A In your copy, go investigate. 1. What is the aim of this activity? 2. List the equipment needed for this activity.


3. How much space should you leave at the top of the jar after the last layer of soil? Why should you do this?


4. Why should you dig for the earthworms gently? 5. At what point should you ask an adult for help with this activity? Why? 6. For how long should you leave the wormery?


B In your copy, give your opinion. 1. Why should you cover your work surface? 2. What do you think the fruit and vegetables are added for? 3. Why do you think you should use layers of soil and light-coloured sand? 4. What conditions do you think earthworms prefer? How do you know this? 5. How do earthworms help plants to grow? 6. Would you like to try this activity? Why/Why not?


C Vocabulary 1. Underline the part of each sentence that has been changed from the text. (a) Take out your wormery and see what has happened. (b) Keep layering the sand and earth like this. (c) Leave the wormery in a cold, gloomy place. (d) Cover your work space with recycled newspaper. (e) Add small stones to the base of the jar. (f) Aim: To make a home for earthworms. (g) Carefully put the earthworms in the wormery.


2. In your copy, rewrite the sentences above in the order in which they occur in the text and insert the missing synonyms from the text.


D Cloze procedure: ‘Amazing Earthworms’. Fill in the blanks. Earthworms are


important part of a garden’s ecosystem. They keep the


which helps plants to grow. They do this by burrowing deep plant matter from the surface


damp, cool, dark conditions. They have no lungs and so may live up to eight them


thirty-nine years and decided that life on the topsoil and subsoil. fertilised,


the soil, mixing decaying prefer


through their skin. They without their help in fertilising soil and reducing plant waste. Earthworms


, although one to two is more common. Charles Darwin studied would not be possible amazing!


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