A mystery sentence is going up on the board in a language nobody here studies.
Look at it. Share one quiet guess with a neighbour, or show a thumb if you spot anything familiar. Then we park it.
Your tools today are simple: lookalike words, word order, tiny words (like and / the), and checking a guess. After we build the toolkit, we come back and crack the sentence together.
Three sea creatures, and every card carries all five languages. Flip each card and tap to hear each coat. Notice which ones look almost the same from language to language. Those lookalikes are the tools you will need for the mystery sentence still waiting on the board.
Warm up the cousin-spotting muscle on animal pairs. Decide which pairs are true cousins, which only look alike, and which mean something else.
Every pair you sort is practice for the board. When the pairs are done, we will crack the mystery sentence together, word by word, still no writing yet.
Open your copy. Write the Portuguese sentence you decoded. Beside each word, write the short clue that unlocked it.
Sentence: O golfinho e o polvo nadam no oceano azul.
Model clues (use these ideas, or your own):
A clue can be a cousin word, a tiny grammar guess, or a check against English. You do not need a novel for each word; one short reason is enough.
Same three sea creatures, five language coats, but this time the job is different.
For golfinho, polvo, and the other sentence words you unlocked, look along the row and decide: which language coat would have helped most, and which would have helped least? Celebrate the cousins that cracked today's sentence, not a second full listen-through.
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