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1,2 - THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY Elementary


… production might be more efficient and prices might be lower.
b

… some oil companies believe there is more oil there.
c

… it controls 25% of the world’s oil.
d

… because Iraq has a lot of oil.
e

… they are bad for the environment.
f

… it will be very expensive to introduce a big change in energy policy.
g

… Zimbabwe doesn’t have any oil.
h

… it uses more oil than it produces.


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America’s crude tactics for Iraq war
Level 1 | 
Elementary
4
5
Vocabulary: Word Building
Complete the table
VERB
NOUN
1

modernise
____________
2

reduce
____________
3

produce
____________
4

choose
____________
5

introduce
____________
6

invite
____________
6
Vocabulary: Word Game
Re-arrange these letters to spell words from the text:
1

ulraenc
2

myocone
3

sprnoieims
4

dtrpnoiuco
5

dtniuysr
6

ssilepup
6

The US wants a bigger ____________ of the world’s oil.
7

Many governments kill and ____________ their own people.
8

____________ weapons can kill millions of people.
9

The world has to ____________ the amount of oil it uses.
10

If something is ____________ it works very well.



Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2004 
Taken from the news section in 
www.onestopenglish.com
Fill the gaps using these words: 
illegal ban 
habitat tusks 
moratorium 
poacher 
compensation 
ivory 
regulated 
resources 
1. 
The two long, pointed teeth which elephants have are called ____________.
2.
Tusks are made of ____________. 
3.
A ____________ is an official agreement to stop an activity for a temporary 
period. 
4.
If something is ____________, it is against the law. 
5.
If something is ____________, it is officially controlled. 
6.
A ____________ is an illegal hunter. 
7.
Natural ____________ are things such as coal, trees, oil and, in this case, 
animals. 
8.
The place where an animal lives is called its ____________ . 
9.
If you ____________ something, you make it illegal. 
10. Money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them is 
called ____________. 
1.
How many elephant tusks did the author of the article burn? 
2.
How much were the tusks worth? 
3.
What was the elephant population of Africa at the beginning of the 1980s? 
4.
What was the elephant population of Africa at the end of the 1980s? 
5.
What percentage of its elephants did Kenya lose? 
6.
What does ‘Cites’ mean? 



Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2004 
Taken from the news section in 
www.onestopenglish.com

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