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Comprehension check

1. How many surviving tiger subspecies are there?

2. What is the population of tigers?

3. What is their habitat?

4. What are primary threats to tigers?

5. Why are tigers under tremendous pressure now?

6. What is to be done to recover tiger population?

Vocabulary presentation and practice

Vocabulary in context

I. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases from the text.

1. Each tiger subspecies has a different range.

2. poaching still is rampant

3. Habitat destruction resulting from logging

4. it simultaneously fragments tiger population

5. the mangrove swamps

6. to lose habitat to human encroachment

7. wild game

II. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following Russian phrases.

1. пять уцелевших подвидов

2. в их естественной среде должно быть достаточно

3. предполагаемый медицинский эффект

4. добыча тигра падает

5. находятся под большой угрозой

6. эти последние оплоты находятся под сильным воздействием

7. утрата ареала

8. были истреблены

9. из-за браконьерства

10. нелегальная торговля

11. численность дикого тигра может быстро восстановиться

Vocabulary in practice

I. Find in the text words similar in meaning to the following.

1. value 2. calculate 3. about 4. area 5. live in 6. enough 7. spreading 8. take up 9. reduce 10. demolition 11. destroy 12. because of 13. quickly 14. fate 15. plenty

II. Paraphrase the underlined part of each sentence choosing the appropriate word or phrase from the text.

1. There are large areas of forest.

2. Tigers live in great numbers.

3. The tiger has long been abused.

4. These tigers vanished.

5. A few Chinese tigers survive.

6. There was an attempt to destroy them completely.

7. Poachers inspected all the forests.

8. The number of tigers was becoming less.

9. According to this program, they organized three reserves.

10. Tigers got used to visitors.

11. Population has grown by 50 per cent.

III. Find in the text words and phrases with the opposite meaning.

1. exactly 2. similar 3. increase 4. construction 5. expanding 6. to be found in scarcity 7. lack 8. increase 9. alive 10. die

IV. Give the word for its definition.

1. a group of plants or animals having important common characteristics

2. the natural home or place of growth

3. growing rapidly and spreading quickly

4. an animal, bird, fish, etc., hunted, killed and eaten by another

5. to trespass on (another’s game preserve) in order to hunt or fish

6. wild animals and birds hunted or shot for sport or food

7. be greater than

8. a gradual weakening

9. an area of land kept and used for a special purpose

V. Match the word with its definition.

1. to impose a. a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or

thing

2. collaborate b. give; engage

3. priority c. the act of persuading to do wrong

4. sponsor d. that which urges, rouses or encourages

5. pledge e. help forward; encourage; support

6. temptation f. giving; something given

7. promote g. force or persuade a person to do or take something

8. incentive h. being prior in order or greater in importance

9. donation i. work together with another

10. daunting j. frightening, discouraging