Paper 4, Part 2
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 459.
Listening
1)Read the following headlines. What do you think the problem is?
| END OF A WAY OF LIFE |
| COD WARS INTENSIFY |
| What happened to all the fish? |
2) You will hear a radio documentary about fishing. Before you listen, read the gapped sentences below. What do you think the programme will focus on?
| In the past, the sea around Cape Bonavista was ………… (1) in the world. Since 1992, ………… (2) has been almost completely forbidden. Bill was unhappy about the effect of the distant water fleets on ………… (3) levels. One effect of the new methods of fishing was that ………… (4) were damaged. Now the traditional ………… (5) is rapidly disappearing. Fish farming does not help numbers of ………… (6) to return to their former levels. Another fishing community is surviving by using a scheme which involves ………… (7) the fish. This scheme allows enough fish to swim up the river and ………… (8). During an ‘opening', ………… (9) is permitted in the day. |
3) Now listen and complete the sentences with a word or short phrase. Your answers must fit the grammatical structure of the sentence.
4) Listen again to complete and check your answers. Finally check that what you have written is grammatically correct and that you haven't made any spelling mistakes.
5) What does the report you have just heard suggest about our ability to reverse the pattern of extinctions of the last 1,000 years? Do you agree?
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