1. - Listening activity 1.1 Read the tittle and look at the pictures.

Working to Give Wildlife Room to Roam

Bison

Grizzly Bear

Wolves

Cattle

What do the photos suggest to you? foresee what we are going to listen to?

What do you think the topic of text is about?

Or can you

1.2.-Before listening to the text, lets have a look to some useful vocabulary
Wildlife: the native fauna of a region Livestock: cattle or farm animals Livelihood: means of support or subsistence Acre: a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards (0.405 hectare).

Grazing privileges: special rights to pasture , to feed the cattle with grass To file lawsuits: to take legal actions, to take someone to court. To thrive: to make progress, to succeed

1.3 Listening: Working to Give Wildlife Room to Roam

Whats the right answer when faced with seemingly irresolvable conflicts between wildlife and livestock? Kill the wildlife? Force the cows off the land? Or is there a better solution For rancher Rick Jarrett, it was a question that put his entire livelihood at stake. For 28 years he ran cattle on 8,000 acres of rich grass, brush and forest just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Although it was challenging to run cattle in such a remote location, his business did well. But the wildlife issues made it difficult. First it was grizzly bears killing a few calves, but the problems seemed manageable. Next, a dozen wolves moved in. It was never the same after that. The

wolves would corner the cows and harass them.

The

wildlife conflict was seriously impacting his business, and he had a choice to make. Legally, he could have had federal agents come in and kill the bears and wolves to protect his cows. But he wasnt happy with that solution. He had heard that National Wildlife Federation paid other ranchers to relocate their livestock to new locations. So he decided to give our Adopt-a-Wildlife-Acre program a try. Rick was eventually compensated $50,000 for giving up his grazing privileges and relocating his cattle to a conflict-free location. Grizzlies and wolves and potentially bison now benefit from safe use of the land. wildlife, NWF really listened to my needs. I respect them as an organization. They dont says Rick. want to just file lawsuits. They want to find real solutions and accomplish something for the benefit of Heres how NWFs Adopt-a-Wildlife-Acre program works: 1.- NWF pays ranchers for their grazing privileges on acreage where wildlife conflict exists. 2.- Then, we work with the U.S. Forest Service to permanently close the acreage to grazing. Ranchers are compensated, livestock thrives and wildlife survives .Its win-win-win!

1.4

Story Sequence Chart:

1.4.1 The students will be named A, B and C.

Students A will be in charge of listening and gathering the information to fill the chart that deals with the beginning or introduction of the story Students B will be in charge of listening and gathering the information to fill the middle chart that deals with the development/climax of the events. Students C will be in charge of listening and gathering the information to fill the chart that deals with the end or solution of the story. 1.4.2 Once A B C have listened to it twice and filled his/her part of chart, all students A will make a group to put the information in common so that speaker A can give the best version of the beginning

of the story to the rest of the class. Groups and speakers B and C will do the same activity with their groups. At the end of the activity each student will have completed the chart A, B and C with the information of the story.

1.5 Additional information. Listen to the text again and explain how NWFs Adopt-a-Wildlife-Acre program works: 1.6 Write the correct word into the sentences:

to run cattle to corner 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

to harass ranchers

Grizzlies livestock

to thrive

wolves

acres to file lawsuits

grazing privileges

He ran cattle on 8,000______________ of rich grass, brush and forest just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Although it was challenging__________________ in such a remote location, his business did well. The wolves would ______________ the cows and _____________ them. He had heard that National Wildlife Federation paid other _________________ to relocate their ______________ to new locations. Rick was eventually compensated $50,000 for giving up his ________________ and relocating his cattle to a conflict-free location. _____________ and ________________ and potentially bison now benefit from safe use of the land. NWF dont want to just ___________________ They want to find real solutions. says Rick. Ranchers are compensated, livestock_______________. and wildlife survives.

1.7 Read the transcription of the listening and underline the plural nouns and collective nouns to fill the chart
Singular Noun cow privilege grizzly acre Plural Noun cows privileges grizzlies Singular Noun wolf calf Irregular Plural N. wolves calves Collective Noun cattle wildlife livestock

1.7.1. Set the rules for the plural formation and write some examples of your own
es The majority of nouns form the plural by adding the ending s

Some irregular plural nouns ending in /f /, change to /v/ - y endings changes to -ies

1.7.2 The pronunciation of s endings .Listen to this group of words. In each group all the words except one have the same pronunciation. Underline the odd one out in each group.
Tasks)
(unit 58 Martin Hewings Pronunciation

1.8

Search on the internet .Work in groups of 3 .What do you

know about Yellowstone? Brainstorming. Write a short project, poster with pictures about YELLOWSTONE and present it to the class. National Wildlife Federation and the Rainforest http://www.nwf.org