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Duncan has sent a postcard to Leanne from Sea World, an adventure park in Florida where there is a large variety of animals: dolphins, sea lions, seals, penguins, sharks, bears, tortoises, orcas and even whales. For additional practice on Animal vocabulary click here. There is a large list of animals with their Spanish translation and a matching activity at the end.

Listen to the postcard, page 48, exercise 1.

In his postcard, Duncan says that he is 1amazed with the way dolphins can communicate. If you want to know a bit more about these friendly animals visit this link and try to answer the following questions. Then, you can write a comment with your answers or write them in your notebook and show them to me the next lesson. Do dolphins have hair? What group of mammals do dolphins 2belong to? What is a fluke? Which is bigger a dolphin or a killer whale? How fast can a dolphin swim? Do dolphins use their teeth to 3chew? Can dolphins 4smell? Which are the most intelligent dolphins, dogs or chimpanzees? Dolphins use echolocation in the water to find objects. What other animal uses echolocation in the air? Are dolphins 5endangered?

Glossary 1amazed: asombrado 2belong to: pertenecer a 3chew: masticar 4smell: oler 5endangered: en peligro

Listen to the article Leanne found about dolphins, page 48, exercise 2.

On page 49 we revise the use of the Simple Past, a tense we use to talk about actions or situations in the past. That is: yesterday, last week, last December or an hour 6ago.. I recommend you to visit the following site for more information about this tense: Simple Past And if you want more exercises try these sites I have found for you on the net. What is the simple past of ...? Exercise 1 Good at spelling: -s, -ed, -ing Exercise 2 Exercise 3 A short storywith regular verbs. Rewrite sentences in the negative Regular and irregular verbs. Exercise 4 Questions Complete the crossword Type the past faster than the boy.

6ago: hace (una hora).