Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward

2a Wildlife
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Can do (tick ✓)
I can use will /won’t + infinitive to talk about repeated behaviour.
I can use keep + verb + -ing to talk about repeated behaviour.
I can find a series of linked points in an article.
I can discuss a controversial issue.
Dangerous animals
Which of these animals do you think is the most dangerous to man Put them in order from
1 (the most dangerous) to 5 (the least dangerous).
lion rhino crocodile hippopotamus gorilla
but the most dangerous creature is …
Quite possibly the common housefly! Some scientists
say it is the most dangerous
creature on earth because it can carry over 2OO
different pathogenic microorganisms, like bacteria
and viruses. But the most dangerous creature
must surely be the mosquito, which is
responsible for the deaths of more humans
every year than any other creature.
Where in the world
Match these animals to the continents they are usually associated with.
1 moose Australasia
2 yak Antarctica
3 penguin North America
4 wallaby South America
5 llama Asia
‘There’s nowhere to get a
decent drink around here.’
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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into
things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from and (d) rocks.
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Terry Pratchett (British fantasy author, 1948–)