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Hello everybody, welcome back to American Textbook Reading Series.
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I'm your host, Brian Stewart.
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Today we're taking a look at Science Book 3, Unit 1.
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And the topic for Unit 1 is Living and Nonliving Things.
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In this unit, you will discover what living things do.
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And you will also discover how living and non -living things are different Hmm, interesting unit.
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So, let's get started with a list of the vocabulary.
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Okay, so let's go over the vocabulary.
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The first word is live as in to live
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Live to live means to be alive to be in the process of being alive now be careful with live
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Because it can also be pronounced in another way you can pronounce this Live
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but that has a different meaning if you say live that is an adjective, right?
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So live here this live is a verb
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to live I want to live a long time
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but live as an adjective we can say it is a live concert right?
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That means that people are playing.
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It's not recorded music.
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People are actually playing the music.
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You can see the people.
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It's live music, live concert.
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But live, okay?
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So be careful.
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Live live.
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Okay?
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In this case, live.
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Live means to be alive.
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Next word is to grow.
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Things that live grow.
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They grow during their lives, right?
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They become bigger or taller over a period of time.
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You are growing right now, right?
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You can't see it, right?
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Grow, to grow usually means it takes a long time, right?
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It takes many months, maybe years, for you to notice a change as you grow.
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But some animals grow very quickly, right?
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Like pets, dogs and cats, they grow very quickly.
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It's still hard to see, you don't see it happening right now, but you know over weeks or months very quickly they change, they grow.
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They become bigger or taller.
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Our next word is to change.
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To change means to become different.
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That's a good picture, right?
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You've all seen an egg, right?
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Sometimes you eat eggs for breakfast, right?
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Well, those are not eggs that will become chickens.
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Don't worry.
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But they are, but an egg that is a able to become a chicken will hatch after a while, right?
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The egg will change.
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It'll break open and a little chick will come out of it.
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That's a big change, right?
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To become different.
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You also change, right?
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When you were a baby, now you were a child or a teenager, you changed, right?
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And you will continue to change through your life.
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We all do.
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Okay
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Reproduce reproduce reproduce Reproduce means to make more living things of the same kind all living things are able to
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Reproduce that means that they can make more of living things that look like them.
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When you get older you might get married and have children.
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That means you will reproduce, right?
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When your dog gets older, it can meet another dog, become a parent, and they will have children, right?
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Plants, when they get older, they send out seeds or
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Pollen and they will reproduce and more plants will grow
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so to make more living things of the same kind that's to reproduce.
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Next word is A sad word.
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Die.
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to no longer be alive.
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Here we have a sad picture of a bird, probably an old bird, who became too old and then died.
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All living things.
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Become old and die.
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It's part of life.
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The thing is enjoy your life while you're alive, while you are living, right?
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To enjoy your life and be good to other people.
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That's the important thing.
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Okay, our next word is move. To move.
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To move means to go from place A to place B, right?
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Something is at place A and it moves over to place B.
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Now here we have a picture of a snail.
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Snails are famous for moving very slowly.
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Somebody might say, "You move like a snail." Means you move very slowly.
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And probably not a good idea, especially if you're going to school.
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Okay, so actually we have a video of a snail moving and you can see, I'll start the video here, you can see Okay, the snail is moving,
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but it's taking a long time.
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Right?
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Very slow.
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In the background, you saw the cars going by very quickly.
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Cars move fast. Be careful.
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Snails move really slow.
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This snail's very slow.
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Okay, we don't have time to watch him move.
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It would take a long time to see him move from one side to the other.
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We don't have time.
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Okay, so next we have breathe.
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Breathe.
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Okay, we have the E at the end, that's important.
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I will explain soon.
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But to breathe means to...
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take air into the body, actually you take it into your lungs, right?
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And then you send it out again.
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All living things breathe.
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animals and plants have different ways to breathe, but for animals, right, we breathe in the air,
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the air goes into our lungs, we take the oxygen out and it goes into our blood and this gives us energy.
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We need the oxygen to live.
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So we breathe in the air.
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We don't need all of the air, just a little part of it is oxygen, but we take that oxygen and we breathe out the breath,
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the air that we don't need or the the gas that is coming out of our body.
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So it's important to think about breathe in, breathe out.
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So we can also say that you breathe in and you breathe.
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out.
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Okay, breathe in Breathe out.
