6 Living with the past

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**6 Living with the Past** **Word Formation (Part 3)** ► **EXAM FOCUS p.179** **1. Work in pairs and discuss the questions.** 1. What do you think life was like 10,000 years ago? 2. Do you think people in the Stone Age were happier and less stressed? Why/Why not? **2. Work in pairs. Read the article quickly and see how many facts about the mammoth you can remember.** **A MAMMOTH FIND** Zoologists now believe that mammoths, which died out around 4,000 years ago, were driven to (0) extinction by humans as well as by climate change. A mammoth, named Jenya after the eleven-year-old boy who made the astonishing find, is thought to be the most (1) prehistoric animal of its kind. A mammoth has not been found since 1901, so this discovery has been even (2) more exciting. Lyudmila’s remains were excavated from the Siberian permafrost and taken to St. Petersburg for (3) tests. These tests show that Jenya was fifteen years old, two metres tall, and weighed 500 kilograms, which makes him (4) smaller than other mammoths previously found. He also had a missing left tusk, and it was (5) probably the cause that led to his death. He would have been (6) involved in fights with othe...