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3 Grammar

Past Progressive
A: Were you watching TV yesterday at 8.00?
B: No, I was playing a board game with my brothers.
Past Simple vs Past Progressive
Time clauses (when, while, as, as soon as)
In 1978, Dian Fossey started an Sue was making a salad while Kevin was cooking.
organisation which is now called Dian Alison was watching TV when her friend arrived.
Fossey Gorilla Fund International. As I was watering the plants, I saw a spider.
Since then, it has done a lot of As soon as I realised my mistake, I apologised to my friend.
research and saved many gorillas.
People can give money to the Fund Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past
Progressive of the verbs in brackets.
and can even adopt a gorilla. Today,
there are about 1,000 mountain 1. As soon as I (hear) the good news,
gorillas living safely in the forests of I (call) my mother to tell her about it.
Central East Africa. 2. Jason (check) his emails, when he
(notice) something interesting.
B. Read again and answer the 3. While they (hunt) in the forest, one of
questions.
the men (break) his leg.
1. Why have some animals 4. Amanda (make) a fire while Kevin
become endangered?
2. Why do hunters kill mountain (put up) the tent.
gorillas?
3. How much can a male gorilla Listen to a TV programme about
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endangered species and write E for
4. What do gorillas eat? Elephant, Z for Zebra or R for Rhino.
5. What was Dian Fossey doing 1. Tourists are a problem for 4. They are as heavy
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When reading a text in
Look at the pictures and the information and
English, you will probably 5 Write Look at the pictures and the information and
have unknown words. First, write a paragraph about one of the endangered
animals below.
decide which of the words
are key words. These are CHEETAHS GIANT PANDAS
words which are important
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which appear only once or • What do they eat? • What do they eat?
bamboo, grass,
large animals (mostly
twice and do not affect your large animals (mostly sometimes small
understanding of the text. antelopes) animals
Why are they in danger?
Focus on the key words and • Why are they in danger? • Why are they in danger?
try to guess what they mean hunting, people destroy hunting, people destroy their
by looking at the context their habitat habitat
(the words around them). • Why do they hunt them? • Why do they hunt them?
For clues, look at 5-10 words for their fur for their fur
that come before and after • What’s the population today? • What’s the population today?
about 7,000
about 1,864
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understand.
Cheetahs are an endangered species.
C. Guess the meaning of the They are yellowish brown with...
highlighted words.
They live...
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