spider
part of speech
noun (spider, spiders)
meaning for a pupil
1) A spider is a small animal with 8 legs that spins webs of silk to catch insects. tree →
2) Spiders are not insects; they belong to a group called arachnids. tree →
3) Most spiders are harmless to people, but a few, like some in Australia, have a dangerous bite. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a counted animal with 8 legs, used in legs puzzles (spiders and beetles). In science: arachnids have 8 legs and 2 body parts; insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts; webs, predators and prey. In stories: «Charlotte's Web», «Incy Wincy Spider» (Itsy Bitsy Spider). Phrases: «spider's web», «spin a web».
examples
- A spider has 8 legs. tree →
- How many legs do 5 spiders have? tree →
- There are spiders and beetles with 70 legs. tree →
- She saw 3 spiders in the web. tree →
- A spider is not an insect because it has 8 legs. tree →
- The spider spun a web between two branches. tree →
- Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout. tree →
- In Australia, do not touch a redback spider. tree →
- "Good father Spider! please not to kill me. tree →
note
Countable: «a spider». A spider web or «spider's web». Maths: hides «8 legs each». Trap: a spider is not an insect; it has 8 legs, not 6. Safety: do not pick up spiders you do not know.
In the corpora
- Jumping spiders have two huge front eyes that see sharply and in colour, and they stalk and pounce instead of using webs.
- The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.
- Spiders make silk in glands in the abdomen and pull it out through spinnerets at the back end, not from wrists or legs.
- Not all spiders build round webs: some build funnels, sheets or tangles, and some build none at all.
- A spider has eight legs; an insect, such as a fly, has six.
Trees and pragmatics
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