Topic 2. The saiga antelope, or saiga, is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast.
Once numbering in the millions, the saiga population crashed by 95% in fifteen years, the fastest decline ever recorded for a mammal species. They are now critically endangered. In May and early June of 2015, over 200,000 saiga in central Kazakhstan died suddenly due to a respiratory illness.
Saiga is a relatively small cloven-hoofed animal, body length 110-146 cm, tail 8-12 cm, height at the withers 60-79 cm. Weight 23-40 kg. Saiga lives in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and western Mongolia. In 2002, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, this species was classified as "CR", that is, "in critical condition." Saiga are on the verge of extinction, because poachers hunt for their skins and meat. We need to build more nature
Dear Mark, Thank you for your letter. You asked me for some advise about swimming. In my opinion it's necessary to be able to swim. It's a must. Well, it's all right to start swimming at your age. I don't think that it's difficult to learn to swim, so you won't need to have a lot of swimming lessons! So I only wish you success! And what about doing some other sports? Do you like, for example, jogging? Or can you play volleyball? What is your favourite kind of sport? That's all for now. Well, I'd better go now as my mum's calling me for dinner. Keep in touch. Best wishes, Alex
1. Will you wait __for__ me, I`ll come __in__ a minute. 2. Are you ready __for__ the answer? 3. Have some fruit __for__ pleasure. 4. Help yourself __to__ some fruit, please. 5. I prefer an apple __to__ ice-cream. 6. The children are ready __for__ breakfast. They are waiting __for__ their father. 7. Let`s to have some herring to begin __with__. 8. What do you say _about___ an ice-cream? 9. As __for__ me I prefer a piece of cake _to___ sweets. 10. A waitress is coming __to__ our table. What shall we order? 11. The pudding is __to__ your taste, I hope. 12. Father usually comes home __on__ time. 13. We must pay the waitress __for__ the dinner. 14. He is leaving __for__ St. Petersburg, you know. 15. The bell is ringing and the students are leaving ___ the room.
The saiga antelope, or saiga, is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast.
Once numbering in the millions, the saiga population crashed by 95% in fifteen years, the fastest decline ever recorded for a mammal species. They are now critically endangered. In May and early June of 2015, over 200,000 saiga in central Kazakhstan died suddenly due to a respiratory illness.
Saiga is a relatively small cloven-hoofed animal, body length 110-146 cm, tail 8-12 cm, height at the withers 60-79 cm. Weight 23-40 kg. Saiga lives in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and western Mongolia. In 2002, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, this species was classified as "CR", that is, "in critical condition." Saiga are on the verge of extinction, because poachers hunt for their skins and meat.
We need to build more nature