• Aim: to learn more about tropical rainforests in English.

• Topics: 1. rainforest animals 2. rainforest people 3. rainforest’s important

• The sources: http://kids.mongabay.com/ • The amount of reading: 3 pages• The time of reading: 2 hours

• The United States has 81 species of frogs, while Madagascar which is smaller than Texas, may have 300 species.

• Europe has 321 butterfly species, while a park in the rainforest of Peru (Manu National Park) has 1300 species.

Habitats: Indonesia, islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok.Food: leaves, fruit, flowers, and insect larvae.Appearance: black and a yellowish orange.

• Habitats: island of Madagascar • Food: insects and plant• Appearance: black, brown or reddish wool.

• Habitats: South and Central America• Food: small monkeys, snakes, rodents and birds.• Appearance: the ocelot is a wild cat a bit larger a

giant housecat.

• While people still use on the forest for traditional hunting and gathering, most Amerindians, as these people are called, grow crops (like bananas, manioc, and rice).

Rainforests are important to the global ecosystem. Rainforests: •provide a home to many plants and animals; •help stabilize the world's climate; •are a source for medicines and foods; •support tribal people; •and are an interesting place to visit

• To provide-обеспечить• Gathering-сбор• Crops-урожай• Support-поддержка• Tribal-родовой • Rodents-грызуны• Insect larvae-личинки

насекомых• Parenting-воспитание • Native-родной• A nest-гнездо • Communal- коммунальный

• Habitats- место обитания• Unlike-непохожий• Canopy- навес• Species- разновидности• Appearance- внешность, вид• Reddish-красноватый• Yellowish-желтоватый