7 He k nows ................ . ....... Words of
French a nd he speaks ................. English.
our pla net.
ADAM I know. Sorry. Look , t her e's 10a few/hardly any room in the recycli ng bi n now.
ROSE Stop making excu ses! There· 11plenty/several of room.
SC Dangers at sea
Word formation (2): prefixes and opposites, other prefixes and suffixes Im ED
Read t he fi rst part of t he article. fill in gaps I -6 with t he correct word , a), h) or c).
The orcas' friendly and coopera tive na ture is very 7uscfv.I.. for finding food . Orcas h u n t in t heir pods and then work together to kill. In 1999 a
I3I3C team fil med a pod hu nti ng a grey whale and
"
b)
oversleep
c) sleepy
its cal f. The jou rnalist described the event:
3 |
a) u nfa i r |
b) |
u nclcrfair |
c) |
fai rless |
4 |
a) harmfu l |
b) |
harm less |
c) |
unharmf ul |
5 |
a) replay |
b) |
im play |
c) |
playful |
2 a) u na ccura t c b) disa ccu ra tc c) i naccurate
"The desperate calf * wa s fighting for i ts life
a nd I wanted t he orcas to fi n ish their job qu ickly.
8
Bu t the mothe r was
tire ............... in her attempts
6 a) incommon b) u ncommon c) ovcreom mon
to protect her calf. Her joh was an 9...............possi ble one."
The total worldwide population of orcas is
10
The
Orea
known, bu t is thou gh t 10 be arou nd
I 00,000. It is likely tha t we have 11 ····-···estimated how many there are because they live in all of t he world's ocea ns. Although they ha\'cn 't been h unted since 198I , scien tists believe their n u mbers are
12
If you t h ink you ha\'C a 1 ...$.( P.l. $.L. baby,
decreasing. In particular.
fishing and oil
consider this: baby killer whales don't sleep for
t he first mon t h of t hei r life so thei r mothers have to stay awa ke too!
In fact, the name 'killer whale' is a li ttle
accidents are reducing their food supplies.
There are abou t 40 orcas in aquarium s all over the world , bu t many people 13 ........ ..agree with keeping them in these cond ition s and believe
14
. .............. ... and also 3.................................... .
it's
••••• responsible. The mosL famous orca ,
Fi
rstly,
k
i
ller
whales
(or
orcas)
arc
not
really
whales
.
They're
i
n
fact
t
he
largest
mem
ber
of
Kei ko, who appeared i n the I 993 film F ree Willy ,
was in an aq ua ri u m u ntil scien tists attem pted to
t he dol ph in fami ly. Second l y, they are usually
4
15 ........... m•
troduce I1·1m m· to a pod 1.11 t he w1'Id.
16
....
to
h
u
ma
ns.
There
a
re
no
records
of a ny orca a uacks on h u ma ns in t he wild.
I nstead , t hese a n i mals arc high ly sociable a nd even quite 5•••• • .......... ...... They l ive i n grou ps called 'pods', wi th between 5 a nd 30 orcas, for their whole lives. And it is very 6 ...... .. . ...
to see one swimmi ng alone .
b) Read the second part of t he article an d add the correct suffo or prefix to \vords 7-16. Use these suffu..:cs and prefixes.
Suffixes: ..fut; -less
Prefixes : re-, im-, under-, over-, ir -, dis-, un- (x 2)
The $20 million attem pt was ......_ successfu l ,
howeve r, and Keiko swam 1,-f OO kilomet res on his own to Norway where he spent the last two yea rs of h is life .
*ca lf "' a rou ng whale
Read both parts of the article again . Arc t hese sentences tme (T), false (f') or the article doesn't say (DS)?
11] Killer wha les arc not a type of whale .
0A h uman has never been killed by an orca .
DOrcas h u m alone .
0I n 1hc d escription , the you ng grey w hale
su rvivcs .
D There arc proba bl y more t ha n 100,000
orcas in t he world .
DI n I 981 h u nti ng whales was made illegal.
7 D Pollu ti on is a problem for orcas.
DKei ko was fou nd in a n aquari u m i n Mexico .
D Keiko hcca me pa rt of a pod when he was
released .