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The document provides listening practice about llamas by presenting exercises to match vocabulary, identify true/false statements, and fill in gaps while listening to a zoo guide talk about llamas. It discusses how llamas, alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos are related to camels; the differences between their sizes and wool; and how llamas hum when stressed or relaxed while vicuñas can only be shorn every three years. It also mentions llamas protecting livestock from dogs and foxes.

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Listennnn Mariely

The document provides listening practice about llamas by presenting exercises to match vocabulary, identify true/false statements, and fill in gaps while listening to a zoo guide talk about llamas. It discusses how llamas, alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos are related to camels; the differences between their sizes and wool; and how llamas hum when stressed or relaxed while vicuñas can only be shorn every three years. It also mentions llamas protecting livestock from dogs and foxes.

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Listening skills practice: Llamas – exercises

Listen to the zoo guide talking about the llamas and do the exercise to practice and improve your listening
skills.

1. Preparation: matching
Do this exercise before you listen. Match the vocabulary with the correct definition and write a – e next to
the numbers 1 – 5.

1……D. to spit a. to make a continuous sound with the lips closed

to shear (past participle


2 C b. soft thick hair that grows on the bodies of animals like sheep
= shorn)

3……B.. wool c. to cut the wool off a sheep or similar animal

4……E.. to lick d. to force out liquid from the mouth

5……A.. to hum e. to pass the tongue over a surface

2. Check your understanding: true or false


Do this exercise while you listen. Circle True or False for these sentences.

1. Llamas, alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos are all related to camels. True False

2. Llamas are the smallest of the four. True False

3. Llamas only spit at humans if you treat them badly. True False

4. Alpacas look as if they are sad. True False

5. Alpaca wool is good for clothes. True False

6. Vicuña wool is very expensive. True False

7. Vicuñas eat cacti. True False

8. Llamas and alpacas can’t live in the UK. True False


3. Check your understanding: gap fill
Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

dogs wild stressed relaxed

warmer gentle three softer

herds curious foxes 4,000 metres

Llamas and alpacas are both domesticated animals and vicuñas and guanacos are WILD
1. _______________.

Llamas are very sociable animals and live together in groups, in HERDS_.
2.
They respond well to being trained and they are usually GENTLE ________ and CURIOUS
3. _______________.
The alpaca is famous for its wool, which is SOFTER_______and WARMER _______ than sheep’s
4. wool.

Vicuñas can only be shorn of their wool every THREE years.


5.
Guanacos are capable of surviving at over 4,000 METRES in the Andes.
6.
Llamas hum when they are STRESSED , or the opposite, feeling RELAXED_.
7.
Sometimes farmers use llama to protect sheep and hens from animals that might attack them, like
8. ___________DOGS____ or _________ FOXES_

What’s your favourite wild animal? Why?

DOGS

Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learnt in this lesson.

STRESSED
HERDS
GENTLE
SHEEP

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