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iridescent, migrates, nectar, plumes, conservationists, isolated, amphibians, targeted, luxurious, wiped out, captivity, companion, retired, binoculars, coax, retraced, elusive, assuring, ferry, queasy, industrial, melancholy, incline, intently
Compare and contrast
Expressing probability

Task

Grammar

Vocabulary

Character analysis

Assessment

Reading

Level 7 Unit 2 Lesson 8

Beautiful Birds

Get Thinking!

How are you similar to your father?

Idioms

Free as a birdDo you like being free as a bird?

Reading

Prereading

Have you ever been on a quest?
So, as soon as he retired from his post as a history professor and no longer had his teaching to keep him busy all day, he determined it was time to start his quest.
When he turned 65, my father decided that his new goal in life was to find a Hoopoe bird. He saw a picture of this bizarre species in a magazine and decided that it was so peculiar, he had to see it with his own eyes.
retired

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the most important tool for any birder. Without binoculars, he wouldn’t be able to observe the birds from a distance. He also didn’t own any hiking boots, cargo shorts or field guides. In general, he was woefully unprepared
Though my father enjoyed easy walks around the city and liked to watch the sparrows in the garden, he clearly had no idea how to start a birding adventure. For one thing, he didn’t even own binoculars,
binoculars

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He was certain we would find the hoopoe eventually. When we checked in to the hotel, for the fourth night, I checked my messages and had to tell my father, “Bad news, The birding group now says that the hoopoes have all moved north out of Africa, dad.”
My birding group kept assuring me that the hoopoe was just a little bit further north, so we kept driving. The weather was hot and dry, so we stayed in the air conditioned car for the majority of the day. By the third day, I was tired, sore and a little bored, but my father remained upbeat and excited.
assuring

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obsessed with some common bird; a pigeon, for instance. I spent some time talking to the man at the front desk and found out there was a ferry to Spain that left early the next morning. We got up at the crack of dawn, registered the car and drove it onto the ferry.
My father looked at me with determination in his eyes. “Well, then we’ll have to go north as well.” “We only have 3 more nights before our flight home,” I told him. “We can do it, son.” He stood and looked at the new maps the group had sent. “We’ll have to go to Spain.” I groaned and wondered why my father couldn’t have become
ferry

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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

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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

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from people who had seen hoopoes in a large park, so we headed straight there. My father hummed along to the radio while I tried not to throw up.
A few long hours later, we drove the car off the ferry and headed north east toward Cadiz. My stomach was still queasy from the rocking of the boat and my head was pounding. I asked my father to drive for a while and tried to nap while we drove toward the city. I had received three alerts
queasy

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Compare the characters of the father and the child.

Character

teacher tips

Fill in the Blank

conservationist

migrate

iridescent

nectar

  1. In winter, the birds all to warmer places.
  2. The feathers sparkledin the sun.
  3. The in the flower was a popular source of food for the birds.
  4. When I grow up, I will be a because I love nature.
a class of animal
away from other things
select to attack
feathers
amphibians
target
isolated
plumes

Matching

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wiped out

companion

captivity

isolated

plumes

targeted

amphibian

nectar

migrates

Tic Tac Toe

retired
coax
binoculars
retraced

Matching

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

Matching

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Choose

verify

  • queasy
  • cheesy
  • quetzal
  • retired
  • assuring
  • asking
  • increasing
  • queasy
  • elusive
  • organised
  • retired
  • queasy
  • ferry
  • bicyrlce
  • car
  • train
  • truck
  • retired
  • refrained
  • removed
  • eluded

I hate the ! The boat always smells terrible!

The Hoopoe is not really an bird, they were just in the wrong place.

correct

incorrect

XX

XX

My grandpa from work when he was only 60!

My mom kept me that she knew how to get to the station.

When the boat rocked, I felt really .

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Grammar

plausiblepossible, fair or reasonableIt is plausible that she was late because of a traffic accident.
probablevery likelyIt is probable that I will pass the test. I know all the information
possible able to be doneIt is possible to take a ferry to Spain.

Things that are possible are not always probable.

Probable

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Practice

Compare

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How would you describe speaker B?

Listening

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Extension

Be confident while you speak!
Give the final version of your speech
What did you enjoy learning about in this unit?

Exit Interview

You completed Unit Two!!

Congratulations!