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Skills

Reading

1 Read the article and put the pictures in the correct order.

Helping lions in Africa

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Alicia Carlson does research in the lion sleep, not kill it. She are by measuring them and
the African wilderness. She is has to shoot very carefully. If she checking their teeth. When she
helping to protect lions and keep misses, the lion will run away. If has measured the lion, she takes
them healthy so they won’t die she hits it in the wrong place, the a blood sample, so that she can
out. Let’s follow her and see what lion won’t sleep and could be very check the lion for illness. This
she does! dangerous! will help her if any of the lions
become sick or die.
First, Alicia must try to find some After that, Alicia has to cover
lions by following a radio signal. the lion’s eyes. She uses an old Finally, she must give the lion
She drives around for a long time T-shirt. The lion is sleeping, but an injection* to wake it up. She
listening for a signal. When she its eyes are open. She covers waits in her vehicle until the lion
hears a ‘beep’, she follows it at its eyes to help it to keep quiet, gets up. She wants to make sure
once. This takes a long time and otherwise it might wake up too that the lion is safe. When the
it is difficult, but fortunately, she quickly. lion walks away, Alicia can leave.
is very experienced. Sometimes Then she measures the lion Another day’s work is done!
she is with a ranger who can help to see how much it has grown
her, but often she is on her own.
since she last checked it. She
Next, she must shoot the lion with keeps information about all the *injection = when someone puts a
a special gun. This gun will make lions. She can tell how old they drug into a body using a needle

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