5-speed listening (Chicken and Egg - Level 4)

Scientists say the egg came before the chicken


Slowest

Slower

Medium

Faster

Fastest


Try  Chicken and Egg - Level 5  |  Chicken and Egg - Level 6

MY e-BOOK
ESL resource book with copiable worksheets and handouts - 1,000 Ideas and Activities for Language Teachers / English teachers
See a sample

This useful resource has hundreds of ideas, activity templates, reproducible activities for …

  • warm-ups
  • pre-reading and listening
  • while-reading and listening
  • post-reading and listening
  • using headlines
  • working with words
  • moving from text to speech
  • role plays,
  • task-based activities
  • discussions and debates
and a whole lot more.




More Listening

20 Questions  |  Spelling  |  Dictation


READING:

Scientists may have solved one of life's greatest mysteries - the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. This has baffled us for centuries. However, researchers in Switzerland believe the egg came first. The scientists studied a tiny marine organism that dates back a billion years. They found it can form cellular structures that are similar to animal embryos. Thus, a prehistoric chicken did not need to lay an egg.

The organism was first discovered in 2017. It has offered many insights into ancient life. A researcher said it "allows us to go back in time a billion years". The genetics behind egg fertilization and embryo development were present before animal life existed. This means nature made eggs before chickens arrived. A simpler answer to the chicken and egg problem is that chickens appeared 10,000 years ago, whereas eggs arrived millions of years ago.

Higher Levels

Try higher levels. The listening is a little longer, with more vocabulary.

Chicken and Egg - Level 5  |  Chicken and Egg - Level 6

All Levels

This page has all the levels, listening and reading for this lesson.

← Back to the the chicken or the egg  lesson.

Online Activities

Help Support This Web Site

  • Please consider helping Breaking News English.com

Sean Banville's Book

Thank You