worksheely (repara

8/7/2019 Worksheely (Repara

1/14

Pre-Reading

1. Look at the pictures and:

a. identify the products;

A - Royal Jelly Honey

B - Bees Wax

C - Royal Jelly Pills

D - Royal Jelly.

b.. find out what they have in common.

You are going to read a story called Royal Jelly. First, let's learn something

about bees and their product.

The Hive

2. The honey bee hive is a very complex social structure with

three different types of bees:

The queen bee (QB), worker bees (WB) and drones (D).

What is the function of each of these types?

a. feed the larvae and clean the hive [WB]

b. mother of the hive [QB]

c. fully reproductive female [QB]

d. male of the hive [D]


2/14

e. infertile females [WB]

f. feed the larvae [WB]

g. lay the eggs [QB]

h. mate with the queen [D]

i. defend the hive [D]

Royal Jelly

Royal jelly is an extremely nutritious, thick, milky-white creamy liquidsecreted by the

hypo pharyngeal glands of the worker bees. Queen bees live exclusively on

royal jelly and

it accounts for their incredible size, fertility and longevity. Although it is the

food of the

queen bees, it is said it is also beneficial for both men and women.

3. Complete each benefit with a word:

1. system 3. levels 5. time 7. appetite 9 .youth

2. diseases 4. children 6. infections 8. tissue 10. Moodiness

Among other benefits royal jelly is said to:

a. help maintain health, beauty, and [9]

b. protect against [2]

c. increase resistance to [10]

d. increase endurance and energy [1]

e. accelerate the formation of bone [8]

f. help heal wounds in half the [6]

g. alleviate anxiety and [7]

h. help normalize the reproductive [4]


3/14

i. stimulate growth of newborn [3]

j. increase [5]

Natural products like royal jelly are being used more and more in so-called

alternativeMedicine, which promotes natural healing rather than chemical treatments

and medicines

4. How much do you know about alternative medicine?

Match the therapies with their

Definitions:


4/14

1-B 2-A 3-E 4-G 5-C 6-F 7-D

While-Reading

Part 1

1. Match the words taken from the text with their meaning,

according to the context:

motionless (line 3) a. - 6. without moving

translucent (line 5) b. - 4. transparent


5/14

weeny bit (line 16) c. - 10. little bit.

pinched (line 19) d. - 1. pale and thin

squinting (line 23) e. - 5. looking

ounce (line 24) f. - 2. unit of measure (28,349g).

limply (line 36) g. - 9. without energy.

cot (line 51) h. - 3. baby bed

idly (line 66) i. - 7. lazily

apiary (line 73) j. - 8. a group of beehives

2. Answer the following questions about the first scene of

the story:

a. Where does the action take place?

b. How many characters are there?

c. Who are they?

d. Describe them using the words from the text.

e. How would you describe the atmosphere in the house?

- The atmosphere in her home was in despair because the baby did not

want to eat

f. What's the problem with the baby?

-The issue of the baby and not wanting to eat to lose weight and be quite

g. Did the doctors find anything wrong with her?

- Yes the doctors told them not to worry for them not to look at anything

wrong with the baby

h. How does each parent react to the baby's problem?


6/14

3. The story is a third-person narrative told by an omniscient

narrator. Is this sentence true or false? Explain your answer.

4. Write a paragraph summarizing this part of the text and give

it a suitable title.

Part II

1. Use your dictionary to look up the meanings of the words, in

3

.

Complete the table with information about Albert's life.


7/14

12 years - built the first hive.

14 years - has had five hives leaning against the wall of the backyard of his

father.

18 - Rent a hectare to establish your own business

20 years -

29 years - was still in the same place, but had six acres of land instead of one,

two hundred and forty well-stocked, urticaria, and a small house he built.

4. Choose the sentences in the text that show

a. Albert's strange sympathy with bees

Instead, the bees seem to enjoy being with him. They never tried to fly,

and to get rid of them would have to brush them off gently with your fingers.

b. He has always been successful in the bees business.

