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Using Transition Words to Connect Ideas in a Paragraph
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using transition words to connect ideas within a paragraph. They provide examples and guide students through a practice exercise to revise their own writing. The video emphasizes the...
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Using Each Sentence to Provide New Information in Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use each sentence to provide new information to their readers. They use the example of writing about sharks to illustrate the concept of paragraphs and grouping related information. The...
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Alarm over frog populations in the Caribbean as scientists report steep decline
1. Wide of Professor Rafael Joglar, biologist at the University of Puerto Rico walking down path going out in search of frogs in San Juan
2. Joglar walking with flashlight searching for frogs in vegetation AUDIO: frogs calling
3. Wide of...
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Japan - Waste transformed into fish food
In Sapporo, Hokkaido, northern Japan, 150 organizations including restaurants, hotels, schools and food processing plants have joined in a venture to make fish food out of kitchen waste. The main unit of the processing plant is known as...
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NEW Giant new Panda habitat opens at National Zoo
AP Television
Washington D.C, 11th October 2006
1. Asia trail sign
2. Panda against tree medium
3. Panda against tree wide
4. Wide of panda area
5. Panda eating
6. Pan in to Panda in tree
7. Panda climbing up tree
8. SOUNDBITE (English)...
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Educators at the Rome Zoo are helping children separate fact from fiction when it comes to snakes and other mysterious reptiles.
HEADLINE: Rome Zoo tackles reptile fears
CAPTION: Educators at the Rome Zoo are helping children separate fact from fiction when it comes to snakes and other mysterious reptiles. (Jan. 31)
SLUG: Italy Snakes
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] ...
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Juice blend made with Peru's Lake Titicaca frog believed to have medicinal properties
Frogs from Peru's Lake Titicaca are the main ingredient in a juice blend that is revered by some Andean cultures for having the power to cure asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and a low sex drive.
The mixture is sold at some juice stands...
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See the endangered "human fish" in its natural habitat
Have you ever seen an olm?
Well, here it is.
Looking like a pink snake with four small legs and two tiny red gills, the olm is an extremely rare creature that lives in subterranean waters.
The blind salamander can be found at the...
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Axolotl salamanders spotted in lake calming fears they may have disappeared
Mexico's salamander-like axolotls have been spotted in the waters of the Xochimilco lake, calming scientists' fears that they may have disappeared from the wild.
The creature, with its slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls...
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Blended frog juice believed to cure numerous ailments and conditions
Frogs from Peru's Lake Titicaca are the main ingredient in a juice blend that is revered by some Andean cultures for having the power to cure asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and a low sex drive.
The mixture is sold at some juice stands...
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Many people Peru have long believed that drinking a juice made of whole, raw, blended frogs cures a wide range of ailments, but doctors are cautious of the claims. (Nov. 17)
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cecilia Cahuana, customer who enjoys frog juice
"I always come to drink frog juice here because it's good for the children, for anemia, bronchitis and also for older persons
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Tomy Villanueva,...
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Detroit Zoo’s Own Dr. Ruth Is Amphibian Sexpert
THE DETROIT ZOO WOULD LIKE TO SEE TOADS HANG AROUND AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.SOUNDBITE: Dr. Ruth Marcec, Detroit Zoo (partially covered):"It is very much a crisis. It's actually nicknamed 'the amphibian extinction crisis.'"WHICH IS WHY IT...
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Lungless amphibian discovered in remote part of country
1. Wide exterior of School of Life, Sciences and Technology
2. Scientist at School of Life, Sciences and Technology, Djoko Iskandar, working
3. Mid of frogs in jar
4. Djoko taking frog out of jar
5. Various of Djoko measuring frog
6....
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RR0241/C Hawaii: Frogs
Aerials of Big Island, Hawaii; crater of Kilauea Volcano; steam rising from ocean as lava hits water; night time shots of molten lava spreading across road; aerials of rain forest; Coqui frog sitting on eggs; Coqui frog; Coqui frog...
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Museum presents natural history exhibition alongside major art works
This week, Madrid's Prado Museum presents a curious series of installations juxtaposing the museum's major art works with the original idea for the building's use as a natural history museum.
When it was commissioned by Charles III in...
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Volunteers attempt to halt toad numbers declining
In South Africa, Western Leopard Toad numbers have been in sharp decline over the past twenty years.
But in Cape Town a community of volunteers is hoping by transporting the toads from their gardens and swimming pools to designated...
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Animal review 2009
Kenya''s 2,000 lions are at grave risk from repeated drought and a poisonous pesticide that wildlife officials have blamed for 76 lion deaths since 2001.
In what has now become competition between man and beast for pastures, Maasai...
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UK animal smuggling threat to reptiles
AP Television
Broadford, Isle of Skye, UK - July 15, 2011
1. Various snakes at serpentarium
2. Mid shot conservationist speaking to visitors
3. Various Mangrove Monitor lizard
4. Alex Shearer in cage with mangrove monitor lizard
5....
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Mexico's so-called water monsters, as the Axolotl salamanders are known, have been spotted in the waters of the Xochimilco lake, calming scientists' fears that they may have disappeared.
Mexico's so-called water monsters, as the Axolotl salamanders are known, have been spotted in the waters of the Xochimilco lake, calming scientists' fears that they may have disappeared.
The admittedly ugly creature has a slimy tail,...
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US Army Airmen Bring Down Enemy In Target Practice
342 USAF 23772 Reel 1- The Army Air Corps and Civilian Aviation in the Newsreels, B/W Sound 1935
01:16:38 Caption "Aviation"
01:16:40 Caption "US ARMY AIRMEN BRING DOWN ENEMY IN TARGET PRACTICE. "
01:16:49 Series of scenes...
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Rare frogs halt highway expansion
AP Television
Seropedica, Brazil, November 16, 2009
1. Mid shot frog Physalaemus soaresi on dry leaves
2. Pan of pond
3. Pan of Urophyla eucalyptus trees to bark of eucalyptus tree
4. Billboard sign on highway with passing cars reading:...
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Frogs star of the show in New York
June 4, 2009 New York City
1. Tight shot of Amazon Milk frog native to French Guiana, Brazil and Ecuador
2. Tight shot of green and black poison frog native to Nicaragua and Columbia
3. Mid shot of Frogs display
4. Tight shot of vials...