"hindquarters" - 1 õppematerjal

ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

(vaata lähemalt Moodle, Inglise keele grammatika täiskursus, Asking questions and making sentences negative, Indirect questions). 7. … 8.  9. Read the following text and do the two exercises below. The Great Wildebeest Trek Far to the South, where Gol Kopjes rose like ruined castles from the short-grass plains of the Serengeti, a female wildebeest (A) chomped methodically at the close-knit (B) turf. Only her hindquarters, deeply scarred where a lioness had once almost succeeded in clawing her down, distinguished her from her companions, a harem of perhaps two dozen wildebeest cows, many of them accompanied by their calves, gathered together under the watchful eyes of a mature breeding bull. It was a pattern which repeated itself across the plains in every direction as far as the eye could see. Every year the wildebeest nations of the Serengeti congregated here towards the year’s end, and