Read the text on page 60 in your textbook and complete the tasks

1. Write shortly who/what are these:

Yuri –

Valentin Pazhetnov –

Fred O’Regan –

Bryansk –

2. To each sentence write T (true), F (false), or DS (it doesn’t say):

Yuri’s mother died.

The hunters‘ dogs killed her.
Hunters usually shoot the cubs, too.
There are only 200 bears in the rest of Europe.
Yuri was found in a forest near Moscow.
Professor Pazhetnov has saved over 100 bears.
Some of the bears have been released in Poland.
All the orphan bears have survived.

3. Answer the questions shortly:

When was Yuri born?

Where was his mother hibernating?

How did Yuri feel inside the den?

How old was Yuri when some hunters came?

How many brown bears are there in Russia today?

Why are the brown bears killed?

Where is the Russian Bear Orphanage?

How many bear cubs have been returned to the forest so far?

Why is money needed in the Orphanage?

4. Match the words (1-12) to the meanings (a-l):

1. a cub a/ the bear’s hair

2. hibernate b/ a child with no parents
3. so far c/ hit by a bullet from a gun
4. a den d/ to sleep through the winter
5. shot e/ a place where animals are protected
6. blind f/ a baby bear
7. a nature reserve g/ money that you give to help
8. an orphan h/ a place where orphans are looked after
9. an orphanage i/ they have all died
10. extinct j/ a bear’s home
11. fur k/ can’t see
12. a donation l/ up to now