Animals in Danger Stage 1

Before Reading chApters 7 And 8 while reading

1 In a national park visitors can see wild animals and

activities answers
birds.
Before reading activities (page 44) 2 An Italian king made a national park because he
Activity 1 before reading wanted to protect wild ibex there.
1 e 2 d 3 f 4 b 5 a 6 c 3 Many tourists come to Costa Rica to see its wild
animals.
Activity 2 before reading
4 Pollution from cars and factories is making problems
Open discussion. Encourage students to share their for many animals.
ideas about which of these animals are in danger 5 When Chinese people get richer, there are going to
(all of them) and what they might be in danger be more cars on China’s roads.
from. Encourage discussion of the situation in their 6 Jane Goodall learned about chimpanzees and other
own country, and the causes of danger for animals animals in East Africa
there. 7 There are only a few hundred gorillas in the world.
8 Animal charities work to protect animals in many
While Reading countries.
9 You can write to politicians about animals in danger
chApters 1 And 2 while reading in your country.
1 F 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 F 6 F 7 T 8 F 9 T
chApters 9 And 10 while reading

chApter 3 while reading 1 + f Sometimes an animal born in a zoo can go back

1 More animals are at risk now than in 1996. to its natural habitat later.
2 We get meat and milk from animals. 2 + c In a bad zoo the animals often get ill or die.
3 Many people want to know about the life of wild 3 + h In a good zoo the animals can look for and find
animals. their food.
4 Cows helped Jenner to solve the problem of 4 + g Jamaican boas were in danger of extinction but
smallpox. now there are lots of them in Jersey Zoo.
5 When we protect animals, we protect our world too. 5 + a Golden lion tamarins born in zoos now live in
their own habitat in Brazil.
chApters 4, 5 And 6 while reading
6 + e Nobody outside the Democratic Republic of
1 You can find tapirs in Panama, Chile, some Asian
Congo knew about okapis before 1901.
countries, and the Andes mountains.
7 + d Golden hamsters disappeared from Syria but a
2 They are disappearing because farmers are cutting
scientist found some in 1930.
down the trees on the mountains. Also people are
8 + b Nobody saw an ivory-billed woodpecker for
hunting them for food, to get the tapirs’ feet for
sixty years but people saw one – perhaps – in
medicine, or just because they like hunting.
2004.
3 They are in danger because people are not afraid to
hunt them now that there are no tigers.
4 Northern white rhinos do not have babies easily in
zoos.
5 There is too much noise in the river, so the Baijis
cannot hear ships. They cannot see well because of
the pollution in the water, and they cannot move
past the Three Gorges Dam.
6 There is a lot of pollution in the water, and there are
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a lot of dams across it.

7 A blue whale.
8 Their habitats are disappearing, and hunters take
them to sell in shops.
9 They cannot fly, so cats can catch them easily.
10 They are teaching them to follow little planes to
learn the way to their homes.

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 After Reading Activity 4 AFTER REAdIng
• Humans can be a danger to animals in many
different ways. Some people like to kill big animals
Activity 1 AFTER REAdIng
– not because they want to eat their meat, but
kakapos: 3, 9, 14, 16
because they like hunting. In some countries hunters
killer whales: 1, 6, 10, 13
kill big animals because they can make a lot of
okapis: 2, 4, 8, 12
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money this way. They sell the coats of tigers or the

rhinos: 5, 7, 11, 15
horns of rhinoceroses for thousands of dollars. And
Possible answers:
sometimes people want to buy animals for medicine.
• Kakapos are fat green and yellow birds. Cats are a
• When people build new roads or cities they cut
danger to them because they cannot fly, and there
down trees and take the land, so often animals
are less than a hundred of them in the world today.
lose their homes. Pollution from cars, planes, and
• Killer whales live in cold seas and they are from the
factories means dirty skies and dirty rivers. And
dolphin family. They can live for fifty years or more,
there are millions more people in the world every
but when pollution kills the fish, these animals die.
year. When more people arrive, where can the
• Okapis come from the Democratic Republic of
animals go? Humans make a lot of problems for
Congo, but nobody outside that country knew about
animals. Now we need to change our behaviour.
them before 1901. Their legs are black and white,
and their tongues are long and blue. Activity 5 AFTER REAdIng
• Rhinos cannot see very well, but they can run very Open answers.
fast. They have one or two horns and people want
their horns for medicine.
Activity 2 AFTER REAdIng

B E H A V I O U R Y E
E L U L A O K I N D W
C S M T C H A R I T Y
O O A S C N P F O O D
M E N K I F I S H U M
E X T I N C T D U R O
N Z A N E T T E N I U
T O N G U E W S T S N
I O O H A B I T A T T
N L A N D A L R L W A
P F A R M A D O R A I
P R O B L E M Y K Y N

1 The name of the place is Yellowstone National Park.

2 It is in North America.
3 People go there to see wild animals, and trees and
flowers.
Activity 3 AFTER REAdIng
1 Stop the pollution of rivers and the sea.
2 Do not wear clothes made from wild animals.
3 Do not buy medicine made from wild animals.
4 Leave some fish in the sea for dolphins and sharks.
5 Do not buy a wild parrot to have in your home.
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6 Ask politicians to make more national parks.

7 Give money to animal charities.
8 Walk or go by bicycle, not by car.
9 Eat less meat.
10 Visit good zoos and learn about animals.

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