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UNIT 5 Lesson 3: Living with Gorillas
1. Look at the pictures. What can you see?
A B C D
2. Read the text. What is it about?
Dian Fossey was born in the USA in 1932. When she was young she loved animals. She
started riding horses when she was six years old. In 1963, she travelled to Africa. She saw
flamingos in Tanzania and travelled to Uganda, where she saw her first mountain gorillas.
She returned to the USA, but she didn’t stay there. In 1966, she went back to Africa and
in 1967 she set up a centre in Rwanda to help the gorillas. She spent 19 years studying
gorillas and she stopped people hunting them. Then in 1985, some angry hunters shot and
killed her.
Three years later, a movie was made about her amazing life.
3. Read the text again. Answer the questions.
A What did Dian Fossey do when she was six?
B When did she go to Africa?
C What did she see in Tanzania?
D Where did she see her first mountain gorillas?
E How long did she spend studying mountain gorillas?
F What happened in 1985?
What did she see in Tanzania?
Look!
She saw flamingos. She didn’t see mountain gorillas.
4. Ask and answer questions about Dian Fossey.
What did she do
when she was six?
She did…
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