English - Reading

English Lesson
by Miss Arofah
Today's Agenda
Reading:
Matching questions
and answers of an
interview
Instructions
You are going to read a magazine interview about sharks.

The questions are missing from the interview and are given before the text.
Choose the best question from the list (A-H) for each part (1-6) of the
interview.
There is one extra question that you do not need to use.
Write your answers in the boxes.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
QUESTIONS
A Have you ever gone down to watch sharks without a cage?
B Do sharks need to be protected?
C Why do sharks sometimes attempt to hurt people? Are they looking for food?
D Do you ever get nervous?
E You’ve spent a lot of time with sharks. What has been your favourite experience?
F Do you always watch sharks alone?
G What have scientists learned about sharks?
H Do you use a shark cage for protection when you’re in the water with the sharks?
EXAMPLE
A Have you ever gone down to watch sharks without a
cage?
(0)
We’ve learned that sharks aren’t dumb C Why do sharks sometimes attempt to hurt people?
eating machines. They have good Are they looking for food?
memories, they learn very quickly and D Do you ever get nervous?
they can make associations. If they E You’ve spent a lot of time with sharks. What has been
associate an object with food, they’ll your favorite experience?

come towards it and test it in their
G What have scientists learned about sharks?
mouths.
H Do you use a shark cage for protection when you’re
in the water with the sharks?
ANSWER OF EXAMPLE
(0)
We’ve learned that sharks aren’t dumb
eating machines. They have good
memories, they learn very quickly and G What have scientists learned about
sharks?
they can make associations. If they
associate an object with food, they’ll come
towards it and test it in their mouths.
MAKE A TABLE FOR THE ANSWER
Questions G
Answers 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
LET'S FIND THE QUESTIONS
(1)
A shark attack is a sign that
cage?
something unusual has happened. It’s
like going into the backyard of a big
C Why do sharks sometimes attempt to hurt people?
dog. If the dog comes over and grabs
Are they looking for food?
your leg and bites you, he is not trying
to eat you. He is trying to tell you
E You’ve spent a lot of time with sharks. What has been
something – maybe ‘Get out of the
your favorite experience?
yard’ or ‘You are bothering me.’ That’s
true for sharks too. In most cases H Do you use a shark cage for protection when you’re
when they attack, they take a bite and in the water with the sharks?
let go.
(2)
When I was in Australia cage?
studying white sharks, we set B Do sharks need to be protected?
out food because otherwise C Why do sharks sometimes attempt to hurt people?
we’d be there for months
without seeing a single shark. E You’ve spent a lot of time with sharks. What has been
When it was time to get up your favorite experience?
close to the sharks, I used a F Do you always watch sharks alone?
cage – so that they didn’t
mistake me for food!
(3) A Have you ever gone down to watch sharks without a
I’ve looked at hammerheads cage?

and many other sharks without
being in a shark cage and they Are they looking for food?
don’t bother me. I don’t do D Do you ever get nervous?
anything that might attract E You’ve spent a lot of time with sharks. What has been
a large shark – like spearing a
fish. If you know how to act in H Do you use a shark cage for protection when you’re
the water, you’re usually safe. in the water with the sharks?
(4) A Have you ever gone down to watch sharks without a
No. When you spend a lot of cage?
time with sharks you find out that B Do sharks need to be protected?
the hardest thing is stopping
them from swimming away from D Do you ever get nervous?
you! Even big sharks will E You’ve spent a lot of time with sharks. What has been
disappear. When people ask me, your favorite experience?
‘What should I do when I see a F Do you always watch sharks alone?
shark underwater?’, I tell them,
‘Relax – just enjoy the view.’
(5)
cage?
More people are eating sharks
and they are doing terrible things C Why do sharks sometimes attempt to hurt people?
to get them. To get shark fins for Are they looking for food?
shark soup, sharks are hunted D Do you ever get nervous?
down. Their fins are cut off and
they are put back in the water.
That’s a terrible way to leave an H Do you use a shark cage for protection when you’re
animal to die. in the water with the sharks?
cage?
(6) B Do sharks need to be protected?
It was the first time I rode a full- C Why do sharks sometimes attempt to hurt people?
grown whale shark. They’re very Are they looking for food?
docile – and very fast! I hung on D Do you ever get nervous?

to its dorsal fin and had a ride
around the sea that I’ll never F Do you always watch sharks alone?
forget. H Do you use a shark cage for protection when you’re

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You are going to read a magazine interview about sharks.

associate an object with food, they’ll your favorite experience?

I’ve looked at hammerheads cage?

docile – and very fast! I hung on D Do you ever get nervous?

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