Mice...

1.-  Before reading the text, teacher has to introduce it with the names of different kind of mice:

• Pygmy mouse
• Jumping mouse
• House mouse
• Harvest mouse
• Dormouse

After that, every two pupils have to predicting the several characteristic that define these mice.

2.-  During the reading, they have to circle the features that they were right.

3.- They have to complete the following gaps:

• The pygmy mouse is the ______________ mouse. It weighs ___________ __________ and is four and a half centimetres long and has a tail three centimetres long.

• The jumping mouse has long back feet. The Woodland jumping mouse can __________ three metres. Jumping mice sleep for six to nine _____________ in the year. 

• The house mouse lives with _____________. It eats anything it can find. It can eat soap and ____________ and electricity cables. They are popular _______________.

• The harvest mouse ______________ climb very well. It ______________ grass and corn and holds on with its tail. It makes its nest at the top of stalks of grass and corn.

• Small dormice are six ____________________ ____________ and weigh fifteen grams, and big ones are nineteen centimetres long and weigh two hundred grams. They ____________ for seven months every year. They live for about ___________ _______.

AGE.-  9-11 years