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v2. Make meaningful phrases or sentences using the
above words. One has been done for you.

1. I read a book yesterday.

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let's Practise language :

here are some sentences about how plants make
food. choose the correct word from the brackets

and fill in the blanks.

Plants ___________(is/are) very important to us. All the

foods people eat ________(come/comes) directly or indirectly
from plants. For example, apples_______ (come/comes) from

an apple tree. The flour used to make bread ____(come/
comes) from a wheat plant. But what do plants_____ (eat/

eats)? They ________ (make/makes) their own food!

Plants______ (need/needs) several things to make their own

food. They ________(needs/need) chlorophyll (a green pigment
found in the leaves of plants), light, carbon dioxide, water,

nutrients and minerals. Plants______ (make/makes) food in
their leaves. The leaves________ (contain/contains) a pigment

called chlorophyll, which colours the leaves green. Chlorophyll
can make food that the plant can use from carbon dioxide,

water, nutrients, and energy from sunlight. This process is
called photosynthesis. During the process of photosynthesis,

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