Lesson 19: The Zoo Is Open!A Zoo Plan
[00:08.10]DANNY:Tomorrow's Staurday.We don't have school
[00:13.84]Let's go somewhere tomorrow.
[00:17.71]BRIAN:That would be fun!But where shall we go?
[00:22.36]JENNY:What about the zoo?It has been closed all winter.
[00:28.92]Now it's spring and the zoo is open.Let's go there.
[00:36.18]DANNY:I love the zoo! It has all kinds of animals.
[00:42.74]JENNY:It will be sunny tomorrow.
[00:46.81]We'll need our caps to protect us from the sun.
[00:52.69]BRIAN:We'll need snacks,too.
[00:56.03]Let's take some juice and some fruit.
[01:00.00]I will bring them in my backpack.I will take my backpack,too.
[01:06.77]I will carry pop and donuts.Zoos Protect Animals
[01:15.73]Years ago,many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages.
[01:23.49]Small cages made it easy for people to see the animals,
[01:30.25]but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live.
[01:37.80]Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages.
[01:44.33]The cages are very big and open.
[01:50.11]They usually have plants and a little lake.
[01:55.57]The cages look like the animals'habitats.
[02:01.13]Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals.
[02:06.90]They protect animals in the zoo and they protect animals in the wild.
[02:14.56]How do they do this? Zoos teach people how animals live in the wild.
[02:23.12]Zoos want people to help protect the animals' wild habitats.
[02:30.86]Why should we protect animals'wild habitats?
[02:36.19]Many plants and animals are going extinct.
[02:41.85]"Extinct" means that every one of a kind of plant or animal has died.
[02:50.81]The dodo is an extinct bird.
[02:55.78]There are no dodos anymore in the world.
[03:01.94]Scientists saythat seventy-four different kinds of living things
[03:10.30]go extinct every day!
[03:14.98]Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.
[03:22.63]A "habitat"is a place where an animal lives in nature.
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