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Task 3(5 min) a. Read the text again and try to find answers to the questions you have written on the board. b. answer the following questions if they are not on the board.  Where do the Yanomami live?  What do they eat?  Where do they sleep?  What is the problem with the Amazon? Task 4 (5 min) Find on the map the Amazon river. Where is it situated? What is the special about it? Task 5 (5 min) The words: they, them, their are used in the text to refer to other words. Read the following sentences from the text and find out where the words in bold refer to:  For them, the forest is their mother and the water is their father  …they need the wood or more land for their animals and crops  Isn’t it time to do something about it? Task 6. (5 min) Find words in the text that mean the following:        We dig in it to plant trees or vegetables: A small kind of boat: A kind of house for the Yanomami: People who build roads and houses: They use them to kill animals: A very wide road where cars can go very fast: To make a sick person be well: Task 7. (4 min) Answer the following questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Why is for the Yanomamis the forest their mother and the water their father? Why are they happy? Why will the rain wash away the soil? Why will the animals go away? Why is the climate changing? Task 8 (8 min) Use the words from the table to write a summary of the text something, Yanomami, happy, bows and arrows, need, highway, plants, wood, Amazon, land, forest. 27