- •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.
- •Save it!
- •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.
7. Thinking about your future
For each of the following times, write what you think you will (or won’t) be doing at that time or something that you will (or won’t) have done by then.
Example: the end of this month I will have sent more than 150 e-mails to friends by the end of this month.
midnight tonight ________________________________________________
this time next week ________________________________________________
the end of this year ________________________________________________
the middle of next summer ________________________________________________
ten years from now ________________________________________________
/From Developing Grammar in Context, Mark Nettle and Diana Hopkins/
Unit 3
Grammar revision
Fill in the gaps with the correct preposition and open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct form.
Rain Forest Destruction
The atmosphere and oceans are not the only parts (1) ___________ the environment that (2) ___________ (damage). Rain forests (3) ___________ (destroy) quickly as well, and their survival is questionable.
E.O. Wilson, a biologist at Harvard, (4) ___________ (call) the depletion of rain forest areas "the greatest extinction (5) ___________ the end of the age of dinosaurs."
(6) ___________ some local environmental issues, rain forest depletion (7) ___________ (fortunately / receive) significant public and media attention.
(8) ___________ strong public opposition to the cutting down (9) ___________ rain forests, the problem (10) ___________ (continue). Every year, Brazil (11) ___________ (chop down) an area of forest the size of the state of Nebraska.
In addition (12) ___________ the Amazon's rain forests, many other forests (13) ___________ (cut down) as well. In Indonesia, Zaire, Papua-New Guinea, Malaysia, Burma, the Philippines, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, and Venezuela, rain forests that (14) ___________ (be) once great (15)___________ (lose).
According (16) ___________ some estimates, 50 million acres of rain forest (17) ___________ (cut down) every year. The United Nations says the figure is closer (18) ___________ 17 million acres. The World Wildlife Fund says that every minute, 25 to 50 acres (19)___________ (cut) or ___________ (burn) to the ground.
The world's growing population (20) ___________ (be) a primary cause (21) ___________ rain forest destruction. More people need land to live (22) ___________ and wood products to consume. Limiting population growth may be the first (23) ___________ a series of steps that (24) ___________ (limit) the destruction of the rain forests.
/Adapted from http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Environmental_Problems/rain_forest_destruction.html/
Vocabulary revision
1. Word formation
Read the following text and fill in the correct word derived from the words in brackets.
Transportation is a huge problem in most communities. Most families spend more than $5,000 dollars each year to own and maintain a motor vehicle. Transportation accounts for as much as one third of greenhouse (1) ___________ (emit) in the United States. Congestion costs are over 6 million dollars in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York City, and Mexico City. Transportation is vital for economic (2) ___________ (develop), moving goods and services and allowing access to jobs. (3) ___________ (sustain) communities must find (4) ___________ (create) solutions that balance the need for (5) ___________ (economy) growth with the need for less expensive (6) ___________ (mobile) that is (7) ___________ (access) and (8) ___________ (environment) friendly. Communities need to offer alternative choices that focus on people instead of motor vehicles. Raising (9) ___________ (aware) of the problem is one way to help the situation. Also, cities can encourage people to stop using their cars by making public transportation (10) ___________ (ease) to use and to access.
/Adapted from http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01346/improving.html/