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Jane Goodall - Gombe Listening Gap Fill

🎧 Listen to the extract and type the missing noun in each gap. Then click CHECK ANSWERS.

                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.

Jane Goodall & David Attenborough — Comparisons

✏️ Complete each sentence. Type the correct comparison in the gap. The three structures are deliberately mixed.

🌿 COMPLETE THE COMPARISONS

1. Attenborough is one of the natural-history broadcasters of all time. (influential)

2. Goodall's early field research was than the work of a television presenter. (hands-on)

3. Jane Goodall's commitment to conservation is David Attenborough's. (strong)

4. Attenborough has worked on than most naturalists. (many)

5. Goodall became one of the researchers in the study of chimpanzees. (respected)

6. Both careers have been each other in raising awareness of wildlife. (important)

7. Attenborough is Jane Goodall. (old)

8. Life on Earth is among Attenborough's television projects. (well-known)

9. Goodall's observations of chimpanzees were many discoveries in animal behaviour. (significant)

10. Goodall travelled than Attenborough during her research career. (widely / more or less?)

11. For many viewers, Attenborough has one of the voices in wildlife broadcasting. (recognisable)

12. Goodall's chimpanzee research was Attenborough's work across many species. (specialised)

13. Attenborough's documentaries can be Goodall's books and lectures. (educational)

14. Gombe became one of the places for long-term chimpanzee research. (famous)

15. Attenborough's television work reached Goodall's early scientific field reports. (many)

💡 REMEMBER: Comparative = -er / more + adjective + than. Superlative = the -est / the most + adjective. Equative = as + adjective + as. Irregular examples: good → better → best and many/much → more → most.

JANE GOODALL — GOMBE LISTENING

JANE GOODALL & DAVID ATTENBOROUGH — COMPARISONS