2 Match the captions with the pictures.

drop litter

* pollute the air with waste gases

pour poisonous chemicals

release car fumes

Lesson 3 Teens and bins

3. Underline the correct form of the verb, active or passive.

G OING CRAZY WITH NOISE

One of the more serious environmental problems in our city is one that people often miss: noise pollution. Studies have shown that too much noise (1) is caused/ causes increased stress. However, noise (2) does not think/is not thought to be a serious form of pollution. This summer, two houses (3) have built/have been built on my street, and my next door neighbour (4) has renovated/ has been renovated his kitchen as well.

One day, across the street from my house, a man cut stones with a saw (пила), making a terrible noise that

5. sounded/ was sounded like fingernails scratching a blackboard. As a result, I nearly (6) was gone/went crazy. I couldn’t escape the noise. I (7) find/am found noise pollution to be one of the most serious kinds of pollution. Unfortunately, a third house (8) will start/ will be started next week. I hope for lots of rainy days when my windows (9) usually close / are usually closed.

4. Answer the questions using words from the box.

• The order of the words is not important.

• destroy	chemicals	pour	damage waste "
; poison (2)	affect	release	car fumes pollute ;

1. W hat do we call things that pollute the environment?

W hat verbs mean ways in which people pollute the environment with chemicals?

3. What are the verbs meaning doing harm to the environment?

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Wessons 4-5 We care

5A Complete the table.

• Check yourself with the help of the text in SB Ex. 2a.

Noun	Verb
damage
	waste
poison
threat
	pollute
release
cause

5B In each line find the noun which Caps go with a verb in the left column.

1. damage

2. cause

3. threaten / put at risk

4. affect environment, nature, disease, health disease, damage, pollution, nature health, life, harm, environment pollution, health, nature, wildlife

(T) garbage can

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|,esson 6 Space garbage

5. Fill in the gaps with the article the if necessary.

1. World is facing a lot of environmental problems today.

These problems are caused by (2) humans. While developing

technology humans have begun to improve their lives without

paying (3) attention to the harm this development has done

to other types of (4) life. (5) sea and river pollution is

one of (6) problems that has resulted from new technology,

and humans need to solve this very quickly to save our planet.