- •Unit 1 ‘The Environment’
- •1. Complete the questionnaire below about your everyday activities. Analyze your answers and decide if you can call yourself a friend of planet Earth.
- •2. Share your analysis with the class to find out who is the most planet-friendly student in your group. Explain your choice.
- •The environment
- •It is not uncommon today to see people picking up and recycling trash left in public recreation areas.
- •Unit 2 ‘Ecological Problems’
- •1. Student a and Student в: your texts deal with air pollution.
- •Air Pollution
- •Water Pollution
- •1. Complete the table with the derivatives of the following words:
- •2. Match the words in Column a and Column b to form collocations. In several cases more than one variant is possible.
- •3. Now use the expressions from Exercise 2 to complete the following sentences. Pay attention to the form of the verb.
- •4. Use the texts and consult a collocations dictionary to complete the word maps below with collocations for the words ‘pollution’, ‘harm’ and ‘waste’.
- •5. Fill in the gaps in the text with suitable words: Top 5 Environmental Issues in Australia
- •Storm clouds on the horizon
- •1. Match the sentences a-c with pictures 1-3.
- •2. Complete the sentences using the future perfect or future continuous.
- •3. Complete the dialogue with verbs in the future continuous or future perfect.
- •1. Work with a partner and discuss the following question.
- •2. Read What can you do to help? about what you can do to help prevent climate change. Talk to a partner or in small groups.
- •What can you do to help? The top tips
- •Unit 3 ‘Working out solutions’
- •1. Answer the following questions about the article.
- •2. Arguments for and against using nuclear power
- •1. Explain or paraphrase the word(s) in italics in the following sentences.
- •2. Match the collocations from paragraphs 4 and 5.
- •3. Complete the following sentences using one of the collocations from Exercise 2.
- •4. Find words in the text that match the definitions below.
- •1. Discuss the questions in small groups.
- •2. Analyse the following survey report and present the results of your analysis to the group.
- •Recycling - How Important Is It Really?
- •In the comprehension check you were asked how you think people should be encouraged to participate in recycling programmes. Discuss your opinion with the class.
- •1. Work with a partner. What benefits of recycling do you remember?
- •2. Match the underlined words with their definitions. You will hear these words in the listening activity.
- •1. Now listen to a talk on recycling and answer the following question.
- •2. Compare with a partner what you understood.
- •3. Listen again and take notes of myths about recycling that the speaker destroys.
- •1. Listen to a radio interview with an animal protection activist and answer the question.
- •2. Compare with a partner what you understood.
- •3. Listen again and take notes of the solutions mentioned.
- •And the environment”
- •Bibliography
1. Complete the table with the derivatives of the following words:
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Harm |
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Damage |
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Extinction |
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Destruction |
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Corrode |
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Fertile |
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2. Match the words in Column a and Column b to form collocations. In several cases more than one variant is possible.
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to melt to burn to attack to lower to support to treat to discharge to minimize to flood |
coastal cities fish population the ozone layer fossil fuel water quality polar ice caps waste harm pollutants |
3. Now use the expressions from Exercise 2 to complete the following sentences. Pay attention to the form of the verb.
This fishing lake is an auxiliary drinking water supply for the capital city of Augusta. But as a result of runoff from agriculture and residential areas, different pollutants have ________ _____________ __________ below standards.
Glaciers are disappearing into the oceans, the ________-___________ are _____________. That could accelerate global warming as less light is reflected back to space.
By reporting spills and pollution quickly, the appropriate measures can be undertaken quickly and the ____________ from the incident can be ______________ .
Dangerous _________ must be ___________ before it is disposed of in a landfill and must also meet strict criteria. Certain types of waste are banned from landfill including those that are explosive, flammable or infectious.
___________ _____________ ______________ releases CO2 into the atmosphere, hence the anxiety that extensive use of these fuels is causing climate change.
Acid rain has made numerous lakes so acidic that they no longer _________ ____________ ______________.
According to China report, the government has decided to introduce high charges for the right to ____________ dangerous ______________ into Lake Taihu.
High flying aircraft, ranging from commercial craft such as Concorde to military spy planes and the space shuttle, contribute to ________ _______. The engines of these vehicles, particularly those traveling at supersonic speeds, produce oxides of nitrogen which will also ______________ __ ____________ ___________.
It listed likely effects of global warming: rising seas will _________ ___________ _____________, melting glaciers will dry up the source of future water supplies, and up to 30 percent of all plant and animal species may become extinct.