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Pre-Intermediate (Prep 121) PERIOD 1 Moodle LISTENING Materials

This document provides listening materials about animals that are endangered in the ocean. It includes objectives, vocabulary words, and a passage about saving ocean animals. The passage discusses three animals - green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks - that are endangered and why. Green sea turtles are threatened by hunting and pollution. Blue whales were historically overhunted but are now protected. Great white sharks face threats from hunting and fishing nets. The materials are intended to help students practice listening comprehension.

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Pre-Intermediate (Prep 121) PERIOD 1 Moodle LISTENING Materials

This document provides listening materials about animals that are endangered in the ocean. It includes objectives, vocabulary words, and a passage about saving ocean animals. The passage discusses three animals - green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks - that are endangered and why. Green sea turtles are threatened by hunting and pollution. Blue whales were historically overhunted but are now protected. Great white sharks face threats from hunting and fishing nets. The materials are intended to help students practice listening comprehension.

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PRE-INTERMEDIATE (PREP 121)

PERIOD 1 Moodle LISTENING Materials

TROUBLE IN THE OCEAN

Objectives:
 to understand gist
 to identify specific information

Audio: 2 minutes 10 seconds

PART1
VOCABULARY
Check these words in your dictionaries and write a sample sentence from your
dictionaries.
WORD DEFINITION SAMPLE SENTENCE

Endangered (adj)

Shell (n)

Pull (v)

Grow (v)

Hunt (v)

Law (n)

Coast (n)

Pollution (n)

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PART 2

Complete the blanks using numbers or two / three words while listening.

Save the Ocean Animals

Some sea creatures need help.

Many kinds of animals live in the ocean. Some of those animals are endangered. That means
they are 1) __________________ dying out. Only a few are left in the world. Scientists are
trying to keep endangered animals safe.

Green Sea Turtle:

The green sea turtle lives in warm waters. An adult green sea turtle eats mostly plants. It can
weigh up to 2) ___________________ pounds. Its shell can grow to 4 feet long. A green sea
turtle can’t pull its head into its shell the way some turtles can.

Why are green sea turtles endangered? People hunt them for their 3) __________________.
The turtles also get trapped in nets used to catch fish. Pollution hurts the turtles too. If turtles
eat trash, it can 4) _______________________ .

Blue Whale:

The blue whale is 5) ______________________ animal in the world. It is as big as an


airplane. The whale can grow to 6) ___________ feet long and weigh more than 100 tons. A
ton is equal to 7) _________________ pounds.

The blue whale lives in all the oceans. It eats tiny animals called krill. A blue whale can eat
about 4 tons of krill each day.

Blue whales are endangered. People once hunted them for their meat and fat. The fat was
used 8) ___________________ for lamps. Special laws now protect blue whales. People no
longer hunt them.

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Great White Shark:

The great white shark is the largest meat-eating shark. It grows to about 9) __________ feet
long. It weighs up to 10) _____________ pounds. The shark has rows of long, sharp teeth. It
eats fish, dolphins, seals, and other ocean animals.

Great white sharks are often found in waters near the coast. A coast is land 11)
__________________ the ocean.

People are a threat to great white sharks. People hunt them for their teeth, jaws, and meat.
The sharks also get caught in fishing nets.

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