7. Answer the following questions on Text a.

1) What is the pollution?

2) What gave birth to environmental pollution?

3) What are the sources of air pollution?

4) Why is natural disaster hazardous for the environment?

Make 5 more questions to Text A and ask them to your partner.

8. Match the highlighted words in the text with the definitions and synonyms below.

a) Environmental contamination; b) the components of pollution; c) to bring about; d) harm; e) influence; f) dangerous; g) to produce; h) effect; i) an amount of gas, heat, light, etc. that is sent out; j) to influence; k) refuse.

9. Make 5 sentences using the vocabulary in Activity 8. Ask your partner to translate them into Russian.

10. Work in small groups. Discuss the statement: «The solution to pollution is dilution». What do you think it means? Do you agree?

11. Read Text B. Is the information in the text close to your opinion?

Text b. Regulation and monitoring

«The solution to pollution is dilution», is a dictum which summarizes a traditional approach to pollution management whereby sufficiently diluted pollution is not harmful. It is well-suited to some other modern, locally scoped applications such as laboratory safety procedure and hazardous material release emergency management. But it assumes that the dilutant is in virtually unlimited supply for the application or that resulting dilutions are acceptable in all cases.

To protect the environment from the adverse effects of pollution, many nations worldwide have enacted legislation to regulate various types of pollution as well as to mitigate the adverse effects of pollution.

Pollution control is a term used in environmental management. It means the control of emissions and effluents into air, water or soil. Without pollution control, the waste products from consumption, heating, agriculture, mining, manufacturing, transportation and other human activities, whether they accumulate or disperse, will degrade the environment. In the hierarchy of controls, pollution prevention and waste minimization are more desirable than pollution control. In the field of land development, low impact development is a similar technique for the prevention of urban runoff.

12. Choose the best answers.

1. «The solution to pollution is dilution», is a dictum which

a) is considered in some industrial enterprises.

b) is usually thought about the environmental problem.

c) is barely to fulfill.

2. To protect the environment from the adverse effects of pollution,

a) many countries made laws to regulate various types of pollution.

b) the government forbade industrial emissions.

c) most countries did nothing.

3. Pollution control means

a) the monitoring the industrial enterprises.

b) the total prohibition for harmful emissions into the environment.

c) the control of emissions and effluents into air, water or soil.

13. Project. Work in pairs. Do you know any more efficient ways to solve the problem of environmental pollution? Work out a list of the ways. Be ready to present the list and explain your ideas.