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    ESO 1

    DOSSIER: EXTINCT ANIMALS


    PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE

    In pairs discuss: which of these animals are extinct? Which


    ones are in danger of extinction? Classify the animals in the
    grid below.

    Useful expressions: I think…… is extinct / I am sure…… / I am


    not sure……..

    Dodo Dinosaurs Asian Elephant


    Blue Whale

    Asian Lion Cheetah Dolphin Giant


    Panda

    Orangutan Gorilla Polar Bear


    Iberian Ibex

    EXTINCT ENDANGERED

    1.WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE VIDEO ABOUT ANIMALS IN


    DANGER OF EXTINCTION

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=asw-tkjqQqE

    Complete the sentences:

    There are fewer than………………. Gorillas left in the world

    In the last 100 years…………………… per cent of the Orangutan population


    has disappeared

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    There are between 20,000 and …………….. Polar Bears in the Arctic

    There are only ……………………… Giant Pandas in the world today

    There are only ………………………… Asian elephants

    EXTINCT ANIMALS

    1.Here is a text about the DODO. Complete it by finding the


    information in the webpages suggested:

    http://www.birds.mu/Extinct/Dodo.htm

    http://www.davidreilly.com/dodo/

    http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/T
    reasures/Dodo/dodo.html?dinos

    http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/informat
    ion/Raphus_cucullatus.html

    COMPLETE THIS TEXT ABOUT THE DODO

    The dodo was a bird that lived in the island of ……


    …………………. It was first seen around ……………………….. and in
    80 years it was extinct. There are no complete dodo
    specimens so we don’t know exactly what they looked like.

    This skeleton of a dodo is in the American


    Museum of Natural History. We can see that the dodos had 2

    2
    heavy ……………………….. but could not fly. It weighed ……………
    ………….. kilos and was probably ……………………….. in colour. It
    had a big, curved beak. Its legs were ……………………….. and
    yellow. The dodo wasn’t aggressive, and it had no predators.

    Sailors who arrived in the island ate them. But the most
    important cause of the extinction of dodos was the
    destruction of the forest and the animals that the sailors
    brought to the island (rats, cats and ………………………..) which
    destroyed the dodo’s nests.

    A. Where is Mauritius? Find it in the Internet. Useful web


    pages:

    www.wikipedia.com www.nationalgeographic.com
    www.lonelyplanet.com

    www.yahoo.com

    B. Find the meaning of the underlined words and translate


    them into your mother tongue:

    Nest

    Sailor

    Specimen

    Beak

    Predators

    C. In the text about the Dodo, find the sentences that:

    a. Describe the Dodo:

    b. Say where it lived:

    c. Say when it became extinct:

    3
    d. Explain the causes of extinction:

    BECOME AN EXPERT ON AN EXTINCT ANIMAL!

    Find an extinct animal and write a similar text about it. It

    must include:

    • Description (size, color….)

    • Habitat

    • Causes of extinction

     Write a description of your extinct animal and post it to

    your blog. Add pictures.

     Check 3 posts of 3 different classmates and write a

    comment to their blogpost.

    WEBPAGES ABOUT EXTINCT ANIMALS

    http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/extinct.shtml

    http://www.50birds.com/extan/gextanimals1.htm

    http://extinctanimals.petermaas.nl/

    http://www.extinctanimal.com/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_animals

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