in the environment (Science; Geography) plants: ferns, mosses 2 1 seeds 2 don’t make 3 seeds 4 flowers 5 non-
plants in danger (Geography, Civics) seed 3 1 They aren’t seeds, but new plants grow from them: spores
animals (Science) 2 It makes seeds, but it doesn’t produce flowers: conifer 3 It produces
flowers: flowering plant 4 It doesn’t make seeds: non-seed plant
plant materials (Science; Technology) 5 Most plants make them: seeds 4 1–5 free answers
sizes and measurements (Mathematics) Pages 28–29 1 1 flower 2 leaf 3 stem 4 roots 2 1 Roots take water
first plants; plant fossils (History; Science) from the soil. 2 Stems support the plant. 3 Leaves make food for the
plant. 4 Flowers make seeds. 5 New plants grow from the seeds.
Vocabulary 6 Seeds are in the fruit. 3 1 Leaves: cabbage; Stems: asparagus;
plants; plant parts; food; weather; places; animals; Flowers: broccoli; Roots: potato; Fruits: apple 4 1 The main parts are
materials; numbers; measurements leaves, stems, roots, and flowers. 2 The roots. 3 The stems.
4 Lots of parts. 5 Seeds 6 free answers
Grammar Pages 30–31 1 1 seeds 2 flowers 3 pollen 4 fruit 5 pollination
6 water 2 1 false 2 true 3 true 4 true 5 false 3 1 water 2 male
present simple; present continuous; past simple; question
3 pollination 4 seeds 5 fruit 4 1 seed 2 plant 3 flowers 4 insects
forms; imperative; adjectives; prepositions; adverbs 5 grow 6 fruit
Pages 32–33 1 1 glucose 2 oxygen 3 water 4 carbon dioxide
Teaching Ideas 5 sunlight. Plants use: sunlight, carbon dioxide, water; Plants make:
glucose, oxygen 2 1 Plants can make their own food. 2 Plants use
See also pages 6–7 for general ideas that you can adapt. sunlight to make glucose. 3 During photosynthesis plants produce
Or go to www.oup.com/elt/teacher/readanddiscover oxygen. 4 Photosynthesis happens in leaves. 5 In the leaves there is
chlorophyll. 6 The chlorophyll catches the sunlight. 3 1 food 2 sunlight
READ & TALK A Plant Presentation 3 use 4 change 5 winter
After completing Project 2, students present their plant Pages 34–35 1 1 shade 2 quickly 3 cold 4 flowers 5 shelter
poster to the rest of the class. They can write or talk about 2 1 arctic buttercup 2 cactus 3 sea grass 4 cactus 5 cactus 6 sea grass
their plant like this: The plant is called ... The fruit is called ... / 3 cactus: dry, top, water, stem; arctic buttercup: cold, small, ground;
sea grass: underwater, pollinate 4 1 In very dry, cold, or wet places,
The vegetable is from the root / stem / leaf / flower. It comes
or in places where there isn’t much sunlight. 2 Because its roots are
from [Countries]. The flower is ... The leaf is ... Students can then near the top of the ground. 3 To help the flowers live in the wind
display all the posters together, organizing them into fruit and the cold. 4 The waves.
and vegetables, or by different types of plant. Pages 36–37 1 1 colors 2 bird 3 bee 4 pollen 5 fly 6 smell
READ & TALK An Amazing Plants Quiz 2 1 Plants produce food for animals to eat, and oxygen for them
to breathe. Animals also make their homes in or around plants.
Choose one of the plants from the Reader, and without 2 Animals pollinate flowers. 3 Because they can see some colors
saying its name, read out one fact about it and ask better than others. 3 1 oxygen 2 pollinate 3 nectar 4 colored
students to guess which plant it is. Read out more facts, 5 patterns 6 sweet 4 Bees like: yellow and blue, sweet smells;
one at a time, until students guess the correct plant. You Flies like: light colours, smells like meat; Birds like: red, no smell
can use a point scoring system, for example, five points Pages 38–39 1 1 clothes 2 chair 3 eraser 4 door 5 table 6 book 7 tire
after one fact, three points after two facts, etc. Students 8 medicine 2 1 true 2 false 3 true 4 true 5 false 6 false
can then do this in small groups or pairs. 3 Example answers Wood: chair, floor, table; Paper: book, poster;
Cotton: clothes, bag 4 1– 4: free answers
READ & TALK What Is in the Photo? Pages 40–41 1 1 smelliest 2 eats 3 tallest 4 smallest 5 roots 6 2,000
Using the photo on page 18 of the Reader, students list the 2 1 About every six years. 2 It has traps with very small hairs.
objects – those made of plant materials and then the others. 3 Six million. 4 On water. 3 1 The titan arum is a very smelly plant.
Then in pairs they can play a game where one student It smells like bad meat. 2 The coast redwood is a very tall plant. It can
grow to 110 meters tall. 3 The wolffia is a very small plant. It’s less
chooses an object in the photo and the other student has
than a millimeter long. 4 The Venus flytrap is an insect-eating plant.
to guess what it is. The first student can describe it, or the It eats insects. 4 Free answers
second student can ask questions. They can also do the Pages 42–43 1 1 airport 2 habitat 3 rainforest 4 roads 5 trees 6 crops
same activities with objects in the classroom. 7 pollution 2 1 When people build new roads, they cut down
Plant Parts plants. 2 There are lots of palm oil farms in the rainforest. 3 Pollution
puts chemicals into the soil. 4 Chemicals are bad for plants.
Using a bigger version of the chart on page 29 of the 3 1 Example answer They produce oxygen. 2 Example answer They are
Reader, students list as many examples as possible. They cut down so people can grow crops to sell. 4 1 free answers
can do research or limit it to plants that they know.

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