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1.1. Look at the pictures and mention all the animals you can see. What do you know about them?
| 1.2. Answer the questions: 1. Which of these are not in the pictures: golden toad, caribou, red panda, seal, rhinoceros, mandarin duck, roe deer, buffalo, elk, monitor? 2. Which of the wild animals / birds have you seen in your life? Where was it? In zoos? In national parks and reserves? In the wild? 3. Which of them are extant / extinct / on the brink of extinction? 4. Which of them are birds / beasts of prey / predators / raptors? 5. Which are the birds of passage / migrating birds? Wintering birds? Sedentary birds? 8. Which of them are carnivores? Herbivores / graminivorous? Omnivores? 9. Which birds and animals need our protection? Which can survive without our help? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1.3. Which of the following do you consider to be the most important factors of animal deaths? Rank them, then compare the list to your partner’s. ¨ hunting ¨ pollution ¨ rise of the sea level ¨ pesticides ¨ climate change ¨ ivory ¨ hunger ¨ fur and leather¨ poaching ¨ too light / mild punishment for breaking the law ¨ culinary likes ¨ agriculture ¨ weather conditions ¨ anthropogenic factor ¨ natural catastrophes ¨ melting glaciers ¨ horns and antlers ¨ great number of predators | 1.4. Listen to the person speaking about one of the factors influencing the number of animals. a. Answer the questions. What is the person speaking about? How can it influence the species population? What country does the speaker mention? Prove. How did this factor impact animals and plants? b. Listen again and fill in the gaps. 1. 2009 was an old-fashioned year in terms of _____________. 2. There were two ____________ spells of weather. 3. The male frogs jumped into the ponds enjoying ______________________________. 4. The weather did some good for __________. 5. In the middle of June the weather was _____. 6. The summer was ______________________. 7. It inflicted particularly _________________. 1.5. Discuss the quotations below. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. (Winston Churchill) We never miss the music until the sweet-voiced bird has flown away. (O. Henry) Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly. (Diogenes) |
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