Level: Upper-intermediate / B2
Vocabulary practice
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Another visit to the BBC's Power of Nature series. This video is called Salmon: Heart of the forest and it looks at how this fish helps the Great Bear Rainforest to survive.
Watch the video (four minutes long) and then answer the following questions:
1) What does the forest do to the air and water?
2) Which coast of Canada is the forest on?
3) Why do the salmon swim up the rivers and creeks?
4) Where do the bears eat the fish?
5) How much of the nitrogen in the trees comes from the salmon?
Answers below!
ANSWERS!
1) It cleanses the air; it stores and purifies water.
2) The Pacific.
3) To spawn (and then die).
4) Deep in the forest.
5) 80%.
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Vultures - nature's cleaners
Level: Upper-intermediate / B2
Vocabulary practice
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Here is another great video from the BBC's Power of Nature series. Called Vulture: Earth's clean up crew it looks at the effects of the loss of vultures in India
The video (four minutes long) and the text with it have some interesting vocabulary.
What do the following words mean:
1) scavenger
2) purify
3) soaring
4) undertaker
5) carcass
6) livestock
7) feral dog
8) rabies
9) rotting
10) extinction
Answers below!
ANSWERS!
The answers are taken from the Oxford on-line dictionary.
1) scavenger
an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse
2) purify
remove contaminants from
3) soaring
flying or rising high in the air
4) undertaker
a person whose business is preparing dead bodies for burial or cremation and making arrangements for funerals
5) carcass
the dead body of an animal
6) livestock
farm animals regarded as an asset
7) feral dog
in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication
8) rabies
a contagious and fatal viral disease of dogs and other mammals, transmissible through the saliva to humans and causing madness and convulsions. Also called hydrophobia.
9) rotting
the process of decaying
10) extinction
the state or process of being or becoming extinct
(extinct: (of a species, family, or other larger group) having no living members).
Vocabulary practice
Please click the 'Print Friendly' icon at the bottom of the page if you want to print this exercise.
Here is another great video from the BBC's Power of Nature series. Called Vulture: Earth's clean up crew it looks at the effects of the loss of vultures in India
The video (four minutes long) and the text with it have some interesting vocabulary.
What do the following words mean:
1) scavenger
2) purify
3) soaring
4) undertaker
5) carcass
6) livestock
7) feral dog
8) rabies
9) rotting
10) extinction
Answers below!
ANSWERS!
The answers are taken from the Oxford on-line dictionary.
1) scavenger
an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse
2) purify
remove contaminants from
3) soaring
flying or rising high in the air
4) undertaker
a person whose business is preparing dead bodies for burial or cremation and making arrangements for funerals
5) carcass
the dead body of an animal
6) livestock
farm animals regarded as an asset
7) feral dog
in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication
8) rabies
a contagious and fatal viral disease of dogs and other mammals, transmissible through the saliva to humans and causing madness and convulsions. Also called hydrophobia.
9) rotting
the process of decaying
10) extinction
the state or process of being or becoming extinct
(extinct: (of a species, family, or other larger group) having no living members).
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