Simone Bosich

Albatross

With the wingspan of about 3,5 metres the Albatross is one of the largest sea birds in the world.

Albatross is a name for the excellent flying skills as well as the difficult that they have to take off and glanding.

Albatross spends all the time in the sea or in the air, they return to the cost only for help their young or court mate.

Albatross is care for their young for close of four years, which is why most types lay eggs every other year.

The male arrives to the coast a few day before the female, he attracts the female one with greeting practices.

Albatross eat mainly squid, but they eat also crowd and fish. There are more than twenty kind of albatrosses and when they are court, they can from dun or black and white.

Glossario

Stress: In a medical or biological context stress is a physical, mental, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension. Stresses can be external (from the environment, psychological, or social situations) or internal (illness, or from a medical procedure).

To desire: to want to do something, especially strongly.

Port: a town or an area of a town next to water where shipsarrive and leave from

Sea: the saltywater that covers a largepart of the surface of the earth, or a largearea of saltywater, smaller than an ocean, that is partly or completelysurrounded by land

Yacht: a boat with sails and sometimes an engine, used for either racing or travelling on for pleasure

Phoenix: in ancientstories, an imaginarybird that set fire to itself every 500 years and was born again, rising from itsashes (= the powderleft after itsbody has been burned)

Albatross: a largewhitebird with long, strongwings that lives near the sea, foundespecially in the areas of the Pacific and South Atlantic oceans

Curiosity:an eagerwish to know or learn about something

To look:   to directyoureyes in order to see

Beard: the hair that some men allow to grow on the lowerpart of theirface

Moustache: hair that a man grows above his upperlip

Pensive: thinking in a quiet way, often with a seriousexpression on yourface

Nostalgia: a feeling of pleasure and also slightsadness when you think about things that happened in the past

Self-confident: behavingcalmly because you have no doubts about yourability or knowledge

Solitude: the situation of being alone without other people

Verbi onomatopeici

to knock—bussare

to bang—scoppiare

to clap—applaudire

to yawn—sbadigliare

to buzz—ronzare

to splash--schizzare