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REAL ENGLISH I know!
A. (🎧1-28) Listen and read. Then repeat the conversationand replace the words in blue.
B. Practice with a partner. Replace any words to make your own conversation.
1. gracefully - quickly
Hey, Nadine. What kind of animal do you think I'm like?
Let's see... I know! You're like a dolphin. You're smart and you swim really well!
2. an owl - a bat
What about me, Minh?
I think you're like a raccoon because you eat all kinds of strange things!
3. loudly - well
What kind of animal am I like?
You're like a bird because you sing beautifully...
4. turtle - sloth
Hurry up, Stig! You're moving very slowly today. You're like a snail!
Sorry!
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| DESCRIBING BEHAVIOR-MAKING COMPARISONS (PP. 156-157) |
| Sloths are slow and quiet. Sharks are good swimmers. Ants are hard workers. | Sloths move slowly and quietly. Ants work hard. | Sloths move more slowly and quietly than pandas. Dolphins swim better than some sharks. Ants work harder than many other insects. | quick → quickly slow → slowly easy → easily bad → badly |
| How does a snake wait? | It waits patiently. | A snake sometimes waits more patiently than a crocodile. | good → well fast → fast hard → hard |
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C. Circle the correct words.
Snowy owls live in the Arctic. It's not 1. (easy / easily) to find food there, but these 2. (beautiful / beautifully) birds are very 3. (good / well) hunters. They wait for their prey 4. (more patient / more patiently) than other species. They sit 5. (quiet / quietly) and wait until they see a mouse, a rabbit, or another small animal. Then they move in 6. (quick / quickly). Snowy owls also hear 7. (well / better) than other birds. This is important when they are trying to find food under the snow.
D. (🎧1-30) Complete the conversation with the correct form of the words in parentheses. Then listen and check your answers.
Maya: What are you reading, Stig?
Stig: Oh, it's a book about elephants. Did you know elephants can communicate (1) _____ (easy) with other elephants up to eight kilometers away? They make a (2) _____ (loud) sound with their trunk.
Maya: So they have a (3) _____ (good) sense of hearing?
Stig: Yeah, but their eyesight is (4) _____ (bad). I also learned that they don't run. They just walk (5) _____ (quick).
Maya: I know something interesting about elephants.
Stig: What's that?
Maya: They swim (6) _____ (good). I saw a video of it. It was (7) _____ (beautiful).
E. Complete the sentences about yourself. Then join a group and share the information. Suggest what animal each person is like.
1. I run ____________________.
2. I eat ____________________.
3. I jump ____________________.
4. I swim ____________________.
5. I work ____________________.
From your answers, I think you're like a rabbit.
