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ESL / EFL Lesson Activity on a Meat-Eating Plant

Botanists have a new type of plant. It is a giant meat-eating plant called a pitcher plant. This kind of plant usually eats insects which fall it. The new pitcher plant is not an ordinary one. It is so big it can eat rats and lizards. Small children and pet dogs are safe. They are too big for this new plant. Botanists found this new in the Philippines. It was on a mountain about 1,600 metres above sea level. It has a special name – ‘Nepentles attenboroughi’. This is because it is named a famous British botanist called David Attenborough.
This is an amazing and exciting discovery. It’s great that we keep on new plants and animals. I always thought we knew everything about on Earth. This find in the Philippines shows we don’t. We might even find a dangerous pitcher plant in the . Can you imagine a really giant one? One that is so big it could an elephant. We’re lucky there aren’t so many plants that are dangerous. It would be a very different world if more plants ate meat. I if meat-eating plants can be vegetarian.