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2 Suggest your own answers to the questions below. Then watch the episode and compare you suggestions.

  • Who or what is the elephant’s main enemy?

  • Why are African elephants hunted?

  • What is happening to the African elephant?

  • What are Indian elephants used for?

  • How do elephants behave towards human beings and among themselves?

3 Match the words 1-5 from the episode to the definitions A-E.

1 slaughter A either of the two long pointed teeth which stick out from the mouth of some animals such as elephants

2 ivory B something that is likely to cause harm

3 herd C the mass killing of animals for meat

4 menace D the hard yellowish-white substance that forms the tusks elephants, in the past to make decorative objects

5 tusk E a large group of animals of the same type that live and feed together

4 Watch the video and check you answers to the questions in activity 2.

5 Watch once again the section with the news reporter Harriet Ryley. Choose one word from two in bold to make the sentences correct.

1 The slaughter / hunting of elephants in Africa for their skin / ivory is driving the animal to the verge of extinction.

2 Tigers / Humans have always been the elephants main friends /enemy.

3 Centuries ago the Romans / the Indians drove the elephant hers out of North America / Africa.

4 Before that, hunting had contributed to the destruction /extinction of the mammoth / rhinoceros.

5 Now an exhibition is charting man’s relationship with the world’s biggest land creature / animal.

6 Watch the section with Jane Pickering, Assistant Curator, and fill the gaps with necessary words.

1 It’s known that the ………………….were responsible for the extinction of the African elephant.

2 And the Romans used ……………..for virtually anything they could think of.

3 The Emperor Caligula built a ……………ivory stable.

4 If a member of the family is ill, then the ………………will wait behind and help it to walk and feed.

5 If it dies, then the family will ………..around the area for some time.

6 And they find it very …………………to leave.

7 The video shows a scene of a single dead elephant.

When, where and for whom was it killed?

When?.......................................................................................................

Where?......................................................................................................

Why? …………………………………………………………………………… For whom? ……………………………………………………………………..

8 What is ‘Nature’s Great Masterpiece’ and what is it intended to achieve?

9 One word was not in the episode . Which one?

ivory enemy stable jungle table skeleton hunting mammoth modern-day

10 Read the text about elephants and list as many differences between the Asian and the African elephant.

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