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Type
Explainer
Level
1 / A1
Published
Title
What Is a Camel?
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Lesson Content

Look First, Words You Need, Read and Listen

Understanding: Understand It

Chunks: Place, Repeat

Use It

Answers

What Is a Camel?

Level 1 Explainer

Start Here

Look First

A graphic illustration shows a man in a light blue tunic walking and holding a rope connected to a dromedary camel carrying baskets and bundles on its hump across a desert. Sand dunes fill the background, a large yellow sun is in the light blue sky, and a few plateaus are on the horizon on the left.
  1. What can you see in the picture?
  2. What is on the camel's back?
  3. What are the camel and the man doing?

Before You Read

Words You Need

Learn

Read and Listen

Play the audio while you read, or listen after you read.

A camel is a large animal that can live in hot, dry places. Many camels live in deserts in Africa and Asia. They have long legs, wide feet, and one or two humps on their backs.

A camel’s wide feet help it walk on soft sand. Its long legs keep its body away from the hot land. A camel can also close its nose when sand is in the air.

Camels can live for a long time without drinking water. They do not keep water in their humps. The humps have fat. This fat helps the camel when food is hard to find.

People have used camels for many years. Camels can carry people and heavy things across the desert. Some people also get milk from them. Camels are strong animals, and their bodies help them live in dry places.

Quick Check

Understand It

  1. Many camels live in hot, dry places.
  2. A camel keeps water in its hump.
  3. A camel’s wide feet help it walk on water.
  4. What is inside a camel’s hump?
  5. What can camels carry?

Build

Chunks

Place

  1. The hump is

  2. The long legs are

  3. The wide feet are

  4. The nose is

at the front of its head on the sand on its back under its body
Wide crop of a camel showing its hump on its back, long legs under its body, wide feet on the sand, and nose at the front of its head.

Repeat

Listen and Repeat. Hide the text and try again.

on its back
The camel has a hump on its back.
under its body
The camel has long legs under its body.
on the sand
Its wide feet are on the sand.
at the front of its head
Its nose is at the front of its head.

Now Try

Use It

Talk or write. Use the language from this lesson.

Supported output: A camel is...
Supported output: Its wide feet help it...
Supported output: People use camels to...
Recycle language: What do you usually carry on your back?
Extend topic: Are there camels in your country?
Extend topic: Have you ever seen a desert?
Extend topic: Do you think camels are beautiful or strange?
Extend topic: Would you like to ride a camel? Why or why not?

Answers What Is a Camel? / Level 1

Understand It:

  1. True
  2. False
  3. False
  4. fat
  5. people

Chunks: Place:

  1. The hump is on its back.
  2. The long legs are under its body.
  3. The wide feet are on the sand.
  4. The nose is at the front of its head.

KEEP GOING

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