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Breathe in, breathe out.
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And we do it all the time.
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We don't even think about it because it's a natural part of living.
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Now, I said it's important.
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The E at the end.
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Now there's a very similar word.
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It's called, it's spelled this way, and this is different so be careful.
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Breath.
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Breathe is a verb.
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It's the action, right?
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I showed you.
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That's to breathe.
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Breath is a noun Okay, so be careful.
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Don't get those two words confused.
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We can say take a breath. That is a breath.
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Breathe in and breathe out.
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That is one breath.
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Okay, so when you talk about a breath as a noun, it's no E and we pronounce it breath, but if you're talking about the action,
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that's a verb, we put an e on the end and we pronounce it Breathe.
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Okay, so breath.
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Breathe. Be careful.
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Don't get them mixed up.
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Okay, good.
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Okay, next.
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We have a video.
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Now fish can breathe.
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How can fish breathe?
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They're underwater.
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Where do they get the air?
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Well, it's interesting because even in water there is gas.
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Water is hydrogen and oxygen.
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And fish are designed to be able to get the gas, the oxygen that they need, through their gills, right?
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They don't breathe in through their mouth.
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They have gills on the side You know,
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we can see the little fish moving around.
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It's hard to see their gills.
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You can see their mouths moving, but they're not really breathing through their mouth.
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They're breathing through their gills.
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Let me write that for you.
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gills.
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And I put S because
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fish have two gills on either side right
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and they're kind of their neck and they kind of open up
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and close as they're swimming and that's where the water passes through
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and they can catch the air or the oxygen that they need through their gills.
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So fish obviously are much different than mammals because they breathe differently and they can breathe underwater.
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but they have to come up
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and they have a hole in the back of their head
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that opens up and they take in the air and they breathe through that hole.
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So mammals and whales are not really fish, they're mammals.
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But true fish have gills.
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Okay, interesting.
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Next, we have oxygen, and I've said that word before.
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Oxygen, oxygen, or oxygen.
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If you say it quickly, it sounds like Oxygen.
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Oxygen.
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Oxygen is very important.
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Obviously, I just said when we breathe in, we need the oxygen in the air.
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The air around us actually,
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you know, it's kind of maybe a bigger Lesson, nitrogen and oxygen.
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The air right now around me and around you is
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21 % only 21 % oxygen the rest what is that that's 79 % Nitrogen, right?
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So we don't need nitrogen.
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Our bodies don't use nitrogen.
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Nitrogen is, it's like nothing to our body.
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We don't react to nitrogen, but we do react with oxygen and we need oxygen to live.
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Oxygen goes into our blood.
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It helps us do many of the functions that our cells need to be able to do what they do.
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And there's so many different cells that do have different tasks.
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So, oxygen is a gas, right?
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It's a gas that living things need.
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We need it, fish need it, many different living things need oxygen.
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So, oxygen is a gas, right?
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oxygen and mostly the air is 79 % nitrogen, 21 % oxygen.
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Yes there are other gases but they're very small they're not really measurable in any situation, any typical situation, okay, that we,
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you know, in the outside.
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Okay, good.
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So oxygen is very important for us and most living things.
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Next we have healthy.
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Healthy means to be strong and well.
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I hope you are healthy and your parents are very interested or they're very worried, hopefully not too worried, that you stay healthy.
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And you should eat well, eat good things, eat vegetables, eat, you know, depending on, you know, meat is good,
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vegetables of course are very important.
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Make sure you eat a balanced diet You also need to exercise.
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This boy is exercising because you need to give your muscles the practice or the chance to grow strong.
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And you want to stay healthy.
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And not just eating and exercise, you also need sleep.
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So make sure you get enough sleep.
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Put your phone away.
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Don't play video games too long.
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Get enough sleep at night.
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All of these things help you remain healthy.
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And you want to be healthy all your life.
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Of course, when you're young, you're very strong and healthy.
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As you get older, you have to work harder to stay healthy.
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Okay.
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Good.
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Okay.
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Now, let's take a look at the difference between living things and non -living things.
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So that's what this unit is about really, living and non -living things.
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How are they different?
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Well, we've learned a lot of words in the vocabulary section about living things.
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We learned grow, right?
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Living things grow.
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They get bigger and taller.
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And So you can see the picture of the swan and the little baby swans.
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The babies will grow, they'll get taller.
