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3 Listen 

Listen to a TV programme about
endangered species and write E for
Elephant, Z for Zebra or R for Rhino.

1. Tourists are a problem for them.
2. They can be very dangerous.
3. They get scared easily.

4. They are as heavy as four cars.
5. They used to live all over Africa.
6. Over 60,000 have died since 1970.
A gorilla can live about thirty-five years in the wild.
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Most of what we know about the mountain gorilla 4 Write
is thanks to American zoologist Dian Fossey.
She spent her life studying and protecting the Look at the pictures and the
information and write a paragraph
mountain gorilla. She was the first person to get about one of the endangered
close to them and she lived with them for animals below.
twenty-two years.
• Where do they live?
In 1978, the organisation Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Africa and Asia CHEETaHS
International started. Since then, it has done a • What do they eat?
lot of research and saved many gorillas. People large animals (mostly antelopes)
can give money and you can even adopt a gorilla. • Why are they in danger?
Today, there are about 1,000 mountain gorillas hunting, people destroy
living safely in the forests of Central East Africa. their habitat

• Why do they hunt them?
B. Read again and answer the questions.
for their fur
1. Why have some animals become endangered? • What’s the population today?
2. Why do hunters kill mountain gorillas? about 7,000
3. How much can a male gorilla weigh?
4. What do gorillas eat? GiaNT PaNDaS
5. What did Dian Fossey spend her life doing?
6. What can people do to help protect the • Where do they live?
mountain gorillas? Western China
tip • What do they eat?
bamboo, grass, sometimes
When reading a text in English, you will probably small animals
have unknown words. First, decide which of the • Why are they in danger?
words are key words. These are words which hunting, people destroy their habitat
are important for you to understand. Ignore the
low-frequency words which appear only once • Why do they hunt them?
or twice and do not affect your understanding for their fur
of the text. Focus on the key words and try to • What’s the population today?
guess what they mean by looking at the context about 1,864
(the words around them). For clues, look at 5-10
words that come before and after the word you
are trying to understand.
Cheetahs are an endangered species.
They are yellowish brown with...
They live...
C. Guess the meaning of the highlighted words.
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