When he was eighteen, he had rented an acre of grass in the rough andhas no intention of establishing their own business. Now eleven years later, he

was still in the same place, but he had six acres of land instead of one, two

hundred and forty well-stocked, urticaria, and a small house he built, mostly with

his own hands

g . He had been married for 9 years without children

He had married at the age of twenty and that, besides the fact that she

had taken more than nine years to receive a child also had been a success.

5. Answer the following questions about the second part of the

story:

a. What does the production of royal jelly by bees have in

common with human beings?

b. Are all bee larvae fed on the same amount of royal jelly?


8/14

c. Why is royal jelly a substance of incredible nourishing power?

d. What do you think the father's idea may be?

-I think it might be quite good.

6. Write a paragraph summarizing this part of the text and give

it a suitable title.

Title - Albert and the bees

-This part is talking about the life of albert and the idea he had.

Part III

1. Use your dictionary to find the meanings of the words, in

this context:

2. Answer the following questions about the third part of thestory:


9/14

a. What happens when the father starts feeding the baby?

-So the father begins to feed the baby once she ate everything withoutrefuse.

b. What do you think may have happened to cause such a

change?

-I think royal jelly was pretty good so baby just want to eat everything.

c. Why does the father insist on sharing the feeding of the baby?

d. How does the mother react to the change in her baby? Take

sentences from the text to show her reaction.

e. Does her reaction change when she realizes he has put

something in the baby's milk? How?

f. What do you think he has put in the milk?

g. What do you think will happen now? Explain why.

-I think Mabel will be very upset and could never even talk to albert for what

he put in milk may cause severe reactions to drinking.


10/14

3. Write a paragraph summarizing this part of the text and

give it a suitable title.

Part IV

1. Match the words taken from the text with their opposite,

according to the context:

Harmless (line 366) a. - 4. dangerous .

Precious (line 369) b. - 1. worthless .

actual (line 391) c. - 2. Unreal

forbid (line 417) d. - 6. allow

horrid (line 418) e. - 3. pleasant

marvellous (line 420) f. - 5. terrible

.

2. Complete the following text about bees from the

information given by Albert:


11/14

3. Answer the following questions about the second part of

the story:

a. Albert and Mabel represent two different perspectives about the

use of natural products in healthy human beings. What are

they?

-Albert believes the results of natural products because they are healthy and

are good for health irrespective of age.

Ja to mabel not have the same opinion to think that a small tau drink anyfood other than milk may be bad.

b. What is your opinion about it?

- My view and the same as that mabel a newborn baby can not eat food that

is not known if evil is good because they have to drink milk so they can make

defenses.

c. Read Albert's physical description. What does it suggest? Takewords from the description to support your answer.

-My opinion is the same as that of Mabel as it is a newborn baby and the

body has no power strengthened to eat things I do not know if they are good

for the health of babies

d. Do you think the father will continue giving royal jelly to the

baby even after the mother's fear about feeding it to babies?



Part V

1. Match the words taken from the text with their meaning, in

this context:


12/14

A 10

B 5

C 7

D 9

E 14

F 3

G 1

H 2

I 13J 8

K 12

L 4

M 6

N 11

2. Answer the following questions about the last part of thestory:


13/14

a. What incredible change can we see in the baby's attitude to

feeding?

b. There is also a change in the mother's feelings about the

baby's appetite.Explain the change.

c. How was the baby changing physically?

-The baby I get the legs and arms quite skinny and the fat body enough,

like a bee.

d. What does this description suggest?

-Suggests that if the baby was to look like a bee.

e. Can we consider the father's behavior a little obsessive?

Explain.

f. Had he taken royal jelly himself? Why?

g. What can we conclude from the physical description of

father and daughter?




14/14

AFTER-READING

1. Order the following sentences to build a summary of the

story. You can start with the sentence:

This is a simple story and concerns the Taylor family: Albert, Mabel, and their

newborn

baby daughter..

2. Imagine how the story would go on.

3. Write your own opinion about the whole story in what

concerns to the characters and their attitudes towards the main

action. Dont forget to mention the things you liked most and

the things you found odd.

4. Now use your creativity. You can make a cartoon about the

story; you can write a poem on it; you can use your imagination

to do anything.

worksheely (repara

Documents