PassageAbeforereadingActivity1WhatishappeningtoourMotherEarth?SquaredanceendangeredspeciesTibetanAntelopeSiberiantigerYangtzeriverdolphinVocabularybankClimatechange:Completethesentenceswiththeappropriatewords.LOOKATTHETITLEOFTHEPASSAGEANDPREDICTWHATYOUAREGOINGTOREAD.Workingroupstoanswerthefollowingquestions.Narration1.Whatkindofwritingisthepassage?Isitanarration,anexpositionorargumentation?4.Whathappenedtotheauthorandthefrog?5.Whatdoesthestoryimplytoyou?Mainidea:Iappealtoeveryonetotakeaction.WisconsinWisconsinisastateinthenorthcentralUnitedStates.Itstotalareais169,642sqkm.ThenameofthestatecomesfromanIndianwordthatmaymean“gatheringofthewaters”or“placeofthebeaver”.ThecapitalisMadison.Wisconsinranks18thinpopulation(5,169,677by1997estimate)amongthe50statesandisanimportantstateintermsofthevalueofitsmanufacturing.Wisconsinremainsaleadingdairystate,accountingforabout14%(1999)ofU.S.milkand27%(1999)ofthenation’soutputofcheese.DespiteWisconsin’smanylakes,ponds,andrivers,drought―especiallyinsummer―canbeaseriousproblem.Para1-2Para.1-2Para3-4Para.3-4Para5-7Para.5-7Para8-10AsIlookedathim,deadon,hiseyeslookeddirectlyatmeandIheardatone.Thetoneseemedtohitmerightinthecenterofmymind.Itsoundedverynearlylikethesameoneasmycomputer.InthattoneIcouldhearhim“say”tome,“BecauseIwantyoutounderstand”.Yo.Thatwasweird.“Understandwhat?”mymindjumpedin.Then,afteramomentoffeelingthiscommunication,IfeltIunderstoodwhyhewasthere.Icametounderstandthatfrogssimplywanttohearotherfrogsandtocommunicate.Possiblythetoneofmycomputersoundedtohimlikeothertreefrogs.Interesting.Ikeptworking.Iwasworkingonastoryaboutglobalclimatechangeandhadjustreceivedafaxfromafriend.Thefaxsaidthattheearthwaswarmingat1.9degreeseachdecade.AtthatrateIknewthatthemapletreesthatIlovetotapeachspringforsyrupwouldnotsurviveformychildren.MybeautifulWisconsinwouldbecomeaprairiebythenextgeneration.Para11-13AtthatmomentTreeFrogleapedacrossmyfootandsatonthefloorinfrontofmycomputer.Hethenreacheduphishandtohisleftearandcuppeditt