Using Adverbial Clauses of Time to Paraphrase

This exercise will help you prepare for reading on the computer screen.

1. Print out this worksheet.

2. Go to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/grizzlies/river.html on the Internet.

3. Read the article, "A River of Bears," on the computer screen. Do not print it out.

4. Refer to the story on the screen as you complete the following paraphrased sentences about "A River of Bears" with appropriate time expressions and the correct verb tense forms of the verbs in parentheses. Use each time expression at least once.

Time expressions:

Since / until / while / as soon as / once / whenever / as / as long as

by / before / when / every time / after

Sentences:

1. _____________________the salmon ________________ (begin) to migrate, the grizzly bears _________________(gather) at McNeil Falls in the Alaskan wilderness.

2. Mother bears ________________(come) to the falls to teach their cubs the survival skills they will use all their lives _________________ they ______________(die).

3. "A River of Bears" __________________(tell about) Toughie, the cub, _____________ she _______________(learn) how to fish for salmon and to eat marsh grass.

4. _______________ she _______________(learn) to fish, she _______________(learn also) how to behave around other bears, both her own size and the huge, dangerous, adult males.

5. Several other bears are also included in the story. One of the bears, Teddy, ________________(try) to provide food for her cub _______________ she ___________________(teach) her survival skills.

6. __________________the river was called McNeil Falls, some people _______________(call) it "the river of bears" because __________________the visted, there ________________(be) as many as 40 bears fishing at one time.

7. ___________________ Charles McNeil _____________(live) near the river in the early 1900s, bear hunters __________________(come) to hunt, but ________________ 1955, the area has been a special wildlife reserve to protect the grizzlies.

8. ______________ the time the 1970s ___________________(arrive), photographers and other tourists _____________________(begin) to come to see the bears.

9. ________________ the tourists got overzealous with their photography, they ___________ (run) into trouble with mother bears, or territorial males. The tourists _______________(disturb) the bears ________________ the bears _______________(leave) the area.

10. _______________ Alaskan officials ______________ (limit) visitation in 1973, the situation _______________(improve).

11. Nowadays, ____________ visitors are allowed to visit the reserve, they must win a lottery to get a permit.

12. ______________ they get the permit, they ______________(put on) rubber boots and ______________(walk) across the marshes to special viewing areas where they can watch the bears for ________________ they want.

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