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Transcript

Compare and Contrast
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Task

Grammar

Vocabulary

Narrative tone

Today's Lesson

Reading

Level 7 Unit 2 Lesson 6

Beautiful Birds

Get Thinking!

What are some possible problems a family might have?

Idioms

teacher tips

A bird in the hand . . . Do you remember what this idiom means?"A Bird in the Hand" is a song by the Velvelettes.

Reading

Prereading

Do you think they will find the Hoopoe bird?
“Let’s just find a hotel. We can start our search again in the morning. My father was clearly upset, but eventually he nodded and agreed with me. “Tomorrow is our last chance,” he said sadly. “We’ll have to spend the last day travelling to get back to Rabat for the flight."
I woke up to the setting sun and looked out the window. The car was surrounded by big factories and industrial buildings. We were nowhere near anything in nature. My father was turning the map around in his hands. “I think we’re lost,” he finally admitted. I bit my tongue and tried to stay calm.
industrial

Reading

hollered, while I packed up quickly. "There is a bird currently just six miles from here. I just know we’re going to find it today.”
My father was feeling melancholy the next morning. I could tell that he had lost a bit of his excitement and no longer believed he was going to find the Hoopoe. My phone buzzed with an alert. There was a Hoopoe in a park only 6 miles from us. “Come on Dad,” I
melancholy

Reading

trickle of water ran down behind us. A few oak trees were scattered around the field and right below one of them, hopping around without a care in the world, there was the Hoopoe.
We pulled onto a road next to the park, and I stopped the car. “Let’s walk a bit,” I suggested. “Even if we don’t find the bird, this is a beautiful park.” We started walking up a slight incline, over a hill full of long grass. The path led down next to a river, where a tiny
incline

Reading

the Hoopoe hopped around, pecking insects out of the grass. For a moment, I thought about the horrible trip back home that awaited us, but then I looked at my father’s face and it didn’t matter. We’d make that trip tomorrow. In the meantime, we would just enjoy this bird.
My father gasped and put his binoculars to his eyes. “It’s beautiful,” he whispered. He walked closer to the bird, and then sat down right in the grass. I stayed behind and took a few pictures of him sitting there intently watching the bird. We stayed there all day. Just sitting in the grass, letting the wind blow on our faces, while
intently

Reading

The writer's father decides he wants to find a Hoopoe.

The writer and his father get lost.

The writer and his father take a ferry to Spain.

The writer and his father fly to Rabat.

Order the Events

teacher tips

incline
very concentrated manner
related to industry
going up
sad
industrial
melancholy
intently

Matching

teacher tips

Make a Sentence

  • 30
  • Quicksand
  • black
  • 20
  • gauche
  • avec
  • 1000
  • 1
  • industrial
  • melancholy
  • incline
  • intently
  • queasy
  • ferry
  • assuring
  • elusive
  • retraced
  • coax
  • binoculars
  • retired
  • #8E701D
  • #f9e7b9
  • #7889b6
  • #B8C995

tone

Narrative

teacher tips

Grammar

must behas to beI bet

I bet it is her birthday. She must be one year old.

When something is very probable, we can use these words.

Probable

must behas to beI bet

Probably

teacher tips

Practice

Give Ideas

companions
???
sightseeing
How do you make a trip successful?
hotel
planning

teacher tips

What are the two different tones of the speakers?

Listening

teacher tips

Extension

Be ready to talk for 1 to 2 minutes about the animals you like and why animals are important to you.
Prepare a short speech to be presented in lesson 7.
Would you travel around the world to see a bird?

Exit Interview

Goodbye