- •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.
4. Fill in the gap with a suitable word. The first letter of the word is given.
The world is addicted to cheap, always available oil. It's a polluting s______ of e________, which is f_____ as its r_______ are running out.
S_____ power is a viable alternative to f____ f____, as it gives off no carbon dioxide w______ and uses the natural energy from our sun to g________ electricity. After the lifetime of the panel, the materials that were used to make it could be r___________.
Biomass is a clean r_________ energy s_________ derived from the w_____ of various human and natural activities. Biomass is r__________ as the sources contributing to biomass are always available. The use of biomass can be e__________ fr_______ because the biological mass is reduced, r_________ and then re-used.
Wind power produces no pollution that can c__________ the environment, Since no chemical processes take place, like in the b______ of fossil fuels, in wind power generation, there are no harmful b_-p_________ left over.
5. Fill in the gaps with a suitable word or word combination.
The 1. ________ of Lake Chad's shrinking, say scientists and researchers, include its increased use for irrigation and drinking. But more important, they say, are changes in the region's 2.________, which have reduced the rainfall that once kept the lake and its rivers full. These changes, which are occurring in every part of the world, are now widely understood to be caused by 3. ________ activities, particularly those that use pollution-producing oil and other 4. ________ ________. Gases created by such activities are building up in the atmosphere, 5. ________ too much of the sun's heat and raising the earth's temperature — a process known as 6. ________ ________. As the earth 7. ________ up, it alters rainfall and other weather and climate patterns, threatening human, animal and plant life with potentially dangerous climate change.
/Adapted from Africa Renewal. UN Department of Public Information. Vol.21 №2. July 2007/
6. Fill in the gaps with a suitable word or word combination.
After a decades-long debate over the 1. ________ and potential impact of global warming, a series of studies by 2,500 scientists from 130 countries, part of the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has finally laid the issue to rest. In February 2007 the IPCC provided overwhelming scientific evidence that the use of 2. ________ ________ like coal, oil and natural gas 3. ________billions of tonnes of heat-trapping 4.________ gases into the atmosphere every year, causing air, ground and ocean temperatures around the world to 5. ________ at an alarming rate.
Countries can reduce harmful 6. ________ and halt warming, noted IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri in April, by investing in cleaner "green" 7. ________ and changing consumer habits. But it is too late to 8. ________ climate change from having sometimes severe impacts on the planet, and "it is the poorest of the poor in the world, and this includes poor people even in prosperous societies, who 9. ________ to be the worst hit."
/Adapted from Africa Renewal. UN Department of Public Information. Vol.21 №2. July 2007/