Pre-reading questions:
- What is your favorite animal?
- Do you like watching dinosaur films?
Vocabulary:
- ago /uh-GOH/
- dinosaur /DAHY-nuh-saur/
- animal /AN-uh-muhl/
- flying /flahy-ing/
- across /uh-KROS/
[adverb] back in time from the present
I met her online 3 years ago.
[noun] a type of reptile that became extinct millions of years ago
Some dinosaurs are really small and some are large.
[noun] a living thing that can move and eat and react to the world through its senses, esp. of sight and hearing
Animals are wild and beautiful.
[adjective] able to fly
Beetles are a type of flying insect.
[preposition] from one side to the other side of, or at the other side of
The bakery is just across the street.
The well-preserved remains of the new Pterosaurs species that lived 95 million years ago were discovered by researchers. The remains of the creature were found more than 15 years ago in a limestone quarry in Lebanon. The newly found specimen is a Pterosaur flying reptile during the dinosaur age that developed the skill of flight, and it is the most complete pterosaur that has been discovered. According to Michael Caldwell, a co-author of the study, the pattern of these ancient animals is more diverse than they ever discovered from the fossil record. Caldwell also said, “This means that this Lebanese dinosaur was a part of flying reptiles living in and around and across the ancient Tethys Seaway, from China to a great reef system in what is today Lebanon.”
True or False:
- Pterosaurs are flying reptiles.
- The new species lived thousands of years ago.
- The newly found specimens are flying reptiles during the dinosaur age that developed the skill of flight.
- According to Michael Caldwell, the ancient animals are very much the same as they ever discovered from the fossil record.
- The Lebanese dinosaurs lived around and across the ancient Tethys Seaway.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| ago | dinosaur | animal | flying | across |
- Some ________ eat vegetables, some eat meat.
- You have to go ________ the street to find the nearest bank.
- She used to be my best friend a long time ________.
- Birds are ________ vertebrates.
- I like cute ________.