Fauna in the Argentinian Wetlands

If we don’t put out the fires, many animals will suffer the consequences

1) Last weekend, you took the street art tour through Buenos Aires and came across
these paintings. You liked them a lot so you showed them to your classmates and
some questions about them came up.

What animals are these?

Why do you think people paint murals about
animals?
What dangers do animals
face?
2) You came across a video about the death of animals in Delta del Paraná and told your
friend about it . As she is interested in the topic, she asked you some questions.
a.-Why is there an “ecocide” in the Delta?
b.-What happens to the animals?
c.-What animals can you find there?
d.- Do you know why people start fires?
 3) You started looking at some posts on Instagram about this issue and you were shocked at
some drawings of animals suffering because of the fires. You don’t know these animals so
you looked up some information about them.

Weight and height: 1 metre, from

0.7 to 1.5 kg
Place: All around the world
Hunting and diet: Small fish and
mammals, aquatic insects, worms,
occasionally birds
Length and weight: 2.5
metres, from 80 to 90 kg
Place: South America. In the
north and centre of Argentina
Hunting and diet: Snails,
mollusks, crustaceans, fish.
If animals lose their
habitats, they won’t be able to
survive.

Weight and height: around

23 kg, from 1.10 to 1.40 m
Place: South America. In
the north and centre of
Argentina
Hunting and diet: Rats,
birds, small mammals. Wild
Weight fruit.
and height: 50 kg,
from 50 to 62 cm
Place: South America,
especially in the Paraná
Delta
Diet: Herbs, aquatic plants,
If the government doesn’t stop
fruit, seeds and flowers
If big companies continue the fires, thousands of animals
burning the land, they will will die.
destroy an essential ecosystem.
4) You copied the information on a Word document but forgot to write the names of the
animals. You try to match the animals in the pictures with their names.

5) You were talking about this topic with a classmate and he took down some notes. While
checking it, you find out that some information is not correct so you tick (✓) or correct it (x).

1- The Aguará Guazú lives in the north of

Argentina. ____

2- The Heron only exists in South ____

América.

3- The Yacaré feeds on mammals. ____

4- The Aguará Guazú is a feline. ____

5- The Capybara is a small rodent. ____

6- The Yacaré is the shortest in length ____

of these animals.
6) In class, you go on talking about the situation of these animals and their future but the
predictive text in your phones added some words to your messages, so you cross out the words
that aren’t necessary.

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1)Look at these sentences from the Instagram posts:

a) If the government doesn’t stop the fires, thousands of animals will die.
b) If animals lose their habitats, they won’t be able to survive.

Tick the correct option.

The sentences above talk about

● A REAL SITUATION AND ITS FUTURE CONSEQUENCES
● AN IMAGINARY OR UNREAL SITUATION AND ITS FUTURE
CONSEQUENCES
 2)Circle the correct option

● In sentence a), the cause is expressed in the negative form // affirmative

form of the present simple tense.

● In sentence b), the consequence is expressed in the affirmative form //

negative form of the future simple tense.

3)Look at the sentences in task 3 and complete the following statements.

● The negative form of the present simple is expressed with the auxiliaries
don’t or _________ + the verb in their infinitive form.
● The negative form of the future simple is expressed with the auxiliary will
not or __________ + the verb in their infinitive form.

These sentences are called FIRST CONDITIONAL or CONDITIONAL TYPE 1.

7) You found this shocking image online and you want to post it on Instagram to raise
awareness on the fires. You make some predictions about the future in the caption below
the image, but your phone accidentally deleted some words. You complete the caption with
the missing information.

burn the land

be destroyed
die
survive
not get
involved stop
extinguish
continue
pollute
get worse

In the future…
●If no one stops the fires, many animals won’t survive.
●If big companies ______________________, the capybaras _____________________.
●A big part of the vegetation in the Delta ____________________ if the fires
_________________
●The smoke __________________ the air if nobody ________________ the fires
●If If people ____________________, this problems ____________________.