JANE GOODALL — GOMBE LISTENING
Gap-fill activity: listen and complete the missing nouns.
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0:10
Louis Leakey sent me to Gombe because he believed that
an
of chimpanzees in the wild would help him to better guess
how our Stone-Age
may have behaved.
0:34
It had long been thought that we were the only
on earth that used and made
.
0:46
“Man the
” is how we were defined.
0:48
And here was David Greybeard using a
.
1:06
A few
later, I watched, spellbound, as chimps set off to a termite
,
picked a small, leafy
and stripped it of its
.
1:18
That was object
,
the crude beginning of
.
1:27
It had never been seen before.
1:41
When I telegrammed the
to Louis, he responded that we must now redefine man
or accept chimpanzees as human.
1:54
My
at Gombe challenged human
.
1:58
And whenever that happens, there is always a violent
.
2:04
There were some who would try to discredit my observations
because I was a young, untrained
,
who should therefore be disregarded.
2:14
The
of it all, however, is that Louis was able to obtain a
from the National Geographic
to continue my
.
2:25
In addition, they would be sending out a
to document the chimpanzees.
💡 LISTENING TIP:
Listen for the words before and after each gap.
Think about what kind of noun fits grammatically and
what word you hear in the recording.