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Mice eating rare seabirds alive
Level 1
Elementary
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Mice eating rare seabirds alive
Level 1
Elementary
Comprehension check
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1. It will cost about £2.6 million…
2. The UK government helped the RSPB...
3. The problem is that…
4. Helicopters…
5. More than half the baby birds on Gough Island…
6. The mice on Gough Island…
a. … die in their nests.
b. … the chicks cannot defend themselves.
c. … to kill all the mice on Gough Island.
d. … are the biggest mice in the world.
e. … will drop thousands of tonnes of rat poison on the island.
f. … to discover the problem and conduct the study. 
Match the beginnings and endings to make sentences about the text.
Word building: Nouns and adjectives 
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Complete the table using words from the text.
noun
adjective
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rock
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shock
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profession
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globe
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disaster
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hill
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Mice eating rare seabirds alive
Level 1
Elementary
Verbs
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Match the verbs in the left-hand column with the words in the right-hand column to make expressions from 
the text. Check your answers in the text.
1. spend
a. £2.6 million
2. finalize 
b. a list
3. keep
c. time (a year)
4. weigh
d. in size
5. cost
e. ten kilograms
6. increase 
f. a plan
Irregular plural forms
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Complete the table.