37 bricks We are told that ‘they [=builders/housing
developers] removed tons and tons of the sand and
turned it [=the sand] into bricks’.
38 eggs The speaker explains that that the metalmark
butterfly lays its eggs on the buckwheat plant, and
on no other.
39 fire In the recording ‘wildlife’ is explained as
‘butterflies and plants’ and we are told that fire has
destroyed a significant number of them [= it has led
to their loss].
40 conservation The speaker explains that while
some projects involving conservation need a lot of
land, others do not. In the case of the metalmark
butterfly, it only needed the area of the dunes to
survive.
READing PASSAgE 1 Training Useful strategy: identifying key words and phrases 1 2 A newspaper report in the Sydney Daily Times
contained factual errors.
3 Some academics have criticised the theory put
forward by Dr Jonathan Purdie.
4 Whales
off the coast of South Africa behave in the
same way as whales in New Zealand waters.
5 The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine was modified and
improved in its first years in production.
6 The British public held a wide variety of opinions
on this topic, according to a survey completed by
over 3,000 people.
2 Most of these might be used as locating words, but NOT
y
an adverb or adjective
y
prepositions and conjunctions
Therefore, the locating words are usually clear noun
phrases and very often proper nouns.
Useful strategy: identifying words with a similar meaning 1 1 C
2 F
3 A
4 D
5 B
6 E
