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5.2. A message board on a weather website asked its readers to say their views on global warming and climate change. Here is selection of their messages. Read and dramatize them.

Gonzalo: I’m in favour of global warming. I grow tropical plants so for me the warmer weather is better!

Tanya: In 20 years time the traditional British weather will be a thing of the past. We’ll have a climate like the south of France. People

will be healthier as they’ll spend more time outdoors. It’ll be great.

Luis: No one can tell me that global warming isn’t happening. We’ve just had the hottest year on record! My sister lives in the north of Spain and she said that it is beach weather there and it’s November. I mean it’s not normal is it?

Kevin: When I was a boy we used to have heavy snow most years. Since the early 90s all we’ve had is a light dusting of snow. It must be due to global warming.

Ruth: You only have to switch on the news to see the crazy things the weather is doing. There are so many floods, hurricanes and droughts. It’s the extreme weather conditions caused by global warming.

Oliver: There is no such thing as global warming. It’s all media hype to brainwash people. If they told us the moon was made of cheese often enough people would believe it!

Mark: The world will never be the same again, but that’s how it has always been. It changes constantly and nature and man can adapt to these changes. If we couldn’t, human life on the planet would have finished years ago.

Who do you agree with most? Who do you disagree with? What would you write to the message board? Put your message here.

5.3. Read the following quotes of different people about the environmental problems. What is their position towards this problem? What opinion do you agree with?

1. We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment (Margaret Mead).

2. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours (Kurt Vonnegut).

3. I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? (Robert Redford).

4. The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives (Unknown Author).

5. The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river (Ross Perot).

6. It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment (Ansel Adams).

7. There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew (Marshall McLuhan).

8. They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers (James G. Watt).

9. The wood is burnt, but the ashes are a nuisance (Unknown Author).

10. Nature is not a temple, but a workshop and man is a workman in it (Ivan Turgenev).

5.4.* Conduct research on how paper and glass are recycled and then report on the types of products that are produced from these recycled materials. Review how paper and other products are being overused at your home, school, or business, and propose ideas on how to reduce excess waste and promote recycling.

5.5.* Make projects. Use tips given in the appendix 1:

1. The most dangerous ecological tragedies of the world, its effects and measures of neutralization (Chernobyl 1986, Japan 2011 etc.).

2. Global warming and measures of its neutralization.

3. Ecological problems in our region.

4. Environmental protection organizations (Greenpeace, WWF etc).

5. Earth is in danger.

VI. LISTENING

6.1. Listen to the text Saving the Earth on http://www.esl-lab.com

6.2. Do the tasks given to this text.

SUPPLEMENTARY TASKS

1. Read the text and translate it into Russian.