Words in the News (7th January 2015): How many in the zoo?
For vocabulary and exercises: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/witn/ep-150107
Transcript
One, two, three… It's census time at London Zoo.
Zookeepers are kicking off the New Year with the mammoth task of counting every single animal. The zoo houses more than 750 different species.
For penguins, food is an incentive to show up for the count.
Monkeys are known to be clever animals. Here the question is: who's counting who?
Vocabulary
census
official count of the population
kicking off
starting
mammoth task
very big task
houses
gives a place to live
incentive
encouragement
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