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WARM-UPS
1. ANIMALS IN DANGER: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about animals in danger. Change partners often and share your findings.
2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.
tortoises / symbol / dying out / habitat / conservationists / success story / survive / hunted / extinct / a few thousand / captivity / nap / uncomplicated / Galapagos Islands
3. ENDANGERED: How can we help these endangered things? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.4. HUNTING: Students A strongly believe people should stop hunting (unless they need food); Students Bstrongly believe hunting is OK. Change partners again and talk about your conversations.
Tortoises Rhinos Bluefin tuna Panda Bactrian camel Panamanian golden frog
5. CAUSES OF EXTINCTION: Rank these with your partner. Put the biggest reasons animals become extinct at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.
• hunting
• disease
• invasive species
• poaching• climate change
• natural causes
• deforestation
• acid rain
6. ANIMALS: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "animals". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.
BEFORE READING / LISTENING
1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
a. The article says tortoises were a symbol of the World Wildlife Fund. T / F b. There were just 15 giant Galapagos tortoises in the 1960s. T / F c. There are over 1,000 of the giant tortoises in the wild today. T / F d. A conservationist said the tortoises still need our help to survive. T / F e. There were a quarter of a million giant tortoises in the 1500s. T / F f. Giant tortoises often weigh over 300kg. T / F g. Giant tortoises can sleep for up to 16 hours a day. T / F h. A Galapagos island will soon get 400 tortoises. T / F 3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
1. symbol a. ruined 2 dying out b. set free 3. habitat c. dropped 4. released d. confinement 5. pretty e. disappearing 6. destroyed f. simple 7. fell g. environment 8. captivity h. quite 9. uncomplicated i. go on 10. continue j. emblem
1. tortoises used to be a symbol a. that were released 2 In the 1960s, b. 1,000 of them 3. eating their food and c. lives 4. There are over d. damaging their habitat 5. about half of the tortoises e. became extinct 6. used to live f. to 250 kg 7. they almost g. for endangered animals 8. Giant tortoises can weigh up h. "another success" 9. Tortoises also live very uncomplicated i. there were just 15 10. Gibbs is looking forward to j. all over the world
GAP FILL
Giant Galapagos tortoises used to be a (1) ____________ for endangered animals. In the 1960s, there were just 15 of the animals in existence. They were dying out because (2) ____________ goats were eating their food and damaging their habitat. This caused conservationists to take (3) ____________ to help them. Forty years later, the tortoises are doing (4) ____________. There are over 1,000 of them living and (5) ____________ in the wild. Scientists say it is a conservation success story. Conservationist James Gibb said: "What we (6) ____________ found over time is that about half of the tortoises that were (7) ____________ have survived." Mr Gibbs added: "That's actually pretty amazing." Gibbs said the tortoises can now (8) ____________ without human help. action
released
breeding
symbol
basically
survive
wild
wellGiant tortoises used to live all over the world. People (9) ____________ them and destroyed their (10) ____________, so they almost became extinct. Giant tortoise numbers fell from over 250,000 in the 16th century to just a few thousand in the 1970s. Giant tortoises can (11) ____________ up to 250 kg and can live in the (12) ____________ for over 100 years. One tortoise lived in (13) ____________ for more than 170 years. Wikipedia says: "Tortoises also live very (14) ____________ lives, and can nap up to 16 hours a day." Mr Gibbs said the conservation story in the Galapagos Islands would (15) ____________. Next year, a small island that lost all of its tortoises a few years ago will get 200 tortoises. Gibbs is looking forward to "another (16) ____________ ". wild
uncomplicated
success
habitat
continue
hunted
captivity
weigh
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