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They will become adult swans.
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Do non -living things grow?
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Well, Oxygen is a non -living thing, it's a gas.
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Does it grow?
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No, we use it, but oxygen by itself, it doesn't get bigger, it stays the same.
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It doesn't have a process where it gets bigger or taller.
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It just stays the same.
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Okay, next living things change.
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Yeah, they change of course as they grow they get bigger they get taller,
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but some living things change as they grow grow or as they become from a baby to a child to an adult,
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they actually change form.
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For example butterflies, caterpillars, they will change form.
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they grow so they change
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and we saw the example of the egg becoming the chick they change but do non -living things change?
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No, they do not change, right?
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You see a rock and That rock will always be the same.
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It doesn't change by itself.
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I mean, yeah, sure, I can take a hammer and break it and then it changes, but I had to do that or something else had to do that.
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The rock by itself will not change by itself.
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Living things do change by themselves.
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Okay, next we have move.
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Move from one place to another.
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We saw the snail.
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The snail takes a long time.
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move more quickly, right?
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And of course birds move very fast and horses, as we can see in the picture, they move very quickly from one place to another.
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But do non -living things move by themselves?
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No, they don't.
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I mean you might have a doll on your shelf in your bedroom, but if you put it there and you leave it there, it's not going to move.
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I hope, no I'm just kidding, no it won't move, don't worry.
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Okay, so you have to pick it up and put it somewhere.
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And before the snail video I said look at the cars, of course people are making those cars move.
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If you park the car and leave it, the car is not going to move by itself, right?
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So non -living things do not move by themselves.
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Okay, next, last, we have reproduce.
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And we can see the mother and the father and a baby.
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I don't know if it's a girl or a boy, but it's a baby and they have a baby.
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Mother and the father got together, they created a baby.
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All living things have the ability to reproduce, to make younger copies of themselves.
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They're not perfect copies, they're a little bit different.
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We wouldn't, that would be very boring if everybody was the same.
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So it's very interesting that they're a little bit different, but we have the ability to reproduce all living things.
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Do non -living things, can they reproduce?
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No, even though in the picture we see many houses that look like they're the same, right?
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But those houses didn't reproduce by themselves.
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No. People, construction workers, came and built those houses you know, but the houses don't get together and have babies.
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What's a baby house?
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That's crazy.
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We don't, that doesn't happen.
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So non -living things do not reproduce.
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Living things do.
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So this chart shows us many differences between living things and non -living things.
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What do living things do?
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And living things do not do those things.
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Okay, interesting.
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Now, when we take a look at living things, we can say that all living things do these three things in our chart.
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First, we can see that all living things grow.
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The baby drinks milk from her mother.
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So she can grow right when the mothers have the baby they will give milk to their babies
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So the baby needs milk and after the baby gets older the baby doesn't need the milk anymore, but they still need to eat We all need to eat.
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I hope you eat well during the day and you eat healthy foods to stay healthy so you
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if you do that you will grow strong you will grow well okay that's that's important obviously
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so all living things grow the second thing is change, right?
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In the first picture we see the baby, but maybe after a few years now we have a young girl, right?
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So change the girl, you know before the girl is a baby, right?
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She can't talk.
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Maybe she's a gag gag gag gag bo bo bo bo, but that's not talking really, right?
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But when she gets older she can say words, she can make sentences, she can say talk, say what she's thinking, that's to talk.
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She can walk by herself.
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Babies don't walk, they crawl, right?
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And she can eat by herself.
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Mom doesn't have to give her the food, right?
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It goes down.
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The child can eat by herself.
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So the baby girl changed into a child.
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You changed from a baby to a child or a teenager and later on you will become an adult.
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You changed throughout your life.
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most of my changing.
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Still have some change left in me but we all change.
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Everybody changes.
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Reproduce.
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Reproduce is the third thing and that of course is when, you know, we can talk about this girl.
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Actually, let's imagine that this is the same person in each of the picture.
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First we see the little baby, right?
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Then she grows a little bit older, she's a baby, she changes into a child.
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Many years later she becomes a woman and look, she has a baby of her own.
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So she reproduced, she grew older, she became a woman, and with a man she was able to reproduce.
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So the woman has a baby of her own.
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So again, all living things are able to reproduce, to make copies of themselves, not exact copies.
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but copies of themselves.
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New living things.
