🐬 Amazing Animal Intelligence: What Animals Can Teach Us
In this B1-level reading lesson, learners will explore remarkable examples of animal intelligence from around the world. The text covers tool-using crows, emotionally complex elephants, mathematical honeybees, and dolphins that call each other by name. Students will learn vocabulary related to nature, science, and cognition while reflecting on the relationship between humans and the animal kingdom.
Lesson Plan
- Questions about animal intelligence
- Discussion about animal emotions
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Present perfect for discoveries: Scientists have found, Research has shown
- Relative clauses: animals that use tools, species which display
- Comparatives: smarter than, more complex than, as intelligent as
