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Culture 4 South Africa – Wildlife

Reading Speaking
Your culture
1 3.42 Read about South Africa. What are 3 In pairs, answer the questions.
the ‘Big Five’? 1 Which animals do you like?
2 3.42 Read about South Africa again. 2 Which animals are popular in your country?
Answer the questions. 3 Are some animals becoming extinct in your
country?
1 Which are the most dangerous animals in
South Africa?
2 Which animal spends more than 15 hours a 4 Write a short paragraph about animals in your
country. Use your answers to Exercise 3 and
day resting?
3 Which animal doesn’t live in big groups and the ‘Big Five’ examples to help you.
lives in different environments?
4 Which of the five animals eats grass?
5 Which animal is becoming extinct?

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4 2 Leopard
Wildlife: The ‘Big Five’ Leopards live alone. They can run at 58 kilometres
an hour and they are very good swimmers
and climbers. They live in many different
South Africa is home to 299 types of mammal environments from the desert to the forest.
and over 850 types of bird. There are 20
national parks in South Africa. These parks 3 Lion
protect wild animals, plants and natural Lions weigh around 250 kilograms. They are
environments. Many people visit these parks very social and live in groups called ‘prides’.
to go on safari and see the animals. The most They relax for around 20 hours a day!
famous animals in South Africa are the ‘Big
4 Elephant
Five’ – the buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion
5 African elephants are four metres tall and weigh
and rhinoceros. They are some of the most about 6.5 tons. They eat about 300 kilograms of
impressive animals in South Africa but also the plants every day. Elephants are very intelligent
most dangerous.
animals and have excellent memories.
1 Buffalo
5 Rhinoceros
Cape Buffalos are very dangerous animals.
The horns on a rhinoceros are very valuable.
They weigh around 900 kilograms and are Many people kill these animals to sell their
about 1.7 metres tall! They move in big groups
horns. In some places rhinos are almost
and eat a lot of grass.
extinct. Most rhinos weigh around one ton
and are very dangerous.

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