Listening comprehension: What’s hidden under the sand of the Sahara?

Exercise I: Choose the correct answer.

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1. What’s the name of the longest river in Africa that links to the Pacific Ocean?

a) Senegal
b) Tamanraselt
c) Mega Chad

2. Where is Sahara located?

a) Africa
b) Russia
c) America

3. What is the total size of the Sahara that has turned into a desert?

a) 1,900 km2
b) 190 mln km.
c) 9 mln km2

4. What is the ultimate theory of how Sahara turned from the green land into a desert?

a) Drought due to climate change

b) The tilt of earth has changed
c) Meteorite hit the earth

5. What is the major dinosaur fossils found in the Sahara?

a) Turtle
b) Whales
c) Crocodile

6. What type of dinosaur is “Paralititan Stromeri”?

a) A carnivorous
b) An herbivorous
c) An omnivorous

7. What animal weigh as much as the newly covered dinosaur

a) Whale
b) Bull elephant
c) African leopard

8. Which is not the hypothesis for “The eye of the Sahara”?

a) The Erosion
b) Meteoroid
c) Alien landing site

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Exercise II (Writing): My impression of the Sahara