Aprenda inglés con un lince en Reino Unido

Un grupo conservacionista quiere reintroducir linces en la Gran Bretaña. Vea el video y aprenda nuevo vocabulario.

Transcripción en inglés

Elusive, shy and an excellent predator… but the lynx was hunted to extinction in Britain over 1,000 years ago.

Now, a conservation group plans to reintroduce the species to the wild. They say they aren’t dangerous to humans, and claim that with an overpopulation of deer, the lynx will help rebalance the ecosystem.

But first, they’ll have to convince farmers who think the animal would pose a threat to livestock.

Vocabulario

elusive escurridizo / esquivo / huidizo

predator depredador

ecosystem ecosistema

pose a threat representar una amenaza

livestock animales criados en una granja

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.

elusive / predator / ecosystem / pose a threat / livestock

1. Lions are among the fiercest modern _________.

2. Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines __________ to our very existence.

3. A new study suggests that the production of beef is around 10 times more damaging to the environment than any other form of _________.

4. The huts, and the luxury items inside, belong to Dairo Antonio Usuga David, better known as Otoniel, one of the most wanted men in Colombia. Currently some 1,200 members of the security forces are chasing the _________ gang leader.

5. The Sundarbans mangrove forests along the coastline of India and Bangladesh – a delicately balanced _________ that protects the densely populated Bay of Bengal from the worst extremes of nature – is home to the endangered royal Bengal tiger.

Respuestas

1. Lions are among the fiercest modern predators.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> What was Earth's first predator and when did it live?</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141202-what-was-earths-first-predator" platform="highweb"/></link>

2. Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30290540" platform="highweb"/></link>

3. A new study suggests that the production of beef is around 10 times more damaging to the environment than any other form of livestock.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> Beef environment cost 10 times that of other livestock</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28409704" platform="highweb"/></link>

4. The huts, and the luxury items inside, belong to Dairo Antonio Usuga David, better known as Otoniel, one of the most wanted men in Colombia. Currently some 1,200 members of the security forces are chasing the elusive gang leader.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> Colombia's hunt for elusive drug lord Otoniel</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-32014665" platform="highweb"/></link>

5. The Sundarbans mangrove forests along the coastline of India and Bangladesh – a delicately balanced ecosystem that protects the densely populated Bay of Bengal from the worst extremes of nature - is home to the endangered Bengal tiger.

<bold>Source</bold>: <link type="page"><caption> Tigers, fisherman and the forest</caption><url href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-32301600#1" platform="highweb"/></link>