1. Pictures from Around the World: April 5th
Workers rest on a pile of limes at a wholesale
fruit market in Hyderabad, India, on March
26.
Many laborers in India pick limes as a way to
make ends meet.
Vocabulary:
wholesale
laborers vs workers vs employees
make ends meet
Question:
Are there wholesale markets where you live?
Do you enjoy shopping at markets?
With floodwaters rising inside her home in
Belarus, on March 27, Nina Yaroshevich puts
on rubber boots to make her way around. A
nearby river flooded some 150 homes.
Vocabulary:
floodwaters
rubber
Questions:
Have you ever experienced a flood?
Do you have rubber boots for when it rains?
What type of clothes do you wear when it
rains?

2. Farmers work their fields in Jinji, a town in
southwest China's Yunnan Province, on
March 30. Drought across China's south has
meant harvests much smaller than normal.
Vocabulary:
drought
Questions:
Have you heard a lot about this problem?
What are your thoughts about this drought?
Children carry water home on a mountain
path in southwest China's Guizhou province
on March 28. The worst drought in decades
in southwest China has left millions of people
without water and caused more than 1,000
schools to close.
Vocabulary:
path
decades
Question:
Do you think this drought has caused a bad
situation for children?
Frogs in Hrase, Solvenia, get help in crossing
the road from volunteers on March 25. The
group organizes events throughout the year
to help frogs and says 15,000 frogs were
helped across roads over the previous three
days.
Vocabulary:
crossing
Questions:
Do you have frogs where you live?
Would you volunteer to help frogs cross the
road?
Why do you think they do this in Solvenia?

3. Children examine a sculpture made from
Easter eggs at its unveiling at the cathedral
in Kiev, Ukraine. The sculpture, created by a
Ukrainian artist, is made from 3,000 wooden
Easter eggs painted in traditional Ukrainian
style.
Vocabulary:
examine
sculpture
unveiling
Easter eggs
Questions:
Do you celebrate easter?
Is easter always associated with religion?
Master baker Fernando Padilla prepares a
display of seasonal sculpted bread shaped
like bunnies for Easter at Boudin at the Wharf
in San Francisco on April 2. The historic
Fisherman's Wharf bakery will be making the
bunny sculpted bread through Easter.
Vocabulary:
seasonal
sculpted
historic
Questions:
Are you a good cook or baker?
Do you buy fresh bread from a bakery?