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What is a zoo?
Textbook Part 1, pp. 23–25
GoalKnow what a zoo is and how to behave there.
New words
zoo · hayvonot bog‘icare · parvarishcage, enclosure · qafas
Explanation
A zoo keeps animals from many countries. Keepers feed and care for them. Tashkent has a big zoo. There we do not feed the animals, put hands into enclosures, or shout.
Worked examples
From hot lands: elephant, giraffe, lion, zebra.
From cold lands: polar bear, penguin.
Class activity
“Guess the animal”: a child acts out an animal silently (elephant — arm as a trunk, giraffe — long neck). Others guess and say where it lives in the wild.
Practice
1
Who feeds the animals at the zoo?
zoo keepers
2
Name 2 things not allowed at the zoo.
feeding animals, putting hands in enclosures
3
Which animal has the longest neck?
the giraffe