A couple of months ago, I enjoyed working with a very enthusiastic group of teenagers. They were just lovely! The last week we were together, we talked about the natural world, specifically, endangered animals. That was not the first time I was teaching that course and conducting such an activity. Motivated by the good group of young students I had, I decided to do something different that time. The first task in the textbook was a vocabulary activity. It included two paragraphs - one about koalas (and a picture of a koala next to it) and the other about gorillas (and a picture of a gorilla). Each paragraph had bold-faced words to be taught and learned in context. What were those words? Here is the vocabulary: mascot, endangered, extinct, suffering, misty, dense, raise awareness, set up, remaining, install, illegal The book also had a matching activity to relate the bold-faced words with their definitions. What wo...
