Work in pairs and prepare a conversation
about a problem at your school. Imagine you
are planning a protest. Answer the questions.
1 What is the problem?
2 What are the consequences?
3 How do the students and teachers feel
about this problem?
4 What do you want to achieve?
5 What actions could you take?
2) About what creatures should you think?
3) Who might have a built-in compass?
4) What is a big magnet itself?
5) What bird does not migrate but is great at finding its way home?
6) How did the idea of an animal compass appear?
7) Who can recognize star patterns?
8) What insects seem to have a special sence of direction?
9) When the pigeons could no longer find their way?
10) Can the birds keep on course even under cloudy skies?
11) When did people discover an idea of a built-in compass?
12) How often do birds migrate?
Who can animals find the way they need?
How do birds find a way to their winter home?
What do pigeons use the sun for?
Which animals from this text know the right direction to go home?
Which bird can't remember its way home?
Where did the idea of compass come from?
How long have scientists been seeking to understand the mystery of this "sixth sense" of direction?
When did people invent the compass?
How people started to use the compass?
How do you understand words ["sixth sense" of direction]?
Are you agree with idea that animals have compasses in them?