C. Speaking Activities.
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A. Pre-listening task.
VI. Listening Activities.
V. Make up a summary of the text.
IV. Writing Activities.
B. Reading Comprehension.
- What makes bees ideal for studying?
- What helps to understand the genetic causes of the bee's social traits? Give examples.
- What is the essence of the waggle dance?
- What are two other “dances”?
- What information do they pass?
- What is the role of pheromones?
- How do bees understand which colony they belong to?
- What can the decoders of the honeybee genome say to us?
- What are genetic and mechanical similarities between people and bees?
- What can the bee tell us about ourselves?
III. Speaking Activities.
- The publication of a genome sequence used to be so exciting. Is it now destined to be dull? Express your opinion.
- Make some guesses at how the bee's social lifestyle has evolved from and in turn shaped its genome.
- Write your ideas about Karl von Frisch's remark “The life of bees is like a magic well. The more you draw from it, the more there is to draw.”
HONEYBEE LANGUAGE
National Geographic
- Listen to the text and guess the meaning of the following word – waggle.
B. After listening tasks.
- What is specific about the language of the honeybee?
- Which of two dances does a bee perform if the food source is nearby?
- What is the «waggle» dance?
Retell the text.
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