Summary: The man in the story travels through the rain forest and wants to chop down the great kapok tree. We're preserving habitats for endangered species, conserving wildlife corridors, and saving breeding grounds. There are a range of activities to complete to cater for all abilities and these learning activities will help your class improve and become more aware of their sentence construction. The book is dedicated to Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper trying to protect the rainforests, who was murdered in 1988. The animals that depend on the tree appear to the man on his dreams and tell him why he shouldn't cut it down.

The monkeys say, "If you chop down this tree, you're going to chop down another one," an unintentional lesson in the slippery slope fallacy. It was recommended reading for his lesson on South America and it's all about saving the rain forests.But because the soil in the lowland rainforest is so thin and washes away with frequent rains, the tree must support itself by growing huge, tripod-like buttresses, rising outward from its base.

Explain that the main idea of the page is that the smaller man started chopping down the tree, but fell asleep because he was hot. Their branches provide a habitat for countless epiphytes, which provide food and shelter for many types or animals. Remember that you can always manage your preferences or unsubscribe through the link at the foot of each newsletter.The trees produce several hundred 15cm (6in) pods containing seeds surrounded by a fluffy, yellowish fibre that is a mix of lignin and cellulose.

After watching the birds fly away, a jaguar leapt from a nearby branch and padded silently over to the sleeping man. Your class also have the opportunity to change the structure of sentences to add in an apostrophe to show possession. Its trunk is up to 3 m (10 ft) wide and it has no lower branches: instead, the branches are bunched at the top with an umbrella-like canopy. The commercial tree is most heavily cultivated in the rainforests of Asia, notably in Java (hence one of its common names), the Philippines, Malaysia, and Hainan Island in China, as well as in South America.

Other images of the World Tree are at the Temples of the Cross and Foliated Cross at Palenque: but they don't have the massive trunks or thorns of the ceiba.