Keeping Bees in the City is an article about bee-keeping which you read and then answer questions to check your understanding of the text.
Time
10 minutes
Main Skills
Reading
Topic
Environmental Issues - Exercise 1
Exam Session
2022-23
For the IGCSE ESL Exercise 1, the text about keeping bees in the city has been divided into smaller parts so you can focus on the task.
Here are the words and phrases covered in this exercise:
- beekeeping
- beehives
- diabetic
- fashionable hobby
- humming sound
- membership
- nectar
- new buzz
- over-subscribed
- parasitic mite
- pesticides
- rebellion
- strenuous activity
- urban beekeepers
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