2.10 Self-Test A Procedure
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How to do Whale Watching
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Paragraph 1. | Here is how you can go whale watching if you really want to see whales. You will need to take with you a hat, sunblock and a pair of binoculars. | |
Paragraph 2. | 1. 1Contact your local 3tourist information centre to find out the sites where there are organized tours and facilities for whale watchers or 1contact the Whale Watching Information Centre for 3places where whales can be sighted. | 1. 2. |
Paragraph 3. | 2. If you do not choose to go on a tourist 3ship, then, 2between June and October, when you have decided where you wish to go, 1choose either to watch the whales 2from a headland, or 1go out in your boat 2into the bay or 1fly over the 3area 2in your plane. | 3. |
Paragraph 4. | 3. No matter which way you choose, in order to have a close look at the whales, 1take a pair of good 3binoculars. | 4. |
Paragraph 5. | 4. 1Look for the blow of the whale which is a cloud of spray or mist that the 3whale creates as it exhales air through its blowhole. This is the signal that the whale is present. | |
Paragraph 6. | 5. 1Follow the 3Conservation Guidelines set up by the Whale Protection Act,1980, which prohibit killing, capturing, harassing, injuring, chasing and herding whales. | |
Note: 'Look for' in paragraph 5 is a phrasal verb meaning search for |