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And that's life.
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Okay, so living things can do that.
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Okay, now it's time for the reading.
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As usual, read along with me.
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Maybe you can read out loud as I read
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or read along in your head and think about the pronunciation of the words.
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And of course, remember the vocabulary that we learned at the beginning of this unit.
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Are you ready?
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Let's begin.
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Thank you.
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In the world, there are living things and non -living things.
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A living thing is something that is alive.
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Thank you.
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A chick is a living thing.
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A chick lives in a nest.
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It needs space to live in.
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a chick breathes air Air has oxygen in it.
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Do you remember how much?
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Right?
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Usually 21 % oxygen.
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Okay?
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Okay.
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Air has oxygen in it.
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Almost all living things need oxygen to live.
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A chick needs to eat and drink.
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Food and water help keep the chick healthy.
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Thank you.
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Keep healthy, also stay healthy.
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These are very common expressions.
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Stay healthy.
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I hope you stay healthy.
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Please keep healthy.
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Okay, don't say keep your health.
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That's strange.
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Just say keep healthy or stay healthy.
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I Okay, next.
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It grows and changes into a chicken.
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Right?
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So a baby chick will grow and change into an adult chicken.
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Okay, next.
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Living things can reproduce.
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A chicken can make an egg.
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A chick comes from an egg.
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One day the chicken will die.
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All living things die.
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Okay, so living things reproduce, right?
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A chicken makes an egg, chick comes from the egg and then The chick is born, grows older, becomes an adult,
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and it lays an egg too, so you know it goes around and around.
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And then after a while it will die.
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All living things die.
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Thank you.
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Some things do not die because they have never been alive.
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They are called non -living things.
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Rocks are non -living things.
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They do not breathe or grow.
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Rocks do not need to eat or drink.
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A rock does not move by itself.
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Non -living things cannot reproduce.
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Okay. So, that's interesting.
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That passage obviously we had two different things we were talking about.
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Now, when you read about two different things or you write about two different things,
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probably you want to say how were they? the same or how are they different?
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This passage obviously was talking about two different things and they are different.
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They're not the same, they're different.
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One thing, first we saw and we read about living things and we learned what living things do,
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then In the middle of the passage, we changed, we switched, we transitioned, right?
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We had a transition, sorry, a transition.
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A transition is when you change from one subject to another.
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So in the middle of this of the paragraph,
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we had a transition and we started talking about we transitioned into talking about non -living things,
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and we showed how they are different.
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So this is contrast, not comparison, contrast Okay, so when your teacher says,
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you know, compare or contrast, should really be compare or contrast, two different things, you can compare them.
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Oh, you could compare and contrast.
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That would be a bit longer.
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You can say how they're the same and then how they're different.
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You could also do that.
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That's another.
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plan for your essay or for your writing passage.
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But anyway, this was contrast.
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So on the left -hand side, we have living things.
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On the right -hand side, we have non -living things.
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How are they different?
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How do they contrast? contrast equals different, right?
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Show difference.
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So let's start with the left side at the top.
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It says living things are Beep.
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Living things are what?
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Well, living things are, it was similar to a vocabulary word.
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It's not exactly the same, but in the reading passage, remember, it said living things are, what do they do?
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They live.
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If something lives, it is life.
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alive, right?
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So living things are Alive living things are alive alive.
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We say it is alive because we say it lives
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So to live is a verb alive is an adjective right they are alive It is alive.
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Living things need food, water and what else do they need?
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We talked about food, water,
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In the vocabulary section, we talked about something that living things need and to get it,
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To get that thing, we have to do something, We have to breathe.
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What are we getting when we breathe?
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We are getting oxygen.
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Oxygen.
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So, living things need food, water, and oxygen.
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in order to continue living.
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If you don't get food, you die.
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If you don't get water, you die.
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If you don't get oxygen, you die.
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So don't die.
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Get food, get water, get oxygen, stay healthy.
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Okay, good.
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So, living things, beep, and change.
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Now, that kind of means the same thing, right?
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But they're a little bit different, right?
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Because they change, how do they change?
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They get bigger and they get taller.
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When something gets bigger or taller, what are they doing?
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What's the vocabulary word?
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Grow, that's right, grow.
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So, living things grow and change.
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As they grow, of course, they change.
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Now, living things can beep.
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What?
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do living things do that non -living things cannot do.
