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Some Polar Bear Facts
Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video :
- Sweeping away 4 months of darkness
- A polar bear
- She has been in her den the whole winter
- Mark the beginning of Spring
- Confinement underground
- To clean her fur
- For sheer joy
- Her cubs gaze out
- Steep slope
- Take your first steps
- Eager to reach their mother
- Deaf and blind beneath the snow
- Some two months ago
- She has not eaten for five months
- It starts to melt the sea ice
- She hunts for the seals
- Before the ice breaks up
- It is still -30 degrees