Lesson 21
Animals in danger






Look at the pictures and say which of these animals you know, which of them still live in the wild and which ones have disappeared forever
VOCABULARY |reading
Australia /ɒs`treɪ.li.ə/ a large country in the Pacific Ocean
Tasmania /tæz`meɪ.ni.ə/ an Australian island and state whose capital city is Hobart. It is located 240 kilometers south of the eastern side of the continent
Mauritius /mə`rɪʃ.əs/ острів Маврикій. an island country in the Indian Ocean. Officially it is the Respublic of Mauritius. It is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar /,mæd.ə`ɡæs.kər/
Santa Cruz Island is the largest privately /`praɪ.vət.li/ owned island off the continental United States. The island is a part of the northern group of the Channel Islands of California and the largest of the eight islands in the chain. Santa Cruz Island is located within /wɪ`ðɪn/ у межах Santa Barbara County /`kaʊn.ti/ округ, California
Charles Darvin was an English naturalist /`nætʃ.ər.əl.ɪst/ geologist and biologist
Pinta Island is an island located in the Galápagos Islands group, Ecuador(/`ek.wə.dɔ:r/-a country in South America) It has an area of 60 km2 (23 sq mi) Pinta was the original home to Lonesome George, perhaps the most famous tortoise in the Galápagos Islands. He was the last known representative of the giant tortoises.
The Thylacine /`θaɪ.lə.si;n/ = Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian tiger= a striped, meat-eating Australian mammal about the size of a large dog. It is believed to have become extinct /ɪk`stɪŋkt/ in the 20th century (= it no longer exists).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqCCI1ZF7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu1rNBmBL_w
Dodo /`dəʊ.dəʊ/ a large bird, unable to fly, that no longer exists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw5Ux9oAPIc
The Barbary lion was a local group of lions which are now extinct in the wild . The Barbary lion was also called the atlas lion and the nubian lion. It used to live in North Africa, from Morocco to Egypt.
The Barbary lion was large and heavy. Males weighed about 190 to 230 kilograms and females weighed about 150 to 190 kilograms These lions did not live in prides. These lions lived alone, or in pairs
mane /meɪn/ the long, thick hair that grows along the top of a horse's neck or around the face and neck of a lion- грива
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcSxfXUFiRk
Lonesome George is a giant tortoise from the island of Pinta The Pinta tortoise was thought to be extinct in the early part of the 20th century. Then in 1971 a Hungarian scientist studying snails on Pinta saw a tortoise on the island – Lonesome George. and in the spring of 1972, Galapagos National Park rangers brought the tortoise to the Tortoise Center on Santa Cruz for its protection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuwVhrJrFCg
Snow leopard /`lep.əd/ is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTlveCrymV8
Blue whale /weɪl/- a very large sea mammal that breathes air through a hole at the top of its head
Mammal /`mæm.əl/
any animal of which the female feeds her young on milk from her own body. Most mammals give birth to live young, not eggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pjI2XkmoL0
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