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    Bats The Truth NatGeo - Video Lesson

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    GENERAL ENGLISH · ENGLISH IN VIDEO · ADVANCED (C1-C2)

    BATS -
    THE
    TRUTH

    1 Warm up
    Bats! What do you think of when you hear this word? Write down the first five things you think
    of.
    •
    •
    •
    •
    •

    Look at what you wrote.


    1. How many things are positive?
    2. How many things are negative?

    2 Watch part I
    Watch the first part of "Why bats aren’t as scary as you think" (0:00 – 1:51) and decide if
    these sentences are true or false, according to the information in the video.

    1. People think that seeing just one bat means that there are thousands ready to attack them.
    2. All bats look more or less the same.
    3. Bats have both a positive and negative impact on our everyday lives.
    4. Bats can save farmers money.
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    ADVANCED (C1-C2)

    BATS - THE
    TRUTH

    Now match the beginning and ending of these phrases and find the meaning of the word in bold.

    1. a. ... can be detrimental to humans.


    Movies reinforce ...
    2. Bats that eat insects ... b. ... control pests.

    3. Insects like mosquitoes and earworms ... c. ... disperse seeds to regrow rainforests.

    4. Some types of bats feed on flowers, ... d. ... misconceptions about bats being dangerous.

    5. Bats that eat fruit ... e. ... pollinating lots of different types of plants.

    1. : creatures that are harmful to humans

    2. : to spread something over a wide area

    3. : harmful, having a negative effect

    4. : ideas that are based on incorrect information

    5. : moving pollen from one part of a plant to another part, or plant, so that
    seeds are produced

    Think of examples of these things:


    1. other pests that are detrimental to humans
    2. other creatures that pollinate plants and disperse seeds
    3. other animals that people have misconceptions about from movies

    3 Watch part 2

    Read the introduction to this part of the video (1:51 – 4:00) and answer the questions.

    So, bats are good and perhaps we haven’t been so great at giving them credit, but what made them the villains

    1. What do you think a villain is?


    2. What do you think is the topic of this part of the video?

    Watch and check your ideas.

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    Watch this part of the video again and write in the missing words from these sentences. The missing
    words have the same meaning as the words in brackets. The first letter is given.

    1. But vampires come from European (a group of people’s traditional stories and culture) f
    ...
    2. ... describing a (dead body) c that rises from the dead and feeds on human
    blood, not a bat.
    3. These (keen to take part in violence) b bats were foreign to the Spanish
    conquistadors.
    4. The story of Dracula took off quickly, reaching the stage in 1924 and onto (films and movies) the
    s s in 1931...

    What did you learn about these people from the video:

    Hernan Cortes Bram Stoker Dracula

    4 Watch part 3

    The third part of the video (4:00 – 6:27) is about the relationship between vampire bats and diseases.
    Before you watch, read the sentences from the video and match the words in bold with their
    meanings.

    1. I lead a group of researchers that studies disease transmission by bats.


    2. The two areas that I’m quite excited about are ... called transferable vaccines...
    3. ...there’s really a strong human component why that happens.
    4. The capturing of wildlife ... and deforestation are examples ...
    5. ... human encroachment on bats’ natural habitat....
    6. The species ... rely on pristine, intact tropical rainforests

    a. clean and untouched


    b. one part of a larger process or system
    c. substances that are put into the body to prevent disease in the future
    d. the act of gradually removing something from someone
    e. the destruction of trees in a large area, usually caused by human activity
    f. the spread of something from one individual or place to another

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    Now watch the final part of the video and answer these questions:

    • What is the purpose of Dr Daniel Streicker’s research?


    • How do bats come into contact with humans and what is the result?
    • What can we do to help bats?

    5 Language in context

    Choose the best meaning for these informal expressions in bold from the video, using the
    context to help you.

    1. Another area where bats catch a bad rap is the potential transmission of viruses.

    a. actively harm people


    b. get a negative reputation
    c. get sick

    2. (...) whether bats do have an unusual number of human infecting viruses is really an issue
    that’s still up for debate

    a. controversial
    b. totally unknown
    c. very clear

    3. But ultimately if you wanted to do more, that would be something called a transmissible
    vaccine... I’m hoping that we’ll get there with the bats, but it might be a decade or so.

    a. do more research
    b. locate more bats
    c. manage to find a solution

    4. Tell everyone, tell our friends, tell our family, how neat bats are and how important they really are.

    a. tidy and clean


    b. friendly and loving
    c. interesting and cool

    Can you think of any other contexts where you could use these expressions?

    6 Talking point

    Discuss these questions in pairs or small groups.

    1. Have you changed your mind about bats at all, through watching this video?
    2. What action could you take to help bats in your area?

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