Online Class Notes (Samara)[R]

Homework


Write about your favorite plant species and why it is your favorite. What is good about it? What is not good about it? How can it be used for the world?
写下你最喜欢的植物种类和为什么它是你最喜欢的。它有什么好处?有什么不好的?它如何被世界所利用?

Vocabulary

Activity / exercise: game
ex: I have to do a math exercise.
Scientists: Someone who studies science.
ex: Newton was a great scientist, all over the world.
Found: Past tense of Find.
Ex: I have found the answer
Ex: I found a secret between the police the sea.
Fossils: old bones that have become rock.
ex: We have found fossils in this field.
Parrot: A bird.
ex: A parrot often speaking some words that people tell it.
Endangered: A very small number of something, in danger of being extinct.
ex: There is a kind of moss, it is endangered.
Species: 物种
ex: There are different species on the planet.
Extinct: There is no more, there is zero, all are dead.
ex: Some species fish are extinct, many years ago.

Grammar


I can’t understand – I don’t know the meaning

Reading


We did a listening exercise.

Scientists found fossils from the biggest parrot that ever lived. It was a metre tall and weighed eight kilograms – twice the size of any other parrot. The fossils were in New Zealand. Researchers called the parrot Hercules. The largest parrot alive today is the kakapo, a flightless bird also from New Zealand. It is endangered.

New Zealand is famous for birds. The kiwi is its national symbol. Kiwis are endangered. The 3.6-metre-tall moa also came from New Zealand. It was the biggest bird that ever lived. It became extinct 600 years ago. Hercules lived 19 million years ago. It ate nuts, fruit and seeds. Scientists will discover many more species.