Practice Listening English Exercises for A2 – The Lost World

3 esercizi

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1)
Read the following summary, then listen and underline the correct word.
Professor James Kearns opened his eyes, and everything was different. Suddenly a giant (1) ) snake/lizard ran from the forest and tried to attack him. Then many of them appeared. They all walked on (2) ) two/four feet and had long tails. They were called (3) ) brontosauruses/velociraptors and they were dinosaurs which liked to kill in groups. They were about to attack him when a huge tyrannosaurus broke through the (4) ) mountains/treesIt grabbed and killed (5) ) one/two of the creatures. The others ran away in fear. The professor found a (6) ) house/cave to hide in. The next day, as he was picking fruit he saw a baby dinosaur, no bigger than a (7) ) chicken/rabbitHe tried to touch it but a (8) ) man/woman pushed him out of the way. She held her (9) ) spear/sword near the dinosaur’s mouth. The baby dinosaur took a large bite out of it. James tried to speak to her but a flying (10) ) pterodactyl/pteranodon swooped down and picked James up with its sharp (11) ) claws/teeth

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2)
You will hear a museum guide talking to some children about the dinosaur exhibits in the museum. Read the table then listen and fill in the missing information.

	habitat	food	size	weight	special features
Compsognathus	all over the (1) except in Antarctica	meat	(2) cm tall	(3) kilos	very fast (4)
Pteranodon	(5), Asia and North America	(6)	(7) bodies	very light	very long beak
Velociraptor	(8)	small animals	medium size	(9) kilos	strong, fast runners, (10) claws
Tyrannosaurus	(11) America and East Asia	other big dinosaurs	(12) metres tall	very (13)	strong legs, long (14)

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3)
First read the notes then listen to the second part of what the museum guide said to these children and underline the correct words.
dinosaurs disappeared 150/65 million years ago
Theories about why they disappeared:
Theory A:
– a giant meteorite from space hit/broke the earth
– huge dust clouds rose up and blocked the moon/sunlight
– all plants died and dinosaurs starved or froze/burned to death
Theory B:
– climate changed a lot/a little because the continents were moving around
– summers got hotter/colder and winters got hotter/colder
– dinosaurs had such big problems with these changes that they died
Theory C:
– a poisonous plant/animal appeared which killed dinosaurs
– as a result the meat-eating dinosaurs had no food, so they died

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