- •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.
2. Multiple-choice cloze
For questions 1-12 read the text and decide which answer (A/B/C) best fits each space.
Soil Pollution
It is very common for farmers and gardeners to spread fertilizer on their soil 1.___________ the plants will grow to be healthier. Nitrates and phosphates are typically found in these fertilizers. The use of too much fertilizer is very bad for the plants because it can increase their growth beyond reasonable limits, and drain nutrients from the 2. ___________. Communities should be careful when they are doing agricultural work because the materials that they put on the soil can 3. ___________ many problems. Fertilizer that is spread 4. ___________ fields can 5.___________ into streams and lakes, which then become contaminated.
Ordinary landfills are the source of many chemical substances that are contaminating the soil and 6. ___________ leaking 7. ___________ the groundwater. They come from the wide variety of refuse in our landfills, especially materials illegally 8. ___________ there. Some of the more common soil 9. ___________ in landfills are chlorinated hydrocarbons (CFH), found in propellants, and MTBE, found in gasoline. Heavy metals are 10. ___________ a problem.
Pollution can also be the 11. ___________ of a natural disaster. For example, hurricanes often result in water contamination from sewage. Oil spills are caused by oil tankers that become damaged and leak oil and by car accidents which cause gasoline to be 12. ___________ into wet lands.
/Adapted from http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01346/environment.html/
1 A so that B in order C so as
2 A soil B grounds C earth
3 A lead B result C cause
4 A at B on C above
5 A run out B run off C run down
6 A as result B consequently C so
7 A onto B --- C into
8 A discarded B disposed C dump
9 A contaminants B polluters C contaminations
10 A moreover B too C also
11 A influence B effect C consequence
12 A spilled B spill C spillt
3. Proof-reading
Look at the text below. Some of its lines are correct, so put a tick (V) next to them. Some others include an extra word which you must cross out.
Polluting water is easy!
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Polluting the water is unfortunately a very simple process. |
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As the item goes down the drain it gets dumped into waterways. |
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That's how easy it is to pollute the earth's water. |
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Certain human-made items result in to water pollution. These items |
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include soaps, detergents, cleaning sprays, some mouthwashes, and many |
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other things. Water pollution is also caused when people throw some trash |
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into water too. Animals can get trapped in the trash and |
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suffocate to the death. The trash can cut or disable the animals. |
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In a way, throwing trash into water is such like committing animal |
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murder. Oil spills also create massive water pollution. |
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Big ocean liners ship oil along with coastlines and risk |
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of crashing into rocks, spreading oil into water. |
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Oil spills are a lot more worse than we think. They cause animals |
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to die and require a lot of time and work to clean up. |
/Adapted from http://library.thinkquest.org/6076/New%20Pages/EWatpoll.html/