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UNIT 1

Life in a Day
Complete the outline as you read A Day on Planet Earth.
Film director
Who did what?

and his

produced a

movie called Life in a Day.

On a single day

When?

in

People in

countries uploaded
videos to YouTubemore than

How many?

hours.

What may be
What did Macdonald understand?

Questions the team asked:

What do you

to another.

Some answers they got:

most?

and

and

a pet

imaginary
What do you

guns,

Why was the film possible?

to one person may be

cars
and a

and real-life
are going to eat their
, the loss of

Because of the way people are all


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UNIT 2

Learning Experiences
Complete the diagram as you read Global Education.

The Cia Cia language is in


__________________ of
disappearing.

Hangul is an
__________________
from ______________.

GLOBAL
EDUCATION

SAVING AN
INDONESIAN
__________________

In 2009, the Cia Cia tribe


used _____________ to
______________their
language.

Juan Martinez went on


a ____________ trip to the
_______________.

PROGRAM HELPS INNERCITY KIDS GET


______________________

TRAVELING
____________________
___________________

It helped him _________


the _________________
differently.

Martinez connects kids to


the _________________to
_______________their lives.

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mobile _______________

Mongolia

______________
schools

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UNIT 3

Family Ties
Complete the time line as you read Our Family Journey.
now

years ago

25,000 years ago

years ago

40,000 years ago

Remains show that humans reached

in

People migrated from

America by a

Humans

animals on the

Humans used hunting

years ago

People followed the

years ago

People made stone

50,000 years ago

The first large group of

60,000 years ago

The common male

years ago

to

America.

bridge.

of a French

to hunt

in Siberia.

superhighway across central

and cooked fish in

moved out of

of every living

Omo I and Omo II are the oldest known fossil

lived in Africa.

of modern

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UNIT 4

The Trouble with Trash


Complete the diagram as you read Garbage Island.

1 What it is

3 Why its dangerous


Sea

Its a collection of
of bits of

and die.

and other

objects.

Much of the

may die if they eat plastic


that hold six-packs of soda.

comes

from everyday objects that

people

near the ocean surface

, such

as

eat plastic

sunlight from reaching


deeper water; lack of

bags and

and

bottles.

2 How it got there


An

bring objects together and cause them

of

from

New objects

Environmental engineer

the spinning
, and the island

bigger.

ocean

movement stops

made

bottles to

people about the

The

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named David

de Rothschild is sailing a
of

around in a

to

the

4 What people are doing

Pacific Ocean

giant

kills

hopes to

is building a

that

pieces of

. He

it to

garbage in the Pacific.

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UNIT 5

The World in Our Kitchen


Complete the outline as you read From Farm to Fork.

The Environmental Argument


consume much less

Locally produced foods

use less

use fewer oil-based

for transport.
and

for packaging.
and

The Carnegie Mellon University Study


What you

may be more

than where the

production requires a lot of


Cows also produce

,a

Not eating

, and

gas.

is probably

only

comes from.

for the global

than eating

foods.

The Health Argument


Locavores feel that local food is
produced by

and

than food

companies.

are

spend less

because they dont


in

so far.
and

Local products

need fewer
taste

and other
: Fruits and vegetables can lose

.
and

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UNIT 6

Future Living
Complete the diagram as you read How Will We Live?

SMART

SMART HOUSES

APPLIANCES

WILL HAVE

WILL

_________ with digital


____________ : can be
clear like ________,
or display colors and
____________.

Your _________
will tell you when to
______ more
_____________.

_____________
with each
otherand
with ________.

YOUR FUTURE

Your ________ will


tell when your
food is __________
and ready to
______.

____________
will suggest
____________.

show feelings with


their faces:
____________ and
____________.

make ________
contact and
_____________.

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LIFE

ambient
intelligence to set
the __________ and
darken and lighten
the _________.

SOCIABLE
ROBOTS WILL

take care of
__________ and
the____________.

do work around
the house:
___________ and
_____________.

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UNIT 7

Exploration and Discovery


Complete sentences ag below as you read In Stanleys Footsteps. Then write the letters of the events in the correct order
on the map.

DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF
THE CONGO

Lake
Victoria

Lake Tanganyika

INDIAN OCEAN

TANZANIA

a. Its very hot as they climb the

Mountains and then very windy that night.

b. Crowds of people dance and clap to greet them as they arrive in


c. They eat some insect

, and one team member gets very

d. The team kayaks on a river to a swamp filled with

and

e. Now they are in

of dead animals cover the ground.

country, and the

f. The expedition is about


g. Its so

miles from the start and has more than

miles to go.

in the morning in the misty mountains that the team cant start a

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UNIT 8

Musicians with a Message


As you read Music for Change, complete the Venn diagram to compare Jason Mraz, Zinhle Thabethe, and Arn-Chorn
Pond. How are they alike? How are they different?

Jason Mraz

Zinhle Thabethe

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Arn Chorn-Pond

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UNIT 9

Behavior
Complete the reporters notes as you read Meet the Dog Whisperer.

Cesar Millan: an animal

helps

and dog

deal with their

He says the biggest mistake people make with dogs: We

dogs.

Why people like certain kinds of dogs:


A pit bull represents

A small poodle is

, and

and

Milans approach to helping dog owners:


If you dont tell a
You dont

what to

, it will

you what to

a dog if it would like to

you put on the

and

What his parents think about his work:


They wanted him to become a

, like a

or

.
They dont understand why people pay him for

What he thinks dogs teach us:


to

Millan believes

in the
(dogs will never
behave better than

to you)
.

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UNIT 10

The Power of Image


Complete the information about the photographs as you read How Photography Connects Us.

Photographer

Jonas Bendiksen

What the photo shows

Why it is a powerful image

a Dharavi street coming

It shows the
in

for a Hindu
Mumbai, India

of a
in a slum area.

his two

Elmar Rubio

and

throwing

It

into the strong wind

their

a special
in time.

of an approaching
villagers carrying a silverback

Brent Stirton

named Senkwekwe,

The photo creates a


narrative to make people aware of the
facing wild gorillas.

who was illegally


a thresher

Brian Skerry

caught in a
net

The picture shows how millions of


sharks are

each year,
.

mostly for their


a

Randy Olson

ready for a
young Mbuti

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Mbuti boy getting


, and a

The photo looks something like


of a

Degass bronze
ballet

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