My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book

Breaking News English

HOME  |  HELP MY SITE  |  000s MORE FREE LESSONS
 
My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book
 
 

HOW TO PLAY:
 1. Click this link to listen.

 2. Listen and choose the correct word in the grey box with the "up / down" arrows.

 3. Check your answers.

 4. Press the "refresh" button on your browser to play again.

Good Luck.
Rats that are the of sheep might be a good movie story. However, scientists from the University of Leicester in England say that in the , there could be giant rats on the Earth. They could be as big as sheep and weigh up to 80kg. Rats are spreading over the Earth. They are now the strongest animals on many small . One of the for this is that they travel on ships and relocate to areas that never had rats before. Another reason is that many larger animals are becoming , so there are fewer animals that might kill rats. Researcher Dr Jan Zalasiewicz said: "Given time, rats could probably grow to be…the world's largest ."

Dr Zalasiewicz said rats are one of the best of a species that we have spread around the world, and have adapted to many of the new . He said: "There will be future thin rats, future fat rats, slow and heavy rats, fast and rats, probably future aquatic rats - the goes on." After the dinosaurs died out, many small animals slowly grew bigger and . The thing could happen with rats if there are no animals left that hunt and kill them. Dr Zalasiewicz also believes that "-rats" will start killing other species to make them extinct. This will have a big on food chains. He did not say what humans would do about giant rats running around .

 


Back to the lesson page



MORE ACTIVITIES:
QUIZZES MORE QUIZZES PRINT READING SEAN'S OTHER SITES

Sentence Jumble

No letters

Gap-Fill

Word Order

Word Pairs

Grammar Gap-Fill

Articles Gap-Fill

Prepositions Gap-Fill

Consonants

Vowels

Missing Letters

Initals Only

Text Jumble - 15

Text Jumble - 24

No Spaces

 

26-Page Handout

Two-Page Mini-Lesson

 

LISTEN

MP3

Discussion Questions

 

DICTATION

10 Sentences

Spelling (12 Words)

Speed Reading
Activities

 

650+ Discussions (13,000+ Qs)

One-Minute Listening Lessons

Famous People Lessons

Holiday & Anniversary Lessons

Sean Banville on Twitter

My Blog

Free ESL Materials

Business English Materials

Lessons On All American Presidents

Lessons On Movies - Classic & New



Copyright © 2004-2014 by Sean Banville | Links | About | Privacy Policy