Below is an excerpt. What sort of tone would you use if you were to read it aloud to the class? Serious or lighthearted? Why?
One of the deadliest animals in the ocean is an octopus no bigger than a golf ball—the blue-ringed octopus of the southern Pacific
Ocean. Although it feeds off small crabs, shrimp and wounded fish, it has neuromuscular paralyzing venom powerful enough to
kill an adult human with just one little nibble.