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ffi Describe the photo. What do you thinl<the @ Fox-ftunting@
people are doing?

,&. f ,e Read the text. Match the headings (1-5)
with paragraphs A-C. There are two headings that
you do not need.
1 A country divided 4 The future offox hunts
2 A royal sport 5 The history of hunting
3 The end of fox huntsr

![![[@s Find these words highlighted in the text. Use
them to complete the sentences below.

ban cruel damage ecsnsmy illegat law sut-dated
respect upper-ctass
7 You shouldn't hurt animats - it's
2 ln the past, only families could afford to have
holidays abroad.
My dad doesn't want my sister to become a pitot. He has
very views about jobs for women! kings and their families hunted deer. In the 1800s, fox-
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Tourism is good for a town's . Tourists spend hunting became more popular. The hunters used groups of . ...
a lot of money! :t.ll dogt to chase the foxes while thqy followed on horses. They,,::,:{
wore special clothes for hunting: bright jackets - usually
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5 You can't steatthings. lt's against the red - black boots and black hats. This tradition continued
6 He hit a tree and did a tot of to his car.
:...1;i'through the 1800s and 1900s, especially in rural areas.
7 When you're visiting a foreign country, you should ;,1
its customs and traditions. -. trl-l Howeve4 many people in the UK were unhappy
8 It's to drive without a licence. about the tradition of fox-hunting. It was especialiy
9 The government is going to ..- smoking in unpopular among people who lived in cities. They thought
it was a cruel and out-dated activity and argued that it
pubtic buitdings.
'is wrong to kill animals for fun. The government agreed,
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: 1,34 Listen to four teenagers talking about hunting. and on 15 September 2004, they made a new law to ban
, hunting with dogs. The traditional fox hunts had to stop.
Who agrees and who disagrees with the ban?
They were now illegal.
a Olivia b Rory c Jake d Christine
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)' t,3r* Listen again. Match two opinions with each l, ,CTl Some people in the countryside feel very strongly
. that the hunting ban is unfair. They argue that the
speaker. Write O, R, I or C.
l, ,gevernment stopped the hunts only because they disliked
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1 Kitting animats for fun is always wrong.
upper-class rural traditions.
2 Peopte from towns don't understand rural traditions. -i--, -- -, -
rhgY say that:
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3 Fishing is just as crueI as fox-hunting.
::LlLi,,,6o"ut eat farm animals so farmers need help to protect
4 Hunting damages fields and hedges.
their animals.
5 We should respect traditiona[ activities even if only
o in the countryside, 60% of people want fox-hunting.to
a few people do them.
continue. We should respect rural traditions, and not
6 Other ways of kitting foxes are cruelter than hunting.
allow people from cities to stop them.
7 Onty very rich people are interested in hunting.
, fox hunts created jobs for people, so the ban does a lot
8 ln the past, people didn't care about animaI rights,
of damage to the ecrinomy in the countryside.
but they do now.
Some people even try to continue the tradition of hunting
ffiffiqryffi Work in pairs. Tellyour partner whether by using dogs and horses to chase a sock with a special
you agree or disagree with the opinions in exercise 5. smell, but it isn't the same.
Give reasons where possible. So, which is more importadt: respecting'a rural tradition,6q,
protecting foxes? It's still a question that divides town and
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