1.Read the text and answer the following questions.

1.1.Is environmental pollution a serious problem facing humanity today?

1.2. What does it cause?

2.1 What is the pollution of the environment?

2.2 .What does the environment consist of?

3.1.What does the pollution of atmosphere come from?

3.2.Name the main sources of air pollution.

3.3.Does air pollution destroy the ozone layer?

4.1.Name the sources of contamination of water –ways.

4.2.How does water pollution influence aquatic life?

5.1.What does land pollution result from?

5.2.Is environment able of absorbing the rubbish the economy throws into it?

5.3.What happens as a result of nature imbalance?

6.1.What harm did the Chernobyl tragedy cause to Republic of Belarus?

7.1.Is protection of the environment our common duty?

7.2.What is the role of the environmental agencies?

7.3.What can we do to keep our environment safe and clean?

2.Put all kinds of questions to the sentences given below.

1.The environment consists of the air, water and the land around us.

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2. Industrial enterprises pollute the air, the water and the land.

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3. Exhaust gases contain poisonous substances.

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4. Water pollution reduces aquatic life.

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5. Forests are dying from acid rains.

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6.Rare species of animals, birds, fish and plant disappear for ever.

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7. Land pollution results from the dumping of wastes on the terrain.

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8. Environmental protection agencies have been set up in many countries.

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9. Many people all over the world join different ecological parties.

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10.We must preserve nature for the future generations.

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3. Give answers to these questions.

1. Why are many people concerned about ecology today?

2. Can people live without nature?

3. Why is there air pollution in large cities?

4. What is the ecological situation in your city?

5. Can air pollutants affect the climate?

6. What do you know about the Chernobyl ecological disaster?

7. What are the consequences of this tragedy?

8. What measures should be taken to protect environment?

9. Why did some species of animals, birds, plants disappear from the Earth?

10. Is international cooperation necessary to create a system of ecological security?

11. Would you like to take part in the activities of the international organization “Greenpeace”?

4. Look through the text and discuss the problem of:

1. Environmental pollution.

2. Air pollution.

3. Water pollution.

4. Land pollution.

5. Protection of the environment.

DISCUSSION.

1. Read the text “Greenpeace”, answer the questions and retell it. Greenpeace.

Greenpeace is an international environmental organization. It works to change government and industrial policies that threaten the natural world. Greenpeace calls attention to the dangers to the environment of such actions as offshore oil drilling, nuclear bomb testing, and the dumping of radioactive wastes into oceans. It also opposes whaling, the spread of nuclear weapons, and the threat to wild life from hunting, pollution, and habitat loss.

Members of Greenpeace use direct and nonviolent methods of protest. They go to the place where an activity is occurring that the group considers harmful. Without using force, they try to stop the activity. For example to protest against whaling, Greenpeace members in boats position themselves between whales and whaling ships.

Greenpeace was founded in Canada in 1971. It gained international attention for its efforts to save whales and for its opposition to the killing baby seals off the coast of Newfoundland. In 1985, Greenpeace members planned to use their ship Rainbow Warrior to protest against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. But an explosion sank the ship in the harbour of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Greenpeace photographer was killed. French government officials admitted responsibility for the sinking, and the defence minister resigned.

Notes:

1. threaten v – угрожать

2. call attention to – привлекать внимание, обращать внимание

3. whale n – кит

4. nonviolent a – ненасильственный

5. gain v – получать, приобретать

6. seal n – тюлень

1. What kind of organization is Greenpeace?

2. What does it call attention to?

3. What methods of protest do members of Greenpeace use?

4. Give examples of such a protest.

5. When and where was Greenpeace founded?

6. In 1985 the ship Rainbow Warrior protested against French nuclear tests; didn’t it?

7. What happened as a result of this protest?

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