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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 11,000 have died since 2008.

Most of what we know about the mountain gorilla 4 Write
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is thanks to American zoologist Dian Fossey.
She spent her life studying and protecting the Look at the pictures and the
mountain gorilla. She was the first person to get information and write a paragraph
close to them and she lived with them for about one of the endangered
twenty-two years. animals below.
The organisation Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund • Where do they live?
International started in 1978. Since then, it has Asia JAVAN
done a lot of research and saved many gorillas. • What do they eat? RHINOS
People can give money and can even adopt grass and fruit
a gorilla. Today, there are more than 1,000 • Why are they in danger?
mountain gorillas living safely in the forests of hunting
Central East Africa. • Why do people hunt
them?
for their horns
B. Read again and answer the questions. • What’s the

1. Why have some animals become endangered? population today?
2. Why do hunters kill mountain gorillas? around 70
3. How much can a male gorilla weigh?
4. What do gorillas eat? SUNDA TIGERS
5. What did Dian Fossey spend her life doing?
• Where do they live?
6. What can people do to help protect the
Asia
mountain gorillas?
tip • What do they eat?
other animals
When reading a text in English, you will probably
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 people 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 less than 400
(the words around them). For clues, look at 5-10
words that come before and after the word you
are trying to understand. Javan rhinos are an endangered species.
They are grey with...
C. Guess the meaning of the highlighted words. They live...

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