Natural world & environment Listening Upper Intermediate B2: New Zealand volunteers in race to rescue hundreds of whales BBC 5 March, 201727 April, 2022 blogdeserena Photo by Silvana Palacios on Pexels.com Topic: The Natural World 0% Created by blogdeserena B2-C1 LISTENING New Zealand volunteers in race to rescue hundreds of whales - You are going to watch a video from BBC New about the rescue of hundreds of stranded whales. Video from BBC News Activity by S.Farr 1.Volunteers attend the whales while... waiting for high tide. waiting for help from specialists. waiting for rescue workers to arrive on Friday. 2. On Thursday rescue services had been... postponed until the following day. operative all night. successful until the following day. 3. The woman that was interviewed stated that... by the time the discovery had been made, most of the whales had already died. it had been the worst mass stranding recorded. there had been two other mass stranding issues that had included larger pods of whales. 4. Of the 400 whales that had beached themselves... many had managed to survive to swim away. more than a hundred managed to escape the low tide. a large group that managed to swim away were washed back onto the shore. 5. The many volunteers are... from all parts of the world. are only the locals. mainly hitchhikers. 6. The last largest recorded whale strand was... at Golden Bay. Auckland. of less than 450. 7. Volunteers will... attempt to make the whales float again the next day. attend whales until the following day. keep the whales afloat during the night. Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte share thisTwitterFacebookWhatsAppLike this:Like Loading... Related share thisTwitterFacebookWhatsAppLike this:Like Loading...