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lesson 14:
People and Plants
People use plants in many ways.
For food.There are about eighty thousand (80,000!)
different plants in the worldthat people can eat.
But half of the world's food comes from only threePlants:rice,corn and wheat.
For shelter.We use wood from trees to build houses andfurniture.
Tables,chairs and beds are furniture.
So is your desk.For medicine.
We make many medicines from plants.What's medicine?
Doctors use medicine to help sick people.For clothing.
Is your shirt made of cotton Cotton is made from the cottonplant.
Do you have a hat made of straw?
Straw hats are made from the stems of grass plants.
For things we use to work.
Look at the things on your desk.
Books,paper,pencils,erasersand the ink in your pen all comefrom plants.
To make food taste better.
Some plants make food taste better.
Ginger,chocolate and cinnamon all come from plants.Ginger is aroot.
Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cacao plant.
Cinnamon is made from the bark of a tree.
What are you doing,Danny?I'm eating some bark I hear bark isdelicious.
Would you like some bark,Brian?No,thanks!
Not all bark is good,Danny!
Only the bark of the cinnamon tree!You're right!Yuck!
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