Reading 2: Claudia's Bird Board

Reading 2: Claudia's Bird Board

homemade (adj.)

made at home and not bought from a shop

• Try one of these homemade cookies. They're delicious.

• a bowl of homemade soup

saw (n.)

a tool that you use for cutting wood. It has a flat blade with an edge cut into many V shapes.

• All you hear now is the buzzing of those saws.

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file (v.)

a metal tool with a rough surface that you rub on something to make it smooth

• File the sawn edges to make them smooth.

edge (n.)

the thin sharp part of a blade or tool that cuts

• a knife with a sharp edge

drill (n.)

a tool or machine used for making holes in something

• an electric drill

• a whine like a dentist's drill

craft (n.)

a job or activity in which you make things with your hands, and that you usually need skill to do

• arts and crafts

• traditional rural crafts

attempt (v.)

an act of trying to do something, especially something difficult

• Someone had attempted to open the car door.

• They are attempting to become the first to climb Everest without oxygen tanks.

fold (v.)

to bend a piece of paper, cloth, etc by laying or pressing one part over another

• Fold the paper along the dotted line.

• It'll fit in if you fold it in half.

upside down (adv.)

with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top

• To get the plant out of the pot, turn it upside down and give it a gentle knock.

• You're holding the book upside down.

flatten (v.)

to make something flat or flatter, or to become flat or flatter

• Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough.

• Place the balls of cookie dough on a baking sheet, and flatten each one with your hand.