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TIMESAVER LONDON! past simple; multi-word verbs

London Zoo is in Regent’s Park near the centre of London. It’s open every day of the year except Christmas Day. There are 600 different species (kinds) of animals, birds, insects and reptiles there. It has changed a lot since it first opened in 1828, and although many people now think it’s cruel to keep animals in zoos, it’s a good place to protect* animals in danger and to educate people, especially children, about the natural world. Some of the animals became living legends in their lifetimes.

Guy the Guy got his name from the day when he was born – Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th). He was born in 1947 and arrived at the zoo holding a little metal* hot water bottle. He was very gentle and everyone loved him. When sparrows* flew into his enclosure (the space where he lived), he picked them up* gently in his hand, looked at them closely, and then let them fly away. Signs everywhere told the visitors not to feed the animals, but people gave Guy sweets and he got toothache. He died during an operation* to remove his tooth. There’s a statue of Guy at London Zoo. VOCABULARY CHECK LIST Belinda, the Bird-eating Spider What is it in Belinda died in 1993 when she was 23 years your language? old. She was a great advert* for London Zoo Find out! because she helped hundreds of people to protect conquer* their spider phobia. The zoo allowed people to hold beautiful Belinda in metal their hands and usually this cured them.

Winnie, the Black Bear sparrow Winnie arrived at the zoo in 1914. A. A. Milne, the children’s writer, took his young son, Christopher Robin, to the zoo and he began to make up stories to pick up about the bear. These were the first stories about Winnie-the-Pooh. operation Goldie, the Golden Eagle Goldie escaped in 1965 and advert thousands of people went to Regent’s Park to watch him to conquer flying from tree to tree. It caused big traffic jams* around the area near the Park. He was traffic jams free for eleven days and he became a national hero. www.londonzoo.co.uk

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The Zoo Maze This is the story of London Zoo. Choose the correct verb to complete each sentence. Take the letters next to the correct verbs to find the popular name for some of the Zoo’s favourite animals, the okapi.

START A herd of sheep and In 1850 the first The Regent’s Park Zoo F goats ...... from G hippopotamus opened in 1828 but London docks to the zoo (since Roman times) WOULDN’T WALKED ordinary people with the new African arrived. The number ...... couldn’t visit it animals to provide milk of visitors to the Zoo until 1847. to feed them...... E S N A J COULDN’T TRANSLATED TWICED L DOUBLED ARRIVED SAILED

In 1832 zoo keepers In the late 1840s, ...... U Tommy, the first excited Victorian an elephant, , women ...... TRANSFERRED an alligator, a boa, ...... at the their parasols an anaconda and 100 Zoo in a stagecoach through the bars of the rattlesnakes from the with his keeper. cages to try to touch Tower of London. the animals. B E C CLOSED DYED W WENT POKED M PULLED

In 1853, the world’s During World War II, first reptile house G The first lion keepers ...... of a the dangerous animals DIED broken heart in 1840 to Ireland for safety after the death of and people ate the his mate. edible fish. D F I OPENED KISSED CAME E TOOK

A keeper tried to After the War, charm the cobra, but T The first koala bear G London Zoo it ...... him to live outside ...... their first ESCAPED BROUGHT between the eyes Australia ...... giant panda and their and he died. to the Zoo in 1880. first polar bear. Y R R BIT EAT F HURRIED BREAD S BRED

A giant ant eater Everyone ...... also arrived in the A to see Alice and I 1850s. It ...... Jumbo, the two new ATE WORRIED FINISH 50 eggs a day. elephants who arrived in 1867.

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