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Reading Comprehension: Animals

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Reading Comprehension: Animals

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📚 Part 1: Read the Text

The barn owl is a quiet, pale bird that hunts at night. It lives in old barns, church towers and open countryside. Barn owls have very soft feathers and a round face that helps them hear tiny sounds. They mainly eat small mammals such as mice and voles. The owl flies silently and uses its excellent hearing to find prey in the dark. Farmers like barn owls because they help control pests.

1. Where does the barn owl often live?

In old barns and church towers

In city shops

In the sea

2. What do barn owls mainly eat?

Small mammals (mice and voles)

Leaves and seeds

Fish and crabs

3. What helps the owl fly quietly?

Very soft feathers

Bright colours

A loud call

4. Tick all statements that are true about barn owls:

They hunt at night

They have a round face that helps them hear

They mainly eat leaves

✏️ Part 2: Short Answers and Sequence

5. Put these in the correct order for how a barn owl finds its food. Draw a line to match:
1. The owl listens carefully
2. The owl flies quietly
3. The owl catches the prey
A. Catches the prey
B. Flies silently towards the sound
C. Hears tiny sounds from the ground
6. Why is the barn owl active at night? (Write one sentence)
7. Find and copy a phrase from the text that shows the owl can fly without making much noise.
8. Explain in two sentences how a barn owl helps farmers.

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