This text is about a biologist and conservationist Roger Payne. He discovered that whales sing and their songs can be heard across entire oceans.
Before he studied whales he had become an expert in animal acoustics. In 1967 Roger went to Bermuda where he met Frank Watlington. Frank told Roger about strange sounds that he had heard underwater. Frank thought the noises were coming from whales.
After that Payne and his colleague Scott McVay found out that the sounds were whales' songs which could travel across entire oceans. It happened at the time when hunters killed thousands of whales. Roger Payne released a recording of whale songs and it helped to start the 'Save the Whales' movement. In 1986 commercial whaling was banned.
Payne still is busy studying and protecting whales.
1 After I shut the door, I realised that I had left my glasses inside.
2 The children still were still sleeping when I went to work this morning.
3 How did she feel when she answered the phone?
4 Was the sun shining when you left the house?
5 The singer came on stage and the audience began to clap.
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2 Complete the sentences. Use the past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs below. There is one verb that you do not need.
eat give be see start steal
1 He couldn’t find his car this morning because someone had stolen it.
2 Why did you start to learn Chinese when you were in school?
3 I took the dog for a walk while you were eating your lunch.
4 I looked out of the window and realised that I was on the wrong train.
5 I knew I wouldn't like the film because I had seen it before.
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