2 Copycat Animals

Unit 2 VOCABULARY 1 1 Listen and read. Some animals can look like other animals or even like a plant! These copycats are trying to hide from or trick a hungry predator. They can look like another more dangerous animal or like another animal the predator doesn’t like to eat. This cheetah’s black spots act as camouflage. This way, the cheetah doesn’t frighten its prey when it’s time to hunt. This colorful frog has stripes on its skin. The bright colors tell hungry predators that the frog is poisonous. These butterflies are not the same species, but they resemble each other. The top one tastes bad. The other one copies its shape and colors, and tastes bad, too. This insect is as green as a leaf. It imitates the characteristics of color and shape of leaves to help it hide from predators. 2 Listen and repeat. a predator Do all predators hunt at night? a spot Cheetahs have black spots. camoufl age Do all animals in the rain forest use camoufl age? frighten Don’t frighten the birds! prey Some animals use their claws to catch prey. hunt How do lion cubs learn to hunt? a stripe The tiger has stripes. poisonous Some frogs are poisonous. an insect I want to study insects. imitate Look! That insect is imitating a leaf. It’s hard to see. a characteristic Bright colors are a characteristic of many poisonous animals. hide Many animals hide during the day. species How many species are there on Earth? resemble These two birds resemble each other a lot. copy Some animals copy characteristics of other animals.

SONG 1 Listen, read, and sing. It’s a Wild World It’s a wild world! It’s work to stay alive! Animals do amazing things in order to survive. An insect that looks like a leaf copies plants to get relief. Predators are everywhere, and looking for a feast! It’s a wild world! It’s work to stay alive! Animals do amazing things in order to survive. Camouflage and imitate. Resemble and escape! Animals hide in front of our eyes, every day. The hunter and the hunted, predator and prey, must hunt or hide to stay alive, each and every day. A pretty frog can be as deadly as a snake. Its stripes tell its enemies “You’d better stay away!” It’s a wild world! It’s work to stay alive! Animals do amazing things in order to survive. It’s a wild world!

GRAMMAR 1 Comparisons with as . . . as That katydid is as green as the leaf it sits on. That butterfly is not as pretty as the blue one. Poison dart frogs are as dangerous as some snakes.

VOCABULARY 2 1 Listen and repeat. confuse The butterfl y fi sh confuses its predators with a spot like an eye. attack Jaguars attack their prey. defend The cobra defends itself. avoid The mongoose avoids its bite. escape Deer escape predators by running away. 2 Listen. Stick True or False. 1. The butterfly fish has a spot on its tail that looks like an eye. This can confuse predators. 2. The insect called a katydid is the same color as the leaf it eats. In this way, it avoids predators. 3. A deer will often attack a jaguar. 4. A sea turtle swims so slowly that it almost never escapes its predators. 5. A lion has sharp claws it can use to defend itself. GRAMMAR 2 Tag questions The jaguar is dangerous, isn’t it? That frog wasn’t poisonous, was it? Those snakes are scary, aren’t they? The cat escaped the dog, didn’t it? This insect looks like a stick, doesn’t it? The dogs were loud, weren’t they? Giraffes don’t eat meat, do they? The cats weren’t friendly, were they? 2 Play a game. Cut out the question tags in the back of the book. Glue nine to complete your game. Listen. Which tag completes the sentence? If you have it, draw an X on the square. Jaguars have dots, ? Lions don’t have stripes, ? The deer escaped, ? That insect looks like a leaf, ? That snake is poisonous, ? Those butterflies are beautiful, ? The jaguar didn’t catch the deer, ? Your pet frogs weren’t poisonous, ? An elephant doesn’t use camoufl age, ?

READING 1 Listen and read. COPY cats The leafy sea dragon is a weird but beautiful copycat. From its name you would think it imitates a dragon, wouldn’t you? But no, it only gets that name from its funny shape. The leafy sea dragon imitates what is around it. It lives in seaweed, and so its body looks like a seaweed leaf. The sea dragon imitates the shape and color of seaweed, and it even looks like floating seaweed when it moves. It doesn’t use the parts of its body that look like a leaf to swim. It uses fins that are transparent, so it’s hard to see them move. The leafy sea dragon does not only look like a copycat. It also dances like a copycat. A male and female sea dragon will copy each other’s movements for hours! The mimic octopus is the only sea creature that can imitate many different species. It not only changes its color, it also changes its shape. It has arms as thick as pencils. When it spreads them wide, they look like the spines of a lionfish. It hides some of its arms in the sand but leaves two arms out. Then with its white and brown stripes and the two arms, it looks like a sea snake! It can also pull its arms together and swim on the sea floor, so to a predator, it looks like a poisonous flatfish! Like other octopuses, the mimic octopus has eight arms and three hearts. It swims by shooting out jets of water through a siphon. It also has a large brain for its size. That’s one smart octopus!