"The rolling hills of the Zambales mountain ranges extended several kilometres to the east and the north. The air was filled with the sounds of birds chirping, water gushing from the mountains, leaves rustling in the wind, and cicadas singing."
This is a passage from "A Lost Dream," an article in the June issue of 2011 Reader's Digest. Reading it, students learn verbs to express different kinds of sounds one may hear in nature. The following is a website for more sound expressions.
http://esl.about.com/od/vocabularyreference/a/sounds.htm
In the same article, when describing the scene after a volcano eruption, the author wrote:
"...rows and rows of collapsed houses, toppled electricity posts and communcation towers, crumpled signboards, fallen trees, overturned water tanks--all under a thick layer of ash fall. People, too, were covered in ash as they retrieve whatever could be saved from their crushed houses, and lined up for clean drinking water and relief goods."
In this passage, readers learn adjectives to describe disaster-stricken areas.
Yes. This is the power of reading. It supplies us with more vocabulary words we can use in speaking or writing.
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