Oranges
Everybody
loves oranges. They are sweet and juicy. They are in sections
so it is easy to eat them. Some oranges do not any seeds. Some
have a thick skin and some have a thin skin.
The orange tree is beautiful. It has a lot of shiny
green leaves. The small white flowers smell very sweet. An orange tree has
flowers and fruit at the same time.
There were orange trees twenty million years ago. The
oranges were very small, not like the ones today. The orange tree probably came
from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges grow there
today. The Chinese started to raise orange trees around
2400 B.C. Chinese art has lovely old pictures of oranges and orange
trees.
Farmers in other parts of Asia and the Middle East
learned to raise oranges from the Chinese. Then they taught Europeans. The
Spanish planted orange trees in the New World (North and South America). They
took them to Florida first. Oranges are a very important crop in Florida to
day.
"Orange" is both a fruit and a
color. The color of oranges is so beautiful that in English we use the name of
the fruit for the color.
Photo credit: Oranges
A Vocabulary
Around wild sections lovely
Skin oranges raise smell
Seeds shiny thin sweet
1. Chinese started to ________________________ orange trees _______________ 2400 B.C.
2. They are ___________________________ and juicy.
3. Some have a thick ______________________ and some have a __________________ skin.
4. Many different kinds of ____________________ oranges grow there today.
5. They are in ______________________ so it is easy to eat them.
6. Chinese art has ____________________ old pictures of oranges and orange trees.
7. Some oranges do not have any _____________________.
8. It has a lot of _______________________ green leaves.
B Vocabulary (new context)
orange lovely sweet wild
sections raise shines leaves
seeds around thin skin
1. Japanese ______________________ fish on farms in the sea.
2. The Syrians made ___________________ picture of date palms on stone buildings.
3. Plants grow from _____________________.
4. A bird has feathers on its _______________________. A camel has hair.
5. The polar bear and hippo are ____________________ animals.
6. There are there ______________________ of the beginning class.
7. The sun _______________________ every day in the desert.
8. Dates and oranges are _______________________.
9. Carlos is fat. Pablo is ________________________.
10. People started eating dates __________________7,000 years ago.
C Vocabulary Review
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diseases energy gas grass
west east broom roof
even insects sandals soil
1. Sweden is _______________________ of Norway and _____________________ of Finland.
2. Students always ___________________ very busy at the end of the semester.
3. Many kinds of _________________________ eat farmers’ crops.
4. The Whites have ________________________ all around their house. There are also flowers and trees.
5. Desert ___________________________ is very dry.
6. We can get some _______________________ from drinking dirty water.
7. Tom looked everywhere for his dictionary. He ________________________ looked in his car.
8. Roberto is an____________________. He works in Geneva.
9. Tourists usually go to art ___________________________ to see beautiful pictures.
10. Your feet feel cool when you wear _________________________.
11. Lois is a ______________________ student than Helen. Helen is not a good student.
12. The __________________________ is on the outside of the house. The ceiling is on the inside.
D Questions
1. Describe an oranges.
2. Do all oranges have seeds?
3. Describe an orange tree.
4. Where did the orange tree probably come from?
5. Who plants wild orange trees?
6. Who did Europeans learn to raise oranges?
7. How did the United States get orange trees?
8. What does “orange” mean?
9. *Why did people in Saudi Arabia eat dates instead of oranges?
E Comprehension
1. Oranges are _______________.
a. Shiny and green c. sweet and juicy
b. Old and wild d. thin and white
2. Some oranges do not heave _______________.
a. Seeds c. flowers
b. Sections d. a skin
3. Orange leaves are _____________.
a. Shiny c. sweet
b. Thick d. wild
4. There are many ____________ orange trees in China today.
a. Shiny c. wild
b. Florida d. thick
5. Europeans learned to plant orange trees from farmers in ______________.
a. The Middle East and Asia c. wild
b. Florida d. Spain
6. *Oranges do not grow in __________.
a. India c. Mexico
b. Sweden d. North Africa
F Main Idea
1. Oranges are sweet and juicy with seeds and a skin.
2. Orange trees went from Asia to the Middle East to Europe to the New World.
3. Oranges probably came from China, and today people all over the world like them because they are sweet and juicy.
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