BBC Earth Do You Know? Animals and Their Bodies
Level 1

Ladybird Do You Know? is a STEM-based ELT graded reading series, with simplified video, designed for children learning English as a foreign or second language.

How many ears do animals have? What can animals do with a tail? Find out about animals and their bodies in this BBC Earth reader.

The Ladybird Do You Know? graded readers series comprises a range of non-fiction STEM titles for young learners of English. Covering a variety of topics, Do You Know? adopts an enquiry-based approach, and includes motivating video content, project work and critical thinking activities to develop students' linguistic and twenty-first century skills. Recommended for children aged 7+, there are four levels progressing from CEFR level Pre-A1 to level A2. Each reader is accompanied by online video content, audio, video and comprehension activities, and suggestions for project work.

This Level 1 Reader is Pre-A1 in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Starters exams. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present tense and some simple adjectives.