CBC Video - B.C. Sockeye Salmon Run Underway
Millions of sockeye heading upstream to spawn on British Columbia's Adams River. It's a sight that's drawing thousands of onlookers. 10/21/2014
heading upstream = going to their hometown.
spawn = to have babies.
onlookers = people looking at the fish.
Vocabulary
- sockeye salmon
- Adams River
- millions of sockeye
- thousands of onlookers
- jump
- swim
- make babies / spawn
- die
- heading upstream
- beautiful
- incredible
- brave
- considerable
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- the vocabulary that you said.
- other vocabulary that you know.
- new vocabulary.
- listen for longer expressions and sentences.
We Heard
- thousands of ____
- children: salmon die after they spawn.
- eggs are at the river bottom
- river bank
- every 4 years they return and spawn
- tour groups
- eco
- connecting to the earth
- closing the circle
- the beginning of ____
- for many businesses
- found a dead one and saw the inside = “That’s cool!”
- millions of sockeye
- returning home
- before the season ends
- renewal of life
- end of life
- Lives are beginning and ending
- In spectacular fashion.
- This year marks a high point in...
- A chance to witness an event unlike any other on earth.
- Once they...now they...
- The river bank
- A salmon run = the salmon returning to their home river to spawn.
- A lot of raw power
- Millions were expected but only a fraction actually arrived
- For many visitors here, it's a chance to reflect.
- I find it really inspirational.
- repeating itself a million times over.
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