Project:Sandbox

BIRDS

(a) CATEGORY
 * creatures [m] of one kind

WITH SUB-CATEGORIES
 * there are many kinds of such creatures [m]

(b) MAIN FEATURES
 * creatures [m] of all these kinds have wings [m], there are many many feathers [m]
 * on [m] the wings [m]
 * when they are very small, their bodies are inside eggs [m]
 * when people think about them, they often think like this: “they can fly [m]”

(c) WHERE THEY LIVE
 * many kinds of such creatures [m] live in places above the ground [m], often
 * they are flying [m], sometimes they are in trees [m]
 * some kinds live in places where there is much water [m], sometimes they are flying [m],
 * sometimes they are on the water [m]
 * some kinds, not many, live in places on the ground [m]

(d) SIZE
 * many kinds of these creatures [m] are small, some kinds are very small
 * some kinds are big, some (not many) are very big

(e) BODY

handle each part separately
 * the bodies of these creatures [m] are not like the bodies of creatures [m] of other kinds
 * their bodies are like this:

– head
 * – one part of their bodies is like people’s heads [m]
 * two parts are like people’s eyes [m], one of them is on one side of the head [m], the other one is
 * on the other side of the head [m]

– beak/bill
 * – they don’t have a part like people’s nose [m], they don’t have a part like people’s mouth [m]
 * in the place where these parts of people’s face [m] are, these creatures [m]
 * have another part, it is not like any part of people’s body
 * it has two parts, they are hard [m], one of them is above the other one

– legs
 * – two other parts of their bodies are like people’s legs [m]

– tail
 * – one part of their bodies is not like any part of people’s bodies
 * this part is at the back [m] of the body

- male and female
 * – these creatures [m] can have bodies of two kinds,
 * like people can have bodies of two kinds
 * there can be eggs [m] inside the bodies of creatures [m] of one of these two kinds

(f) BEHAVIOUR
 * many kinds of these creatures [m] can fly [m], some (not many) can’t fly [m]
 * these creatures [m] eat [m] very small things
 * some of these very small things are living creatures [m], some are not living creatures [m]

(g) SOUNDS
 * many kinds of these creatures [m] often do something like people do with their mouths [m]
 * when they want to say something
 * people can hear something because of this
 * sometimes when people hear it, they can know what kind of creature [m] it is, sometimes they can think:
 * “this is like singing [m]”