### Lesson 3. I Love Flowers!

Getting ready for the task:
• Do you like flowers?
• Do you know their meanings and colours?
• What flowers do you love?Why?
• Why are flowers important in life?
Key words:
to pick up - to collect smth from a place
a bud - a small lump that grows on a plant
a blossom - a tiny shape of a flower
tiny - very small
endemic - regularly found in a particular place and difficult to get rid of
healing - the process of getting better after an emotional shock
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GW. Look at the samples, sort the flowers out and fill in the grid. You can add any other flower to the grid.

Field /wild flowers | Houseplants
• Wild flowers are beautiful, fragrant and colourful. • Daisy - can be white, yellow and sometimes orange. Daisy means day's eye. | • Roses can be colourful: red, yellow, white, pink... . I like pink roses. Pink roses make me feel happy/calm. Roses smell sweet. As in the proverb: Tastes differ.

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GW. Project. Choose the flowers to decorate or make your home/room pretty. What flowers would you like to choose and why? Use the key words.

LISTEN AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS! Read Listening Material
Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   A) the world’s oldest flower
   B) the symbolic meanings of the flowers
   C) the flowers
   D) the colours of the flowers
   E) the smell of the flowers
2. Which is not mentioned according to the passage.
   A) Many flowers have important symbolic meanings.
   B) The world’s oldest flower is more than 100 million years old.
   C) Khari Bulbul grows in the mountains of Shusha.
   D) Fruits, which contain seeds, develop from flowers.
   E) Khari Bulbul looks as if a nightingale is sitting on it.
3. Choose the correct answer to the question.
   What do red roses symbolize?

   1. hatred | 2. beauty | 3. love | 4. cruelty

   A) 1, 2 | B) 2, 3 | C) 3, 4 | D) 1, 3 | E) 2, 4

4. Complete the sentence according to the passage.
   People use this wonderful flower (Khari Bulbul) as … .
5. Which word in the passage is closest in meaning to “necessary of significant”.

A flower is also known as a bloom or blossom. You can find flowers on flowering plants. The world’s oldest flower is about 130 million years old.

Many flowers have important symbolic meanings in Western culture. For example, red roses symbolize love and beauty. Nowadays people use flowers to mark important events in their lives: birthdays, wedding ceremonies and anniversaries. People grow flowers around their homes and decorate their rooms with flowers because of their colours and smell.

Khari Bulbul is a beautiful flower which grows in Azerbaijan, in Karabakh region, in the mountains of Shusha. It doesn’t grow anywhere else in the world. Khari means "bee" and Bulbul means "nightingale." The flower looks as if a nightingale is sitting on it. People use this wonderful flower as a healing herb. In March, 2014 a presentation ceremony of the Khari Bulbul flower took place in the United States Botanic Garden Conservatory.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   A) the world’s oldest flower
   B) the symbolic meanings of the flowers
   C) the flowers
   D) the colours of the flowers
   E) the smell of the flowers
2. Which is not mentioned according to the passage.
   A) Many flowers have important symbolic meanings.
   B) The world’s oldest flower is more than 100 million years old.
   C) Khari Bulbul grows in the mountains of Shusha.
   D) Fruits, which contain seeds, develop from flowers.
   E) Khari Bulbul looks as if a nightingale is sitting on it.
3. Choose the correct answer to the question.
   What do red roses symbolize?

   1. hatred | 2. beauty | 3. love | 4. cruelty

   A) 1, 2 | B) 2, 3 | C) 3, 4 | D) 1, 3 | E) 2, 4

4. Complete the sentence according to the passage.
   People use this wonderful flower (Khari Bulbul) as … .
   Answer: “a healing herb”
5. Which word in the passage is closest in meaning to “necessary of significant”.
   Answer: “important”