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    John is a palaeontologist who gives a talk about how he came to work in this field. He started as an archaeology student but became fascinated with extinct animals after a university lecture. On his first field trip digging fossils in difficult conditions, he found nothing for five days and began to regret his career choice. However, on the last day he discovered a tooth from a giant kangaroo, which made him realize palaeontology was the right path for him.

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    John is a palaeontologist who gives a talk about how he came to work in this field. He started as an archaeology student but became fascinated with extinct animals after a university lecture. On his first field trip digging fossils in difficult conditions, he found nothing for five days and began to regret his career choice. However, on the last day he discovered a tooth from a giant kangaroo, which made him realize palaeontology was the right path for him.

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    Palaeontologist
    a. Listen and fill in the blanks.

    Good morning everyone. My name is John and I’m a palaeontologist. Now when most people hear
    that, they (1) mediately get an image of an old professor studying dried-up (2)dinosaur (3) bones or
    else they think of a great (4) adventure from the movies! Well, I’m neither. But I would like to talk
    to you today about how I came to be a palaentologist and the reason I (5) believe it is an important
    job. All my life, my main (6) interest has been the environment. So, I actually started out as an (7)
    achology student. As a part of my degree (8)courses , I had to do a unit on (9)extinction and a (10)
    lecturers visiting from another university gave us a talk on Australia’s (11) extinct animals. One of
    the animals he talked about was called the Diprotodon. It’s an (12) extinct of the modern Australian
    (13)wombat. He described this (14)abnomals animal crossing (15)ancient lakes, getting stuck in the
    (16) mud and becoming part of the fossil record, which is what we call the preserved (17)dermoidof
    animals and plants that we find. And I was (18) fascinated. So fascinated that I immediately changed
    courses.
    But palaentology isn’t all easy going. The very first (19)fill trip I went on was pretty (20)out full .
    We went to an outback fossil site and we were digging in (21)extream conditions. I’ve learned since
    that that’s pretty (22) standard for work like this. But to make matters (23)was after five days I’d
    (24)found nothing. I was getting really disheartened and I was starting to (25)regreat my decision,
    when on the last day of the (26)trip, I was digging into the bank of an ancient dried-up riverbed and I
    found a funny-looking piece of (27)rock. Inside it was a (28)tooth from a giant (29) kangaroo.
    Finding that one fossil made me (30) release that this was a field I really wanted to continue working
    in.

    b. Now, answer the following questions.


    1. What is the main topic of the talk? Palaeontologist
    2. What is the purpose of the talk? how john came to be a paleontologist
    3. What did John study at the university before he decided to change courses? achology
    4. What did the lecturer visiting John’s university talk about? Australia’s extinct animals
    5. What made John realised he had made the right choice?when he digging into the bank of an
    ancient

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