REPORT TEXT - SOME EXAMPLES

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1. Thunder Lightning

Thunder Lightning is a sudden, shocked, and very fast electric force between the cloud and ground, or between clouds. The speed of  thunder can be several miles long. It is so hot, with average temperatures of 34,000 ° Celsius, that cause surrounding air suddenly expanding with a loud explosion and sounds. This is why sometimes we can hear thunder. The most dangerous type of cloud caused by lightening is called cumulonimbus. 

When the cloud rises high enough, the moisture freezes and creates crystal ices and snowflakes. It began to fall, pushing the rain on the way down. This is more humid, rainy air, and it is the friction between those who generate static electricity. When the cloud is fully charged with electricity, it will burst as a flash of lightning. So lightning suddenly appears before the rain and the sounds are very loud.

 

 

2.     Football Play

Football is a game played by two teams of eleven. They try to score by kicking or heading the ball into the other team’s goal. Ten of the players can’t use their hands. The goal keeper can handle the ball to stop it going into the goal.

Games similar to football have been played for many centuries. The rules of the games were written down in 1863. In England, the FA (Football Association) cup was first played for in 1872. In the same year, England played Scotland in the first game.

Today the most important International Competition is the World Cup which takes place in every four years. Brazil and Italy have each won the world cup three times. The next World Cup will be held this year in Russia.

3. Komodo Dragon

Komodo dragon is the largest lizard. It lives in the scrub and woodland of a few Indonesian islands. Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg) but the average size of Komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg).

Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic. The Komodo dragon’s teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds, the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the Komodo dragon’s saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on. This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss.

4. Penguins

Penguin is a bird that cannot fly, they are more like aquatic animals, because they spend half of their time in the oceans and the other half on the land. Generally, they live in the Southern Hemisphere, but it doesn’t mean that they can live only in a cold place, because Penguins are also found in Galapagos Island, which consider to be a tropical area. There are 16 species of Penguin in the world, one of them is Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) which known as the largest Penguin.

Penguins have various body size depending on their species. The largest Penguin, The Emperor Penguin, can reach the size of 1,1 m with the weight of 35 kg or more. The smallest Penguin, the Little Blue Penguin, can reach the size of 40 cm and the weight of 1 kg. Some others species such as King Penguin, Gentoo Penguin, Magellanic Penguin and Yellow-eyed Penguin are vary between those sizes.

The head of a Penguin resemble the head of a bird with a beak in front of it and eyes on each side of the head. They have two wings that function as flippers which help them to swim. Their foot is similar to duck’s foot, this also support them in the water. They have a wide and short tail. The tail and wings help 

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