MODULE 5 EXTRA PRACTICE SECTION B Name: .................................................

VOCABULARY
1
Complete the words next to their definitions.
1 not common to see: r ..... ..... .....
2 an animal that kills other animals for food: p ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... r
3 an animal that is killed for food: p ..... ..... .....
4 a mammal belonging to the dog family: f ..... .....
5 look for and kill other animals: h ..... ..... .....
6 a baby cow: c ..... ..... .....
7 an animal that is kept on a farm and gives milk: g ..... ..... .....
8 a wild animal in the dog family: w ..... ..... .....

2
Name an animal that … .
1 has got stripes .....................................
2 has got spots .....................................
3 is part of a flock .....................................
4 is part of a herd .....................................
5 has got a deadly bite .....................................

3
Complete the sentences with the words below. Then choose the correct animal in bold.
Check your answers at the bottom of the page.
hunt | young | fierce | deadliest | outrun | mate | spots

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Animal Facts
1 Mosquitoes / Flies are small, but they are the
..................................... animals in the world. Around 725,000
people are killed every year by the diseases which they
carry.
2 The fastest animal on land is the bear / cheetah. No other
land animal can ..................................... it.
3 Most people think koalas / horses are gentle animals
because of their cute appearance. But they can be quite
..................................... at times and have even attacked
people.
4 Alligators / Emperor penguins take turns looking after
their ..................................... . After a female lays an egg, she
goes to the ocean to ..................................... for food while her
..................................... sits on the egg. The female returns
when it’s time for the baby to be born, and the male goes
out in search of food.
5 Wolves / Dalmatians are sometimes deaf. The young are
born white, and their ..................................... appear as they
get older.

Answers to Exercise 3
1. Mosquitoes 2. cheetah 3. koalas 4. Emperor penguins 5. Dalmatians

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GRAMMAR
4 Complete the sentences. Use the Second Conditional.
1 ................................................... you ................................................... (volunteer) if you ...................................................
(have) the time?
2 Most domestic animals ................................................... (not survive) if people ...................................................
(not look after) them.
3 If people ................................................... (know) more about elephants, they ...................................................
(not hunt) them.
4 If wolves ................................................... (disappear), it ................................................... (destroy) the ecosystem.
5 Many trees ................................................... (not produce) fruit if bees ................................................... (become)
extinct.

5 Choose the correct answer.

1 The world had been / would have been different if dinosaurs wouldn’t have disappeared /
hadn’t disappeared.
2 If you had stepped / would have stepped on the scorpion, it had stung / would have stung you.
3 The cat hadn’t caught / wouldn’t have caught the bird if it hadn’t broken / wouldn’t have broken
its wing.
4 Had you gone / Would you have gone camping if you hadn’t been / wouldn’t have been ill?

6 Complete the text. Use the Second or Third Conditional.

What would happen if people suddenly 1. ..................................... (disappear) from an area?

Apparently, if they were gone for a long enough time, animals that had lived there before
2. (move) back. In 1986, a nuclear power plant exploded in Chernobyl,
.....................................

Russia. It was a terrible tragedy and people could no longer live there. If it
3. (not occur), the atmosphere 4. ..................................... (not be) full of
.....................................

radioactive material. It may be difficult to see anything positive coming out of this, but if you
5. (be) an animal, you would see things differently. Everyone knows that
.....................................
people destroy animal habitats. If we 6. (not cut down) trees in the forests,
.....................................
many plants and animals wouldn’t be in danger. Even though the radiation in the area of
Chernobyl is still dangerously high, bears, deer, wolves, wild horses and other species
have come back to live. This 7. ..................................... (not happen) if people 8. .....................................
still ..................................... (live) in Chernobyl. It seems that people do the most damage to
animals and the environment. So when people leave, nature fills the gap.

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