TEST
Woolly mammoths on St Paul’s Island
TUTOR:
So, Rosie and Martin, let’s look at what you’ve got for your presentation on woolly mammoths.
ROSIE:
OK, we’ve got a short outline here.
TUTOR:
Thanks. So it’s about a research project in North America?
MARTIN:
Yes. But we thought we needed something general about woolly
mammoths in our introduction,
to establish that they were related to our modern elephant,
and they lived thousands of
years ago in the last ice age.
ROSIE:
Maybe we could show a video clip of a cartoon about mammoths. But that’d be a bit childish.
Or we could have a diagram,
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it could be a timeline to show when they lived, with
illustrations?
MARTIN:
Or we could just show a drawing of them walking in the ice? No, let’s go with your last
suggestion.
TUTOR:
Good. Then you’re describing the discovery of the mammoth tooth on St Paul’s
Island in
Alaska, and why it was significant.
ROSIE:
Yes. The tooth was found by a man called Russell Graham. He picked it up from under a
rock in a cave. He knew it was special – for a start it
was in really good condition, as if it
had been just extracted from the animal’s jawbone. Anyway, they found it was 6,500
years
old.
TUTOR:
So why was that significant?
ROSIE: Well
