MYP Language Acquisition Programme

ENGLISH - 6th Grade 2017

Name: ______________________________________________________________________ Date: June, 2017

UNIT: "What do we learn through winning and losing?

Statement of Inquiry: "Fiction and non-fiction texts, and their respective language conventions, help us understand different perspectives on winning and losing, helping us develop empathy."

VOCABULARY LIST

conservationist

destruction

extinct

habitat

ornithology

predator

environment

estimate

factor

statistics

logger

grub

preyed on

pests

Wildlife Refuge

one-of-a-kind

larvae

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Practice 1.1

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Practice 1.2

Fill in the gaps in the following sentences, using words from the word bank. There are

extra words you do not need.

1. _____________________ cut down trees in the Pearl River forest during the early 1800s.

2. After the forest was ______________________, the animals had nowhere to live. Their

homes had been ruined.

3. Dinosaurs have become _____________________. They are all gone now.

4. The cat is a _______________________ that likes to attack birds.

5. Many ____________________ caused the birds to move to a new area. One reason was the

weather.

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extinct factors statistics environment

loggers destroyed predator grubs