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Conservation \NOrks Skills Reading: a magazine
article; Listening: an interview

QUICK REVIEW Plans, hopes and
ambitions Write one thing you: are
thinking of doing tonight, are looking
forward to, are hoping to do next year,
are planning to do soon. Work in pairs.
Tell your partner your ideas. Ask
follow-up questions. Our wildlife reporter
Kathryn Miller travels
to Uganda to meet some
Reading and Speaking mountain gorillas - and
discovers an environmental
Work in groups. Discuss these questions.
success story.
1 Have you ever been to a wildlife park or
a zoo? If so, what was it like? We hear stories about the
2 Where do people go in your country to see disappearing natural world
wildlife? Which animals can you see there? all the time. 1 kmZ of rainforest

3 Have you ever seen animals in the wild? is cut down every three minutes
If so, which ones? If not, which animals and 100 species of plants, insects and
would you like to see? animals become extinct every day. It's all very
worrying - but sometimes there's good news too.
a Before you read, check these words
One important success is the mountain gorilla, which lives in the
with your teacher.
rainforests of Central Africa. Twenty years ago there were only 350
cut down a species gorillas left in the wild and their mountain home was disappearing fast.
exti net disappear But thanks to organisations like the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),
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there are now over 700 gorillas in the wild and the rainforests where they
live are national parks. One reason why gorillas haven't become extinct
b Read the article. Answer these is, surprisingly, tourism. Every year tourists spend $3 million on visiting
questions.
national parks in Uganda and Rwanda and another $17 million on food,
1 Where do mountain gorillas live?
transport and accommodation. This gives local people a reason to protect
2 Why are the gorillas a 'good news the gorillas and their forest homes.
story'?
3 Did Kathryn enjoy the first day of her
holiday? Why? /Why not?

c Read the article again. Find these • HELP WITH VOCABULARY Verbs and prepositions
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numbers in the article. What do they
describe? Verbs and prepositions often go together. Look at the verbs in bold
• in the article. Then fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions .
a 1 km 2 •
• 1 hear (a story) about something
b 100 •
: 2 spend money something
c 350
• 3 fly a place
d 700 •
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• 4 pay an amount of money something
e $3 million •
: 5 go a trip a place
f $17 million
• 6 look something you want to find
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g £2,000 •
• 7 take photos somebody or something
h seven •
: a spend time somebody
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: 9 go back the place where you started
98.4% •
• 10 talk a topic
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d Work in pairs. Compare answers. •
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Which facts do you think are •
surprising?
Work in pairs. Student A p103. Student B p109.