Match problems with their solutions
Key Notes :
Writers sometimes organise their texts to focus on problems and solutions. As you read, pay attention to what the problems and solutions are. This can help you better understand the topic and the writer’s opinion.
Writers often use signal words to introduce problems and solutions. They can be words like question, answer, stop, fix, solve, should, must and make sure.
People should pile sandbags around the pond to make sure it doesn’t overflow
Problem: The pond might overflow.
Solution: People should pile sandbags around the pond.
Learn with an example
🔔 Read the text.
Cheetahs and dogs seem like an unusual pairing. In some zoos, however, cheetahs live with dogs. Cheetahs’ wild energy can leave them stressed in the zoo setting. Dogs help calm the big cats and serve as playmates. In Namibia, dogs are helping cheetahs in another way. Cheetahs were killing cows, so farmers were killing cheetahs to protect their herds. But dogs offer a kinder approach that saves cheetahs and cows. Dogs chase cheetahs away before they hurt the cows, which has resulted in fewer cheetah kills.
Match the problems with their solutions.
| Dogs can provide companionship. | Dogs can chase cheetahs |
| Problem | Solution |
| Cheetahs can be nervous in ZOOS. | |
| Cheetahs can kill livestock. |
Look at the signal words in bold.
Cheetahs and dogs seem like an unusual pairing. In some zoos, however, cheetahs live with dogs. Cheetahs’ wild energy can leave them stressed in the zoo setting. Dogs help calm the big cats and serve as playmates. In Namibia, dogs are helping cheetahs in another way. Cheetahs were killing cows, so farmers were killing cheetahs to protect their herds. But dogs offer a kinder approach that saves cheetahs and cows. Dogs chase cheetahs away before they hurt the cows, which has resulted in fewer cheetah kills.
These signal words help you find the problems and solutions.
| Problem | Solution |
| Cheetahs can be nervous in ZOOS. | Dogs can provide companionship. |
| Cheetahs can kill livestock. | Dogs can chase cheetahs. |
🔔 Read the text.
One mining company is facing an unusual nuisance. When mining for gold, one of the biggest challenges can be surveying the land and locating the precious metal. One company makes this job easier by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones. The drones fly overhead, taking detailed photographs of the land below. But wedge-tailed eagles have been ‘hunting’ the drones as prey. Nine out of ten drones have been destroyed by the eagles. To try to prevent this, the company disguises the drones as other eagles.
Match the problems with their solutions.
| It’s difficult to find gold in large areas of land. | Eagles attack drones. |
| Problem | Solution |
| Drones take detailed photographs. | |
| Drones are disguised. |
Look at the signal words in bold.
One mining company is facing an unusual nuisance. When mining for gold, one of the biggest challenges can be surveying the land and locating the precious metal. One company makes this job easier by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones. The drones fly overhead, taking detailed photographs of the land below. But wedge-tailed eagles have been ‘hunting’ the drones as prey. Nine out of ten drones have been destroyed by the eagles. To try to prevent this, the company disguises the drones as other eagles.
These signal words help you find the problems and solutions.
| Problem | Solution |
| It’s difficult to find gold in large areas of land. | Drones take detailed photographs. |
| Eagles attack drones. | Drones are disguised. |
🔔 Read the text.
Asian wild horses are the only truly wild horses in the world. In the 1960s, however, they became extinct in the wild. To save them, zoos had to raise the horses. After many years, some were let back into the wild in Mongolia. Scientists then faced a new challenge. They wanted to study the horses. But the horses were hard to track because they roamed so widely. The answer was to put GPS collars on the horses. The collars provided information about where the horses travelled and their habitat.
Match the problems with their solutions.
| Asian wild horses were raised in ZOOS. | Special collars were put on the Asian wild horses. |
| Problem | Solution |
| Asian wild horses disappeared from the wild. | |
| Asian wild horses moved too much to study. |
Look at the signal words in bold.
Asian wild horses are the only truly wild horses in the world. In the 1960s, however, they became extinct in the wild. To save them, zoos had to raise the horses. After many years, some were let back into the wild in Mongolia. Scientists then faced a new challenge. They wanted to study the horses. But the horses were hard to track because they roamed so widely. The answer was to put GPS collars on the horses. The collars provided information about where the horses travelled and their habitat.
These signal words help you find the problems and solutions.
| Problem | Solution |
| Asian wild horses disappeared from the wild. | Asian wild horses were raised in Zoos. |
| Asian wild horses moved too much to study. | Special collars were put on the Asian wild horses. |
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