"Amazing Animals"
Lectura

Palabras Claves

La siguiente es una lista de vocabulario clave que necesitarás saber para entender la lección. Haz clic en la palabra para escuchar y repetir la pronunciación.

amazing: asombroso
talented: talentoso
surf: hacer surf, surfear
dye: teñir
fur: pelaje
tiny: diminuto
reward: recompensar
award: premio
harmonious: armonioso
tap: golpear ligeramente
tip: propina
budding: en ciernes (en proceso de formación)
enclosure: encierro
self-portrait: autorretrato
encourage: animar
behavior: comportamiento; conducta
trick: truco
command: orden
paw: pata; zarpa
hind: posterior; tresero

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Lectura

Amazing Animals

Animals can do the most amazing things. Check out these stories of five very talented animals.

Surfing Mice

Shane Willmott of Australia taught his three pet mice to surf. First, he taught them to swim in the bathtub. Then, he made tiny surfboards and taught them to surf in his swimming pool. Now, they surf at the beach. He dyes their fur to make them easy to find in the water if they fall off their boards. It's easy to lose a tiny mouse in a big ocean.

Rock Cats

Samantha Martin of Chicago trained her cats to play musical instruments. One plays the piano, another plays the guitar, and another plays the drums. She trained them by rewarding them with a little bite of chicken every time they made a sound using the instrument. They won't be winning any music awards, however. They can make sounds on the instruments but it's not very harmonious. At the end of their "concert," one of the cats even taps the tip jar to encourage the audience to drop some money in.

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Smart Parrot

One day Yoshio Nakamura of Japan took his parrot Yosuke out for some fresh air. Yoshio panicked when Yosuke flew away and was lost for three days. Fortunately, Yosuke was a very smart bird. After getting lost, the parrot was able to tell rescuers his name and address so that they could take him home. His owner was very excited because he thought that he would never see him again. He was very happy that he had taught the parrot to say his name and address.

Orangutan Photographer

Nonja the orangutan was given a camera as a toy and now is a budding photographer. He takes pictures of the other orangutans in his enclosure in the Vienna zoo and even takes self-portraits. Zookeepers have posted Nonja's pictures online and now she even has a Facebook page. The zookeepers have encouraged the behavior by giving her a special camera. Every time she takes a picture a raisin pops out giving her a delicious reward.

Reading Dog

Lyssa Howells trained her dog Willow to read signs. First, she taught the dog to do a few tricks when she said a verbal command. Then, she tried showing a written sign while she gave the verbal command so that the dog would learn to associate the sign with the trick. Finally, she stopped giving the verbal command and only used the sign. Willow the dog now raises her paw when her owner shows the sign that says "wave," she lies down when she reads "bang," and she sits on her hind legs when she reads "sit up." She can't actually read like you and I do but she learned to recognize the shapes on the sign and associated them with the trick.

These animal stories were adapted from the book 125 True Stories of Amazing Animals by National Geographic. It's a book designed for kids but it has fascinating stories that interest adults as well.

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Preguntas

Instrucciones
Escribe oraciones con cláusulas restrictivas (usando la palabra "that") para describir los animals del artículo.

Animales del Artículo
mice
cats
parrot
orangutan
dog

Ejemplo
can read signs
*
(Había un perro que podía leer rótulos.)
*Si el animal es plural (como "mice" y "cats"), el verbo va a ser were en lugar de was.

Lección Escrita

Describe un animal talentoso que conoces o de que has leído o oído. ¿Qué trucos puede hacer el animal?

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