Read and complete Violet's presentation. Then listen and check. How doo Hello everyone. 1) Can I ask you all to close your
for a minute and picture this: the young ones are playing
climbing, rolling in the mud and having fun, while the
mothers relax close by, keeping an eye on them. When
are you? At a playground? No! You're on a mountam
Mountain gorillas are wonderful animals, but they cou
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So, let's see why
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Africa watching a group of amazing mountain gorille
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become extinct if we are not careful. There are only ab
700 of them left! 2)
things about these gentle giants. 3)
they were only discovered in 1902? They live in the thi
mountain rainforests of Africa, so they are quite well-hida
from the world. Mountain gorillas look scary, but really they are very gentle creatures who live toget
in families and are mostly vegetarian. The family has got a big, male leader, called a silverback
Silverback looks after his family and will only become aggressive when he thinks his family is in dan
He's just a good dad!
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mountain gorillas might be in danger. Well, there's hunting for one thing. Hunters
the gorillas for food. They also chop off body parts to sell as souvenirs. That's disgusting!5)
the gorillas are in danger is that their homes are disappearing People are chopping down the te
in the rainforests for land, firewood and houses.
Today, people are working hard to protect mountain gorillas, their forests and their way of life ir
mountains. But why is this work so important? 6)
with something to think about.
Fossey, the famous scientist who studied mountain gorillas, once said: "The man who kills
animals today, is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow."
a) Cambridge is formed from a variety of institutions, isn't it?
b) All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, aren't they?
c) It does not have a main campus, does it?
d) The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, doesn't it?
e) Cambridge has educated many prominent scientists, politicians, lawyers,
philosophers, hasn't it?
f) There are 31 colleges with 18,271 students with 9,823 academic and
administrative staff members at Cambridge University, aren't there?
g) No college is as old as the university itself, isn't it?
h) Cambridge is now the only remaining United Kingdom university with female only colleges, isn't it?
1. Match the words with their definitions/ Соотнеси глагол со значением
1. go on + b) to continue without stopping;
2. go off + a) to become too bad to eat; to make a noise to warn about something;
3. go with + c) to be the right size, shape, or amount for a particular space
2. Write down English equivalents to the words/ Напиши английский эквивалент глагола
1. Подходить, соответствовать - TO GO WITH
2. Продолжаться - TO GO ON
3. Портиться, издавать громкий звук - TO GO OFF
3. Fill in the gaps with the correct particles/ заполни пропуски подходящей частицей
1. What color shirts go WITH brown corduroy pants?
2. I’ve set the alarm clock to go OFF at 7 am.
3. He went ON working until he was 91.
4. Don't eat that! I It's gone OFF!
4. Translate the following sentences/Переведи предложения
1. Когда купишь рыбу, положи ее сразу в холодильник, или она испортится.
When you buy some fish, put it immediately into the fridge or it’ll go off.
2. Эта рубашка не подходит к твоим брюкам. Переоденься.
This shirt don’t go with the your trousers. Go and get dressed!
3. Том продолжал рассказывать о своих приключениях, но его никто не слушал.
Tom went on speaking about his adventures but nobody was listening to him.
4. Когда грабители вошли в квартиру, сработала сигнализация.
When the robbers entered the apartment, the alarm went off.