Read the answers to some questions to the text above

Make up the questions:

a) What … for?

They use ivory to make jewellery, piano keys and billiard balls.

b) When …

Large scale killing of elephants began in about 1900.

c) How many …

About 700,000 elephants died in that period.

d) What …

To protect the elephants it was decided to ban the sale of ivory.

e) What …

Angry villagers were demanding that elephants should be taken away from areas near humans.

f) What …

Money from the sale is being used to help people live alongside the elephant.

Do the crossword.

1. A group of animals or plants which are similar and can breed together to produce young animals or plants of the same kind as them.

2. Animals that live on a farm or in someone's home.

3. Animals that eat flesh.

4. An animal that lives in water and swims, and uses its fins and tail to swim.

5. Creatures with wings and feathers that lay eggs and can usually fly.

6. Small creatures like a fly or ant, that have six legs, and sometimes wings.

7. Animals that can live both on land and in water.

8. The class of animals that drink milk from its mother's body when they are young.

9. Animals such as snakes or lizards whose blood changes according to the temperature around it, and that usually lay eggs.

Study the meanings of these four related verbs.

Fill in the gaps in the examples below with one of the words in the chart in the correct form.