Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD

Listen to the version on the CD and compare it with yours. Which do you think is better? Why? Writing station Use the notes to write a text about the famous American zoologist Dian Fossey. Think carefully about how to connect the points and which linking words to use. 8 Dian Fossey (1932–1985) always interested in animals • San Jose State College, veterinary studies • changed degree to occupational therapist • several years as director of the occupational therapy department • at the Kosair Crippled Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky 1963 – Africa, met renowned palaeontologists Mary and • Louis Leakey, inspired to study mountain gorillas 1966 – Congo to live with and study gorillas • 1967 – military uprising, arrested and forced to leave country • went to Rwanda, set up Karisoke Research Centre • time divided between studying gorillas in the wild and studying • for PhD at Cambridge University 1983 wrote “Gorillas in the Mist”, an account of her life, • made into film with Sigourney Weaver 1985 murdered at her camp, crime still a mystery • very courageous and dedicated • 1 • st human to make contact with gorillas her studies led to a greater understanding of gorillas • also campaigned against the illegal killing of gorillas • and destruction of their habitat 2/13 Reading tips Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything (Black Swan 2004) Eastaway, Rob/Wyndham, Jeremy: Why Do Buses Come in Threes?:  The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life (Robson 1999) Feynman, Richard: The Meaning of It All (Allen Lane 1998) Fisher, Len: How to Dunk a Doughnut: Using Science in Everyday Life  (Weidenfeld&Nicolson 2002) Gleick, James: Chaos. Making a New Science (Penguin 1988) Gleick, James: Faster: Our Race Against Time (Abacus 2000) Lightman, Alan: The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in  20thCentury Science, Including the Original Papers (Pantheon 2005) Littell, Robert: The Visiting Professor (faber&faber 1993) Palca, Joe/Lichtman, Flora: Annoying. The Science of What Bugs Us  (Wiley 2011) Penrose, Roger: The Emperor’s New Mind (OUP 1989) Preston, Richard: The Cobra Event (Orion 1998) Reichs, Kathy: Virals (Razorbill 2010) Rucker, Rudy (ed.): Mathenauts (NEL 1989) Singh, Simon: Fermat’s Last Theorem (Fourth Estate 1994) 9 200 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv