1. Unit 4 Animals section A Text I Little Brother of the Wolf By Cleveland Amory

2. What is a coyote? The coyote is a member of the dog family. A small, wolf-like carnivorous animal native to western North America and found in many other regions of the continent.

3. Reading comprehension 1. Little brother of the wolf 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. A 10. A

4. Outline 1. The coyote has to be clever because it has to save itself from human being’s merciless hunting. 2. Cruel hunting of coyotes  They are hunted for no proper reasons.  People hunt coyote all the year round, in the winter and in the summer.  They are hunted by land and by air.

5. clevernessloyalty 3. Coyotes’ cleverness and loyalty shown in the events of trapping and hunting them.  There are many stories of coyotes outwitting hunters. Jump on automobiles and flat cars to escape dogs. Successfully resist bombing. They chew off their legs to escape.  They are completely loyal to their families. The nursing mother would never endanger her young. The father coyote acted as a decoy in order to let his young to escape.

6. 4. “Humane Coyote-Getter”  It is actually a whole trap gun.  It seems humane, for it only poisons coyotes, not like the general way of killing them.

7. 5. Protection of coyotes  Many societies have been trying hard to protect coyotes.  President Nixon issued his Executive Order to ban the use of most predator poisons on public land.  The Fund of Animals announced a reward of $500 for information which leads to the stopping of the hunting of coyotes.  One solution is to make a pet out of a coyote.

8. Vocabulary building exclude vt.  exclusion n.  exclusive adj.  exclusively adv. include (ant.)  inclusion  inclusive  inclusively amaze vt.  amazement n.  amazed adj.  amazing adj.  amazedly adv.  amazingly adv.

9. betray vt.  betrayal n.  betrayer n. danger n.  dangerous adj.  endanger v.  endangered adj.

10. marvel n. wonder v. to become filled with wonder or astonishment (marvel at)  marvelous adj.  (marvellous) moisture n.  moist adj.  moisten v.

11. die vt.  death n.  dead adj.  deadly adj.  dead adv. a dead man You can be dead sure of my innocence. deadly weapons humane adj.  humanely adv.  inhumane adj.  inhumanely adv.  human n.  humanity n.  humanism n.  humanist n.  humanitarianism n.  humanitarian n.