- •Оглавление
- •Введение
- •Unit 1. The Concept of Biosphere
- •1. Discuss these questions with your partner.
- •3. Skim the text. The biosphere
- •4. Decide if the following statements are true or false.
- •5. Read the text again and answer the following questions.
- •Read the text about the great Russian scientist and comment on his contribution to the development of science.
- •Vladimir Vernadsky
- •8. Choose the correct answer.
- •9. Listen to the class discussion about uranium. Then decide if the following statements are true or false.
- •10. Say it in English:
- •Unit 2. Ecology
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Read the text about the science of ecology and give the definitions to the following: ecology, environment, animal behavior, environmental biology, natural selection, ecosystem,
- •4. Read the information about earth sciences paying attention on the disciplines mentioned bellow.
- •6. Read the text bellow and say why there is a great demand in experts in the field of ecology in our region.
- •7. Read a magazine article about ecologists who have written books. For questions 1-15, choose from the people ( a-d)
- •8. How has each person in the text helped to protect the environment? Unit 3 Ecological problems
- •1. Read the following explanations and translate the underlined words into Russian.
- •3. Read and translate the text using a dictionary. Environmental problems
- •4. Find English equivalents for the following words and phrases in text.
- •5. Match the following words with their synonyms from the opposite column.
- •6. Correct the following statements using the information from the text.
- •7. Answer the following questions using the information from the text. Work in pairs. Use such expressions as:
- •9. Read the information about the influence of human activities on the environment. Here are some examples of environmental problems and solutions to talk about them.
- •14. Choose the best suitable subject for the articles.
- •15. Open the brackets using the proper tense forms.
- •Unit 4 Applying for a job.
- •4. Make combinations using the words from the three columns (consult dictionary if needed) and the questions given below.
- •5. Find out and explain the difference among the phrases.
- •7. Choose a statement or a question from the listed above as a theme for your essay.
- •8. Read the title and opening quotation from an article giving careers advice on finding your ideal job. What advice and information do you think the article will give on the following questions?
- •9. Read the article and check your answers in exercise8. Finding your ideal job - its all about… you
- •Firstly, what do you want work to do for you?
- •10. Explain the meaning of these expressions from the article.
- •11. Decide which answer (а, в, с or d) best fits each space. Choosing a job
- •Unit 1. Covering letter and cv
- •Studying the sample
- •2. Read his covering letter and his cv (Curriculum Vitae), and put the missing words in gaps 1-12.
- •Curriculum Vitae
- •Steps to better writing
- •6. Read Susanna's covering letter, find 12 mistakes in what she has written, and rewrite the letter.
- •Writing your application
- •7.Write a letter to a science museum applying for a part-time job (100-140 words). Using Adrian's cv as a model, write your own cv.
- •Use these notes to help you.
- •Характерные черты официального письма
- •Unit 2.
- •Interview
- •1. Discuss the questions with your partner.
- •2. Read the text and questions below. Job interviews
- •3. Scan the text and mark the correct letter а, в, с or d for each question.
- •4. Listen to the first part of an interview with Rob Yeung, a business psychologist, talking about how to succeed at job interviews. Answer the questions.
- •5. Listen to the second part of the interview. Answer the questions.
- •6. Work in pairs. If you were recruiting someone for your own job (or a job that you know well) what interview questions and tests or tasks would you set? What would be the ideal answers?
- •Scoring
- •15 Or more
- •7 Or fewer
8. How has each person in the text helped to protect the environment? Unit 3 Ecological problems
1. Read the following explanations and translate the underlined words into Russian.
To deteriorate means to develop into a bad or unpleasant situation, to become worse. Relations between the two countries have since deteriorated.
A resource is something such as land, minerals, or natural energy that exists in a country and can be used to increase its wealth. Russia is reach in natural resources.
To contaminate means to make a place or a substance dirty or dangerous by adding something to it, for example, chemicals or poison: fears that dumped waste might contaminate water supplies.
To disperse means to spread over a wide area: The clouds dispersed quickly.
Extinct – an extinct animal, plant, language etc no longer exists: Dinosaurs have been extinct for many years.
Emission means 1) an amount of gas or other substance that a machine or factory produces and sends into the air: Britain has agreed to cut emissions of nitrogen oxide from power stations. / emissions of CFCs 2) the sending out of gas, heat, light etc.
To exhaust means 1) to make someone extremely tired so that they have no energy left: Their long conversation exhausted him. 2) to use all of something: We’ve nearly exhausted our coal reserves.
To threaten means 1) to say that you will cause someone pain, unhappiness, or trouble if they do not do what you want: Every time they quarrel, Jan threatens to leave. 2) to be likely to harm or destroy something: Poaching threatens the survival of the rhino.
Inhabitant means one of the people who live in a particular place: a city of six millions inhabitants.
Litter means bits of waste paper, containers etc that people have thrown away and left on the ground in a public place: Please, take your litter away with you. Syn. Garbage, rubbish, trash.
To affect means to do something that produces an affect or change in someone or something: a disease that affects the central nervous system.
To derive means 1) to get something, usually a pleasant feeling, from something or someone: He derived some comfort from the fact that he wasn’t the only one to fail the exam. 2) to develop or come from something else: This word is derived from Latin. 3) technical to get a chemical substance from another substance.
Pollution means 1) the process of making air, water, soil etc dangerously dirty and not suitable for people to use: California’s tough anti-pollution laws/ chronic pollution of the atmosphere 2) substances that make air, water, soil etc dangerously dirty: industries and other sources of pollution / a national programme to cut sulphur dioxide pollution.
2. Learn new words and phrases.
at the expense of |
ценою чего-л. |
consumer goods |
товары широкого потребления |
contamination |
загрязнение, заражение |
destruction |
разрушение, разорение |
environment |
окружающая обстановка, среда |
favourable |
благоприятный, подходящий |
fossil fuels |
ископаемое топливо |
garbage dump |
мусорная свалка |
human activities |
человеческая деятельность |
natural resources |
природные ресурсы |
negative influence |
отрицательное воздействие |
poisoning |
отравление, заражение |
pollution |
загрязнение |
production process |
процесс производства |
raw materials |
сырьё |
species |
класс, род, вод, разновидность |
to be caused by |
быть вызванным чем-л. |
to cope with |
справляться с чем-л. |