I. Venn Diagram Sports Comprehension
Vocabulary:1. hockey
2. football
3. soccer
4. tennis
5. golf
II. Sharks Reading
Types of Sharks:
1. whale shark 鯨鯊2. pygmy shark 侏儒鯊
3. bull shark 低鰭真鯊
4. tiger shark 鼬鯊
5. black tip reef shark 烏翅真鯊
6. hammerhead shark 雙髻鯊
7. cookie cutter shark 雪茄達摩鯊
8. goblin shark 歐氏尖吻鮫
9. dogfish shark 白斑角鯊
10. saw shark 鋸鯊
11. mako shark 尖吻鯖鯊
12. great white shark 大白鯊
Vocabulary:
1. Mississippi River2. cartilage
3.spiky (adj.) [not sharp!]
4.scales (n.)
5. jaws (n.)
6.clamp (v.)
7.prey (n.)
8. to thrash (v.)
9. (deadly, deadlier,) deadliest
10.stomach
11. hammer (n.)
12. circular
13. snout
14. saw (n.)
15. fascinating
Videos from the Reading: Bull sharks in freshwater, Great White Thrashing its Prey, Sharks Eating Other Sharks, Crazy Things Swallowed by Sharks, Cookie Cutter Bite, Mako Leaping Into Boat
Grammar: Compare and contrast using superlatives, (Practice /Game)
Activity: each person to make a list using positives superlatives to describe a good characteristic about someone in the class/school. Absolutely nothing even remotely negative allowed.
Writing: Choose a shark and write an acrostic poem, use your dictionary (Shark and Ocean Words)
Extra: Shark Conservation, The Importance of Great Whites, Shark Fin Ban
Sharks are in big trouble. Between 63 and 273 million sharks are killed every year due to human activities like overfishing and bycatch. As predators, sharks have played a vital role in maintaining healthy oceans for hundreds of millions of years, and any decline in populations can create a domino effect of unintended consequences. The demand for shark fins is one of the biggest threats to shark populations worldwide. In fact, it’s estimated that fins from as many as 73 million sharks are bought and sold in the global shark fin trade every year.
In 2011, Taiwan was the 1st Asian country to ban shark fin fishing, but illegal fishing is still a huge problem. Sharks are still killed in Taiwan for their fins. Restaurants still serve shark fin soup.
What is the _________ problem in the world? (great)
The ____________ problem in the world is_________.
我叫珍古德而我的年紀是 80 歲，希望您能留下寶貴的 5 分鐘，聆聽我說一些話... Jane Goodall 珍·古德 interview
III. Earthquakes 地震
Vocabulary:
1. event (n.) it Yesterday was the school sport's event.2. section (n.) it Mom cut the pizza into eight sections.
3. to occur (v.) An earthquake occurred in Italy.
4. damage (n.) it My car has a lot of damage.
5. electric (adj.) adj + noun I wish I could buy an electric car.
6. landslide (n.) it The house was covered by a landslide.
7. to predict (v.) The weather report predicts sunny skies.
8. to warn (v.) Teacher warns us to get better.
to warn (警告；告誡；提醒)
I warn, you warn, they warn
he, she, it warns
to be+ warning ( I am warning you)
past: warned (I warned you)
IV. The Grasshopper and the Ants Fable
Vocabulary:
1. to haul (v.) to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty（用力）拉，拖（重物）
They hauled the boat out of the water. 他們把船拉上了岸。
She hauled herself up into the tree. 她費勁地爬上了樹。
IDIOM: "haul ass" to move very quickly to a different place
快速散開
When the shooting started we hauled ass out of there.
槍擊開始後，我們就趕快離開了那裡。（尤指像穀谷、小麥等像草一樣的植物的）穀粒，穎果，穀（物）
grains of wheat/rice 麥／米粒
Grain is one of the main exports of the American Midwest.
穀物是美國中西部地區主要的出口商品。V. Helpful Trees
Video: Chicago Trees
Vocabulary:
能，能量；能源
energy conservation/efficiency.節能／能源使用效率
2. bill (n.) a request for payment of money owed, or the piece of paper on which it is written帳單
an electricity/gas/phone bill電／煤氣／電話費帳單
3. sewer (n.) a large underground pipe used for carrying wastewater and human waste away from buildings to a safe place下水道；排水管；陰溝
a sewer pipe 排水管
A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.
城市的地底下布有複雜的排水系統。V. Grammar:
1. Synonyms and Antonyms2. The Verb BE
3. Main and Helping Verbs
VI. Writing
1. Making questions out of statements2. Combing a sentence out of two sentences
3. Cursive practice
