121 What I need to remember about writing reports is … Printed books will/will not go out of fashion because … Looking back: Complete the way2go! learning portfolio for Unit 08 (online code 4w8fh3). Revision: The passive Complete the text with the passive form of the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. The first one has been done for you. LANGUAGE 39 In search of the Tasmanian tiger The thylacine, an animal which looks a bit like a large dog with stripes, (1) is better known (know) by its popular name: the Tasmanian tiger. Officially, it (2) (declare) extinct in 1936, but even today, thylacine sightings (3) (report) regularly, and blurry photographs of mysterious animals (4) (share) on social media all the time. For example, in February 2023, a new photograph from a camera trap (5) (present) to the Thylacine Awareness Society of Australia at their annual meeting. Members of the society (6) (tell) that the photo, which (7) (take) in an Australian forest a few weeks before, showed a family of Tasmanian tigers. However, when the photo (8) (analyse) by experts immediately after the meeting, it (9) (find) to be a case of mistaken identity. The animals in the photograph were not Tasmanian tigers, but some other type of large mammal*. “It is very disappointing that yet another photograph (10) (show) to be fake,” the president of the Thylacine Awareness Society said. “But I believe that someday soon, live Tasmanian tigers (11) (discover). They are out there somewhere.” While the members of the Thylacine Awareness Society believe that Tasmanian tigers are still alive, some scientists claim that they (12) (return) to life by science in the near future using thylacine DNA. “The Tasmanian tiger only went extinct because humans hunted it,” says Andrew Pask, a geneticist. “Wouldn’t it be great if humans could bring it back now, after all this time?” * mammal: an animal that gives birth to babies rather than laying eggs, and feeds its young with milk (Säugetier) Way more! Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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