(Upper-Intermediate) Can plants talk to each other?

Can plants talk to each other? It certainly doesn’t seem that way: They don’t have complex sensory or nervous systems, like animals do, and they look pretty passive. But odd as it sounds, plants can communicate with each other — especially when they’re under attack. 

Vocab

To beef up

Scarce (adj.)

The make-up (n.) of sth

To eavesdrop

A chemical fingerprint

To emit

Airborne (adj.)

To decipher

A symbiotic relationship

Filaments (n.)

Blight (n.)

To prompt / trigger

To ramp up 

 Ted Lesson:

Can plants talk to each other?  

 Gap fill for second listening:

Basking in the ___

Odd as it _______

Under _________

Plumes of ____________ chemicals

Increase the _____________ of

________ sb of danger

A self-__________ mechanism

__________ on signals

C________ warnings

_______ types

Airborne b__________

Ramp up p____________

Group speaking questions based on vocab:


Do you sometimes eavesdrop on other people's conversations?

What prompted you to study in New Zealand instead of another country?

Can you decipher these Chinese characters using the helpful prompts?













Here's the answers:











Expand the "person" character to convey...



follow

crowd

big



Combine the mouth and person pictograms to convey "prisoner"











Check:










Name five things that emit heat.









Name two things that emit steam.












Do they emit sounds?

Trees
Fish
Spiders
Lightbulbs
Grass
Leaves
Planets





Name some living things that can emit light?







What do these things have in common?

Shoes
Cheese
Vinegar
Arm pits
Feet
Rubbish bins





The sounds of the planets in our solar system