Aprenda inglés en el zoológico de Londres

Cuentan más de 750 especies en el censo realizado en el zoo londinense. Vea el video y aprenda nuevo vocabulario.

Transcripción en inglés

One, two, three… It’s census time at London Zoo.

Zookeepers are kicking off the New Year with the mammoth task of counting every single animal. The zoo houses more than 750 different species.

For penguins, food is an incentive to show up for the count.

Monkeys are known to be clever animals. Here the question is: who's counting who?

Vocabulario

census censo

kicking off (están) comenzando

mammoth task tarea enorme

houses alberga

incentive incentivo

Ejercicios

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from news reports. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.

census / kicking off / mammoth task / houses / incentive

1. The fall in the price of coal is a classic case of supply and demand, says senior economist at St George Bank, Janu Chan.

"Over the past decade, prices went up. There was an __________ to increase coal supply, and more mines opened or became profitable. However, as capacity increased, it generated too much coal and prices fell again."

2. A man with a collection of nearly 500 radio sets, some dating back to the early 1900s, has opened a museum to __________ them in a former Suffolk chapel.

3. In 1911, as far as work went, the government just wanted to know occupation, industry, and status. In 2011, the __________ has 15 nuanced questions on work and employment.

4. The Franco-German meeting in Paris __________ a week of meetings involving European leaders, the European Central Bank (ECB) and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, culminating in Brussels on Friday with an EU summit.

5. In Kazinga, MSF assembled a team of 55 porters to carry all the equipment necessary to perform the __________of vaccinating communities far removed from any kind of infrastructure.

Respuestas

1. The fall in the price of coal is a classic case of supply and demand, says senior economist at St George Bank, Janu Chan.

“Over the past decade, prices went up. There was an incentive to increase coal supply, and more mines opened or became profitable. However, as capacity increased, it generated too much coal and prices fell again.”

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> From boom to bust in Australia’s mining towns</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30584123" platform="highweb"/></link>

2. A man with a collection of nearly 500 radio sets, some dating back to the early 1900s, has opened a museum to house them in a former Suffolk chapel.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> Monks Eleigh radio museum: Paul Goodchild finds home for 500 sets</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-30476959" platform="highweb"/></link>

3. In 1911, as far as work went, the government just wanted to know occupation, industry, and status. In 2011, the census has 15 nuanced questions on work and employment.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> Census: 1911 v 2011</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12324970" platform="highweb"/></link>

4. The Franco-German meeting in Paris kicks off a week of meetings involving European leaders, the European Central Bank (ECB) and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, culminating in Brussels on Friday with an EU summit.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> Sarkozy and Merkel kick off week of euro crisis talks</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16026270" platform="highweb"/></link>

5. In Kazinga, MSF assembled a team of 55 porters to carry all the equipment necessary to perform the mammoth task of vaccinating communities far removed from any kind of infrastructure.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> Into the bush: Vaccinating a remote community</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-30035323" platform="highweb"/></link>