Class work

11. Decide whether the following statements are true (t) or false(f), if the sentence is false, correct it. While answering use the following phrases:

Personally I am more inclined to think that…

I don’t think that’s right…

My opinion is exactly the same…

I’m afraid I entirely disagree with…

1. Flowers are the part of the plant that holds reproductive parts of the plant in the group of plants called gymnosperms.

2. When Hans heard that he had missed the chance to get twice as much money than the money he was given he went mad.

3. Many years ago there lived in Holland in the outskirts of the Hague, an unremarkable man.

4. The male part of the flower that contains the pollen producing parts is the stamen.

5. Plants whose seeds have one seed leaf are monocots.

6. The base of the flower where it is attached to the rest of the plant is the receptacle.

7. All flowers have the same number of flower parts.

8. The innermost part of the flower that contains the ovaries that make the ovules to be fertilized by the pollen are the carpels.

9. Plants whose seeds have more than one seed leaf are ferns.

10. The action of the legend takes place in 1760.

11. The colorful parts of the flower within the sepals altogether called the corolla are carpels.

12. As soon as the strangers (from the legend) got the bulb, they planted it in their garden.

13. The parts of the flower that are the leaflike outermost layer altogether called the calyx are the petals.

14. As time passed black tulips became quite regular flowers.

12. Match the word and its explanation:

1.sepals	a. one of the parts of a flower that is arranged in a circle. They are the colored part of the flower.
2.carpels	b. the female part of the flower, which produces the eggs that are needed for making seeds
3.stamen	c. a flowering plant that has 2 cotyledons in the embryo. The bean seed is an example. It has two special structures called cotyledons which are part of the embryo.
4.monocots	d. the outer green parts of the base of the flower. It protects the flower bud before it opens. Inside it are the colored petals.
5.petals	e. a plant that has only one cotyledon. The corn seed has only one cotyledon.
6.dicots	f. the male organ inside the petals. The part of a flower that produces pollen.
7.ovary	g. the female organs of a flower. They have three parts: 1) an ovary, holding one or more egg cells. 2) style and 3) stigma which is at the tip of the style and receives the pollen.

13. Answer the questions to the text:

a) What do students like in Nick’s lectures?

b) Where did Hans live?

c) What was he?

d) What was unusual about Hans’s tulip?

e) Why did Hans agree to sell the bulb of the black tulip?

f) Why did strangers begin stabbing the bulb until nothing was left of it?

g) Why did Hans go mad?

h) What is a flower?

i) What do plants produce flowers for?

j) What are main parts of a flower?

k) What are four basic parts of a flower?

l) What is a sepal?

m) What are petals?

n) What is a stamen?

o) What is a carpel?

p) What do ovules form when fertilized with pollen?

q) Does the number of flower parts differ from flower group to flower group or is it always the same?

r) What do the parts of the flower tend to come in the monocots, in dicots?

s) Can the flowers be without stamens, without carpels, or without stamens and carpels at the same time?