B. Answer the following questions.
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A. What is the correct order of the events?
I. Pre-listening Task.
CUPID, THE DOLPHIN
III. Speaking Activities.
B. Reading Comprehension.
- What are practical results of studying dolphins' behavior?
- What is the dolphins' “social” system?
- What is the relationship between mothers and cubs?
- What is the way to bring up the young?
- How does the emotional activity of the dolphins influence their behavior?
- Say if it is easy for people and dolphins to communicate with each other. Why?
- Compare the ways to bring up the young between people and dolphins. .
IV. Make up a summary of the text.
V. Listening Activities.
National Geographic
- Before listening, pay attention to the following words.
Lethargic - having no energy, very tired.
Pathetic - sad and helpless.
Critical care - the specialized care of injuries that are life-threatening.
Belly-up - on one's back; with the stomach or “belly” turned upwards.
In captivity - unable to move and act freely; kept within a limited area.
II. After-listening Task.
__Renaud and the team brought Cupid back to the center in a lorry.
__Christopher called the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network.
__Christopher found Cupid stranded on the beach.
__Cupid started to get better.
__A team of volunteers watched over Cupid carefully.
- What did Tammy Renaud think when she first saw the dolphin?
- What are two main reasons that marine mammals get stranded?
- Where was Cupid taken at first?
- Why did the volunteers call the dolphin Cupid?
- What was unusual about Cupid? What was his illness?
- What did he lack when he slept?
- What is magical about dolphins?
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