Saving the Tiger

Lessons 13-14

9-11-2020
 Objectives

 To listen for gist and specific information.

 To read and check information from the text.

• To analyze the use a range of linking adverbials to develop ideas in a

cohesive paragraph.
 Starter
 What do you know about
tigers? Look at the photos in
your Coursebook Page 48.

 What do you think the people

in the second photo are doing?
Why?
Keywords
• Extinction: when an animal or plant no longer exists.
• Conservation: trying to protect the natural environment.
• Habitat: the natural environment where an animal or plant lives
• Camouflage: when the skin or fur of an animal is similar to the
area around it.
• Predator: an animal that kills and eats another animal
• Threat: something or someone that poses a danger;
• Poaching: killing animals illegally
• Territory: an area that is marked out by an animal as theirs.
Listening

Listen and answer: What causes conflict between humans and tigers?

Listening activity 3: Classkick

Use of English: Linking
Adverbials
We have already seen that linking adverbials can help clarify a text by specifying the sequence in
which things happen (firstly, then, finally).

They can also provide cohesion by giving us extra information (in addition, additionally, besides) or
reinforcing an opinion (furthermore, moreover), contrasting (however, whereas, on the other hand, in
contrast), showing cause and effect (consequently, accordingly, as a result) and telling us something of
the writer or speaker’s attitude (unfortunately, fortunately, thankfully, hopefully, sadly, happily):

However, over the last one hundred years, the tiger population has decreased.

As a result, domestic livestock are sometimes killed.

Unfortunately, over the past century, enormous areas of this habitat have been developed.