Is it too late?
1 READING
Is it too late?
A Read the article.
The Tiger
For many people, the tiger is the most beautiful and most exciting member of the cat family. But these fabulous creatures are in great danger.
The earliest tiger fossils are two million years old. In the past, there were nine different species of tiger. Now there are only six. A hundred years ago, there were 100,000 tigers. They lived all over Asia. Today there are only 3,000 tigers left in the wild.
In some countries, tigers mean ‘money’. People use the tiger’s body to make medicine. So the local people hunt the tiger and sell its body. And the forests where tigers live are disappearing, so they are losing their natural homes too. Organisations like the World Wide Fund For Nature are trying to save the tiger, but it isn’t easy. If we aren’t careful, they will soon be extinct. And then the power and beauty of the wild tiger will only exist in our memories.
B Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
2 LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Song
A Listen to the song and choose the best description.
B Listen again, then answer the questions. Share your ideas with the class.
1 What’s happening in the first verse? Are there any problems?
2 What’s happening in the second verse? Why is there ‘danger in the air’?
3 Complete the tiger's message: I's a ____ world. But if you don't ____, you ___ it for ever.
3 WRITING
An endangered animal
Use what you know
Find out about another endangered animal and write a description. Use words and ideas from Exercise 1 and from the Extra Reading text in this unit.
The … lives in …
… year ago, there were …
Today, there are only … left in the wild.
The problem is that …