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energy efficiency
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to buy
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a fuss
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to destabilise
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emissions
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1 Key Verbs
1c; 2g; 3a; 4i; 5f; 6b; 7d; 8e; 9h
2 What do you know?
1T; 2F; 3F; 4F; 5T; 6F
3 Comprehension Check
1c; 2a; 3a; 4c; 5b
4 Word Building – Collocations
1d; 2f; 3a; 4h; 5I; 6j; 7b; 8c; 9g; 10e
5 Adjectives
1 repressive
2 vulnerable
3 intact
4 convinced
5 naïve
6 autocratic
7. costly
Key

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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? 

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Taken from the news section in 
www.onestopenglish.com