- •Unit 1 ‘The Environment’
- •Vocabulary 1 The Environment
- •1. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box below.
- •2. Complete the sentences with the words from Vocabulary 1.
- •3. Paraphrase the underlined words or word combinations using Vocabulary 1.
- •Vocabulary 2 Word building: Suffixes
- •Noun suffixes
- •1. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the word given at the end of the lines. The first is given as an example. Globalisation
- •2. All the words missing are nouns. Write suitable nouns in the gaps formed from the words in bold. Going green
- •Adjective suffixes
- •Verb suffixes
- •3. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.
- •4. Write an appropriate suffix to complete each adjective in the following sentences.
- •5. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the word given at the end of the lines. The car
- •1. Write an appropriate negative prefix to complete each word in the following sentences.
- •2. Write an appropriate prefix to complete each word in the following sentences.
- •3. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the word given at the end of the lines. Climate changes
- •Vocabulary 4 Threats and potential threats to the environment
- •1. Paraphrase the following sentences using words and phrases from the vocabulary above instead of the underlined words. Make any other necessary changes to produce a correct sentence.
- •2. Complete the following table, using a dictionary if necessary. Do not fill the shaded boxes.
- •3. Fill in the blanks using a word from the list.
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- •4. Complete these sentences with the correct form of the words at the end of the sentence.
- •5. Answer the following questions using the vocabulary of the unit.
- •1. Choose the correct form(s).
- •2. Will or going to
- •3. Will or going to
- •4. Correcting mistakes of future forms
- •In the following dialogues, approximately half of the future forms are wrong. Find the mistakes and correct them. Sometimes more than one form is possible.
- •Unit 2 ‘Ecological Problems’
- •1. Study the table below.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the articles or some where necessary.
- •3. Fill in the gaps with the articles where necessary.
- •4. Fill in the gaps with the articles or some where necessary.
- •5. Study the table below.
- •6. Study the table below.
- •7. Study the table below.
- •8. Study the table below.
- •9. Fill in the gaps with the articles where necessary.
- •Vocabulary 1 Green issues
- •1. Complete the table with words from a and b above and related forms. Put a stress mark in front of the stressed syllable in each word. (The first one has been done for you.)
- •2. Match the two parts of these sentences containing expressions from c above.
- •3. Complete the sentences with expressions from d above.
- •4. Complete the sentences using one of the words from the box.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with the word from the list below.
- •6. Paraphrase the underlined phrases using the vocabulary of the unit. Poisoned Environment in Nigeria
- •Vocabulary 2 Expressing cause and result
- •1. Cause, result in, lead to; result from, as a result of
- •2. Make three sentences about the other results of the tornado, using result in, result from and as a result of.
- •3. Rewrite the following sentences using the expressions in brackets.
- •4. Linking words and phrases
- •5. Underline the correct link word or phrase.
- •6. Fill in each space in these sentences with a suitable link word or phrase. More than one answer may be possible.
- •7. Answer the questions using different ways of expressing cause and result.
- •Vocabulary 3 Sustainable development
- •1. Complete the article with Sentences a - e below.
- •2. Look at the following key words from the article and find words which can go before or after them to form 'word combinations'. Two of them have been done for you as examples.
- •3. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place below
- •Waste Disposal
- •4. Multiple-choice cloze
- •Sustainability
- •5. Open cloze
- •Climate Change
- •6. Answer the questions using the vocabulary of the unit.
- •1. Future continuous and Future Perfect
- •2. Complete the sentences with the future perfect or future continuous form of the verb in brackets.
- •3. Recognizing correct future forms
- •4. What does John say?
- •5. Future continuous, Future Simple, Present Simple and Present Perfect
- •6. Correcting mistakes
- •In the following dialogues some of the future forms are wrong. Find the mistakes
- •7. Thinking about your future
- •Rain Forest Destruction
- •Vocabulary revision
- •1. Word formation
- •2. Multiple-choice cloze
- •Soil Pollution
- •3. Proof-reading
- •Polluting water is easy!
- •4. Fill in the gap with a suitable word. The first letter of the word is given.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with a suitable word or word combination.
- •6. Fill in the gaps with a suitable word or word combination.
- •7. Find 13 different types of fuel in this word search.
- •8. Substitute the highlighted parts with the appropriate terms.
1. Complete the table with words from a and b above and related forms. Put a stress mark in front of the stressed syllable in each word. (The first one has been done for you.)
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car`cinogen |
carcino`genic |
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discharge |
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dispose (of) |
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environment |
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incinerator |
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pollute |
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recycling |
recyclable |
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toxicity |
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2. Match the two parts of these sentences containing expressions from c above.
1. He led a political campaign against a. lobby, this type of plastic is such a dangerous the company, saying its oil substance to manufacture and dispose of that production caused environmental it should be banned.
2. According to the environmental b. devastation in the area.
3. The project will boost Brazilian c. standards, the amount of household waste is efforts to fight environmental growing more slowly than the economy as a
4.In the richest countries with the whole.
toughest environmental d. degradation in the Amazon basin.
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3. Complete the sentences with expressions from d above.
1 Illegal _________________ could accelerate degradation or even cause _____________, which has affected more than 9.8 million acres of forest in the past 30 years.
2 Fishermen are being encouraged to catch alternative fish species because _____________ has _________________ the stocks to near-collapse.
3 The country's society is maturing and adopting a model of economic development that balances economic growth, social justice and the _________________ use of _______________ _________________.
4 Many congressmen are keen to revive research into renewable _________________ _________________ like solar and wave power.
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4. Complete the sentences using one of the words from the box.
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ecology (x2) pollution depletion waste (x2) acid rain extinct environment contaminate dumped threatened emissions
The _________ of the planet is further ________ by global warming.
________ from cars and oil refineries and other industrial activities cause air pollution.
50% of the world’s species are predicted to go _________ within the next 50 years.
In Germany, the forests are believed to be dying because _________ is harming them.
_________ is the scientific study of the interactions between organisms and their _________.
Air _________ causes the _________ of ozone in the ozone layer.
In our world every day people throw away lots of valuable technology _________.
Ordinary landfills are the source of many chemical substances that _________ the soil and consequently leak into the groundwater.
Liquid radioactive _________ has been _________ in the Barents and Kara Sea.