- •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.
3. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place below
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garbage landfills sustainable |
harmful pollutants dispose |
released harm incinerators |
generate toxic
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Waste Disposal
The ways that communities (1)___________ of their waste products can cause problems for their communities or the environment. (2)____________ by-products pollute the environment and eventually (3) ___________ the people who live there. However, there exists (4) ___________ disposal which does not put these toxins into the air, water or soil of communities.
Some people live in remote places or where (5) ___________ collection doesn’t happen. They burn their garbage in an open fire in their back yard. However, this can be a problem because one of the main chemicals (6) ___________ when garbage is burned is carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is very (7) ___________ to animal life. There are large (8) ___________ that burn waste, reducing its amount up to 90%. They use special equipment to remove the (9) ___________. Some plants even use the energy produced to (10)___________ electricity.
(11) ___________ were used for a long time when there was less population. However, many of them are now full and other means need to be found to manage the garbage that is produced.
/Adapted from http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01346/environment.html/
4. Multiple-choice cloze
For questions 1-15, read the text below and decide which word A, B, C or D best fits the space.
Sustainability
As an environmental concept, sustainability has been around since the 1700s, when European forestry began to face a crisis 1. ___________ logging. Foresters 2. ___________ that timber needed to be managed with more care, and that trees would need to be replanted after significant “harvests”. Cooperative effort was undertaken to 3. ___________ the forests of Europe, in Germany especially, and the concept of sustainability, was born. Timber harvesters understood that if they 4. ___________ their current practices, the forest would disappear, so they changed them to make them sustainable.
Sustainability 5. ___________ biodiversity, the preservation of 6. ___________ ecosystems, the health of the environment, and a high quality of life.
In the twentieth century, many scientists began to realize that in order to survive as a species, humans needed to be aware 7. ___________ their environment. 8. ___________, it was understood that the world is a huge closed ecosystem, and that damage 9. ___________ one part of the Earth can have an impact 10. ___________ other parts of the Earth. 11. ___________, the human race needs to work together to encourage sustainability and minimize its influence on the globe if it wants to continue existing. Sustainability is important from the neighborhood to the international level, and every citizen on Earth can 12. ___________ to the global effort to live more sustainable, healthy lives.
/Adapted from http://www.wisegeek.com/in-environmental-terms-what-does-sustainability-mean.htm/
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