II. Read the following international words and word combinations and try to guess their meaning.

Form (n), vital problem, nature (n), natural gas, interaction (n), human race, protect (v), protection (n), effect (n), ozone, molecule [mlikju:l], energy resources [ris:siz], polar [pəulə] (a), result (n), global (a), catastrophe [kətæstrəfi] (n), ultra-violet (UV) [ltrəvaiəlit] rays, industrial product, industrialisatioin [in¸dstriələizeiən] (n), air conditioner, chemicals [kemikəlz] (n), attack (v), risk (n), eye cataract [kætərækt], immune system, plankton (n), atmosphere [ætməsfiə] (n), metal (n), tropical (a), climatic (a), ecosystem (n), acre [eikə] (n), unique [ju:ni:k] (a), balance (n).

III. Train reading the names of the chemical elements.

Acid [æsid] – 1) (n) кислота; 2) (a) кислотный, кислый; carbon [ka:bən]–(n) углерод; chlorofluorocarbons [kl:rəfluərəka:bənz] – хлорфторуглероды; nitrogen [naitrədʒ(ə)n] (n) – азот; oxide [ksaid] (n) – окись, окисел; oxygen [ksidʒ(ə)n] (n) – кислород; sulphur [slfə] (n) – сера.

IV. Read and translate the following words of the same root. Determine the part of speech they belong to. Memorize them.

• Protect, protector, protection, protective;

• destroy, destroyer, destruction, destructive;

• contribute, contributor, contribution, contributory;

• predict, predictor, prediction, predictive, predicted;

• reduce, reduction, reducible, reduced;

• pollute, pollution, pollutant; environ, environment, environmental, environmentally;

• forest, deforest, deforestation.

V. Read and translate the following word combinations.

Environmental endangered

Air extinct

Water rare species

Land existing

Soil pollution surviving

Noise

Chemical

Radio-active

serious illness

an average rise in temperature

catastrophe for wildlife

to cause skin and eye problems

much damage

¼ of all species on Earth to vanish the destruction of the ozone layer

5. Read the following text and: a) discuss the environmental situation in the world; b) say what the burning problems of nature preservation are and which of them are vital for your region.

Nature protection

Computers project that between now and the year of 2030 we are going to have an increase of the average temperature between 1,5 – 4,5 degrees C. Sea levels would rise by several metres, flooding coastal areas and ruining vast tracts of farmland. Huge areas would be infertile and become uninhabitable. Water contamination could lead to shortages of safe drinking water. It looks like the end of civilization on the Earth.

For hundreds of thousands of years the human race has thriven in Earth's environment. But now, at the beginning of the 21^st century, we are at a crucial turning point. We have upset nature's sensitive equilibrium releasing harmful substances into the air, polluting rivers and oceans with industrial waste and tearing up the countryside to accommodate our rubbish. These are the consequences of the development of civilization. We are to stop it by joint efforts of all the people of the world.

The range of environmental problems is wide. But the matters of people's great concern nowadays are atmosphere and climate changes, depletion of the ozone layer, freshwater resources, oceans and coastal areas, deforestation and desertification, biological diversity, biotechnology, health and chemical safety. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) concentrates its activities on these issues.