AENUL FITRAH

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ENGLISH EDUCATION A 2017

CORONAVIRUS: 'BORED' KOOKABURRA BIRD IN DAILY LOCKDOWN

WALK

A woman takes her pet bird on her daily walk during the coronavirus lockdown, as he
is "bored" at home.

Siren, a kookaburra, might be native to Australia, but he is now regularly seen sitting
on his owner's shoulder or head in the north Norfolk countryside.

Owner Kat Tate said Siren was often taken to events or schools to educate people
about birds, but with those cancelled, she said he was "bored".

She has had the bird for a year, as the North Norfolk News reported.

Kookaburras are known as "laughing kookaburras" because of their distinctive call,

which has been described by Sir David Attenborough as a "maniacal cackle".

Siren's parents were both captive-bred in the UK, and she has had him since he was
about eight weeks old, Miss Tate, who works at a wildlife rescue charity, told the
BBC.

"Kookaburras are native to Australia but are a member of the kingfisher family, so as
we obviously can't have a native kingfisher, Siren is used as an educational bird to
teach people and children about them," she said.

"He absolutely loves that, but now everything's cancelled he's just really bored, so he
enjoys coming out for a walk with me and the two dogs."

"He absolutely loves that, but now everything's cancelled he's just really bored, so he
enjoys coming out for a walk with me and the two dogs."

With its distinctive "laughing" call, the bird often stops traffic on his walk around
Walcott.

"With me and my green hair, a bird on my shoulder and two dogs, we must look quite
a sight, and people do stop to ask what sort of a bird he is," Miss Tate said.

Siren lives in a large aviary with several other birds, but it is often opened up to the
house and they all come inside.

"It can take a bit of cleaning, but Siren likes it best inside and sits on the sofa to watch
TV with us.
"He doesn't really like to fly very much, although he wears anklets and jesses when
we are out, for his own safety," she added.

EXERCISE 1

 Topic: Simple present tense

 Teaching Plan:

Activities Durations

Teacher asks to students their knowledge

about simple present tense before teacher
3 minutes
explains more about it.

Teacher gives the authentic material to

students.
3 minutes

Teacher does the teaching and learning

process, teacher explains about simple
20 minutes
present tense.

Teacher asks students to find at least 3

sentence that using simple present tense
15 minutes
in the authentic material that teacher
gives.

Teacher points every students to write 30 minutes

one sentence that student find in the
whiteboard.

The example :

 A woman takes her pet bird on her daily walk during the coronavirus
lockdown, as he is "bored" at home.

EXERCISE 2
  Topic : read aloud-plus
 Teaching Plan :

Activities Durations

Teacher gives the authentic material and 3 minutes

worksheet to students.

Teacher asks students to read-aloud plus

the authentic material that has been given
5 minutes
by teacher.

Teacher does the teaching and learning

process, teacher explains about read-
15 minutes
aloud plus.

Every students are asked to write in the

worksheet the difficult word that students
15 minutes
find in the authentic material

The answer will be collected to the 3 minutes

teacher before the class end.

Example the difficult word :

Obviously, distinctive call, etc.