Bats Aren’t Blind
Interesting Facts in Easy English
Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- accurate: fully correct
- simile: a figure of speech for comparing one thing to another, often with “like” or “as”
- mammal: a warm-blood animal that nurses its young
- misleading: causing someone to think something that is not true
- echo: a sound that occurs due to a reflection of sound waves off an object
- prey: a living thing that is hunted and used for food
- nocturnal: active at night; at rest during daylight
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Bats Aren’t Blind
Comprehension Questions
- What type of animal is a bat?
- What is echolocation?
- Identify three myths about bats that are busted in this report.
Discussion Questions: Only a small amount of people are bitten by bats each year, while thousands of people are bitten by dogs. Why are so many people terrified of bats?
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9 comments
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MUHAMMAD SYADIQ BIN MOHD SAMRI says:
1. Bat is a flying mammal species.
2. Echolocation is a built-in sonar system that some animals have like Bat. Bat delivers a high-pitched call and wait for the echo. The echo tells the bats how far they are away from an object.
3. Three myths fact about bat is they are blind. Bats are nocturnal too, but not all species are nocturnal. Lastly, bats are blood suckers too.
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MUHAMMAD HARIS BIN ZULKIFFLI says:
1.flying mammal
2. a sonar system.bats deliver a high-pitched call and wait for an echo. The echo tells the bats how far away they are from an object.
3. blind, nocturnal, Only a few of more than 1000 species of bats feed on
blood
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MUHAMMAD DANISH BIN ROZI says:
1. A bat is a flying mammal.
2.Echolocation is a built-in sonar system that some animals have like Bat.They deliver a high-pitched call and wait for an echo. The echo tells the bats how far away they are from an object.
3. Three myths about bats is that bats are blind. All bats are nocturnal. All bats are blood suckers too. -
Claudius Empam Anak Michael says:
1. Bat is a flying mammal species.
2. Echolocation is a built-in sonar system that some animals have like Bat. Bat delivers a high-pitched call and wait for the echo. The echo tells the bats how far they are away from an object.
3. Three myths fact about bat is they are blind. Bats are nocturnal too, but not all species are nocturnal. Lastly, bats are blood suckers too.
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