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Now there's a lot of choices we could use for D, but we can just go over to the right hand side
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and see ah it's the opposite of what is on the right hand side.
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So we say living things can breathe well or living things can grow or living things can reproduce, which one is it?
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So let's look over.
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Non -living things cannot make new things like themselves.
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Aha!
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Make new things like themselves, what does that mean?
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The vocabulary word was reproduce, so we want to show the exact difference,
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so we need to put that here re - Pro deuce oops.
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I'm sorry reproduce you see e okay.
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Let me write that again re Pro -duce.
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Okay.
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You're a little weird with this pen.
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Okay, reproduce.
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So living things can reproduce.
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Those are things that living things can do.
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They're opposite of the other thing, of the other side, non -living things.
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So we said living things are alive, non -living things are not.
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alive, okay, that would be the direct Opposite.
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direct.
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Opposite.
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How are they different?
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Right?
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How How do you contrast them?
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What is the direct opposite?
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Alive, not alive.
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Living things need food, water, and beep.
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oxygen, we already have that, but non -living things do not need food, water, or oxygen.
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Of course, we can just use the same word because Do not need is the direct opposite of need.
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Okay?
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Direct opposite.
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So living things grow and change.
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Non -living things do not grow.
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or change, grow, or change.
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So do not is the opposite of, we don't need do here, but actually, you know, do is kind of what we say implied,
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We don't need it.
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We don't say it.
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We don't say living things do grow and change.
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We don't need do.
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But if you say it negatively, then you say do not.
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Right?
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Non -living things do not grow or change.
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Okay?
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That's the direct opposite of what they do do.
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Okay.
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And then finally, as we saw before, living things can reproduce.
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Non -living things cannot make new things like themselves.
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That's the same as saying reproduce.
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Okay.
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So basically, this chart shows us the difference the opposites characteristics between living things and non -living things.
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You know, what do living things do?
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What do non -living things Not do right.
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How are they different?
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Okay, so that was an interesting unit, right?
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We talked about the differences between living things and non -living things
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and we focused on what do living things do and and what non -living things don't do.
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Okay, so kind of an interesting lesson.
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Well, that's it for today.
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I hope you learned a lot as always and we'll see you in the next unit or the next lesson.
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Take care, everybody.
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Bye -bye.
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Thank you.
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Context & Background
In the latest episode of the American Textbook Reading Series hosted by Brian Stewart, learners dive into Science Book 3, Unit 1, focusing on the intriguing topic of "Living and Nonliving Things." This unit aims to differentiate between living and nonliving entities while exploring the unique characteristics of life. As Stewart engages with his audience, he introduces essential vocabulary that forms the backbone of this lesson, providing learners with the tools they need for effective communication in everyday contexts. His clear explanations and relatable examples create an accessible environment for those looking to enhance their understanding of English through science themes.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- To live: Use this verb to describe the state of being alive. Example: “I want to live a long time.”
- To grow: This verb signifies the process of becoming larger or older over time. Example: “Pets can grow very quickly.”
- To change: This verb conveys the idea of becoming different. Example: “The egg will change into a chicken.”
- Nonliving things: This term refers to objects that do not exhibit life. Understanding the contrast is vital for effective communication.
- Living things: Knowing this term helps emphasize characteristics essential to life, such as growth and change.
Step-by-step Shadowing Guide
To maximize your learning from this video, apply the shadowing technique, a powerful method for enhancing your English speaking practice skills. Follow these steps:
- Listen Actively: Start by watching the video without distractions. Pay attention to Brian’s pronunciation, intonation, and rhythm.
- Simple Repetition: After each phrase, pause the video and repeat what you hear. Focus on mimicking his voice closely to improve your English pronunciation.
- Break It Down: If a phrase feels challenging, break it into smaller parts. Shadow these segments individually before combining them into full sentences.
- Practice with Context: Use the vocabulary in daily conversations. For example, discuss things in your life that grow or change.
- Review Regularly: Revisit the video and practice consistently on a shadowing site or platform that supports video-based learning, like Shadowspeak, which provides excellent resources for comprehensive practice.
By integrating these techniques into your study routine, you’ll not only grasp the lesson's content better but also significantly enhance your overall communication skills in English.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be pronounced · are designed · is born |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've said · we've learned · have never been |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | might get · might say · might have |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | were talking · was talking |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.