you think so:
The rate at which we are using up our natural resources, that is supplies of raw materials, e.g. gas, oil, coal, etc.
- the growing amount of waste;
-the «greenhouse effect», i.e. the gradual warming of the Earth's atmosphere which could mean changes in the world's climate;
- the thinning of the ozone layer, i.e. a layer of gas high above the Earth's surface which helps to protect the Earth from the Sun's ultraviolet rays;
-air pollution; water pollution; -soil pollution;
-local environmental problems such as noise and litter.
Grammar Issues to Be Revised
1.Conditional Sentences.
2.The Complex Sentences.
1.Use the Present Simple or Future Simple instead of the infinitives in brackets.
8.If we _______ (use) buses, we _______ (have) less pollution.
9.If we _______ (plant) new trees, rainforests _______ (not, disappear).
10.If we _______ (create) special parks for animals, they _______ (not, be) in danger.
11.If we _______ (create) more parks in our cities, they _______ (be) nicer places to live in.
12.If public transport _______ (be) better, people (use) it more.
13.If people _______ (share) their cars, there _______ (be) fewer cars on the roads.
14.If factories _______ (stop) pouring chemicals into lakes and rivers, there _______ (be) more clean water.
15.If we _______ (save) water from our baths and use it for the garden, the cities _______ (be) greener.
16.If we _______ (repair) leaking pipes, many cities _______ (get) more water.
2.Complete the sentences.
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Children will be able to play safely |
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1.If / every / doorstep / person / the /swept / city / their / would / soon / own / be.
2.mend / It / too / to/ late / is/ never.
3.In / just / the / another / species / of / in / nature / trouble / are / we / eyes.
4.The / man / him / world / & / began / it / without / without / a / itself / complete / will.
5.flowers / in / Earth / laughs/ the/.
4.Answer the questions using conditional sentences I type.
10.What will happen if acid rain kills trees and plants? 11.What will happen if public transport is better?
12.What will happen if hunters continue to kill endangered animals? 13.What will happen when trees disappear-?
14.What will happen if we use more water at home?
15.What will there be if factories use the same water several times? 16.What will happen if water companies make people pay a lot more? 17.What will happen when people stop dropping litter on the beaches-? 18.What will happen if people stop using aerosols?
19.What will happen if people don’t use so much paper?
5. Make up sentences using conjunctions.
1.We all use bicycles. There is not so much air pollution.
2.There are many bins in towns & cities. There is not so much litter on our streets.
3.We don’t pollute lakes & rivers. We have clean drinking water.
4.We stop cutting down rainforests. Fewer plants and animals die.
5.Replace regular light bulbs with fluorescent or halogen bulbs. Fluorescent or halogen bulbs use less energy.
6.Don’t use disposable products. Use products made from recycled materials.
7.Buy a special “low-flow” showerhead. “Low-flow” showerhead is more economical.
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6.Translate these sentences in written form.
1.If we continue to burn and cut down the rain forests as we are doing now, the land will never be the same again.
2.If the trees die, we’ll die too.
3.The factories will pollute our lakes and rivers unless authorities make them pay a good deal of money.
4.As soon as our authorities start thinking about clean water, they will make factories stop pouring industrial waste into the lakes and rivers.
5.Unless automobiles and airplanes burn fuel and discharge millions of tones of pollution into the air every day, we won’t have clean air.
6.After we stop using goods, we burn many of them and further pollute the air.
7.When air pollution settles on land and оn building, it makes them dirty, smells bad and stings eyes.
8.If we don’t do something now, our cities will become impossible to live in.
7. Make up sentences.
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1.As soon as sulphur dioxide gas enters atmosphere
a. annual temperature on the planet increases.
2.Power plants borrow water from waterways for cooling purposes. When this heater water is returned to the body of water from which it has been taken,…
c) it raises the average temperature from 20 to 60 degrees. 3.When the t° of water increases,…
d) it loses the ability to hold oxygen. 4.When water’s chemical makeup changes e) its chemical makeup changes.
5.If water loses the ability to hold oxygen.
f) animals life is threatened, because, they require more oxygen to survive as the temperature rises.
6.If we are to sustain healthy economic growth and improve the quality of our national life.
h) a sufficient supply of clean energy is essential.
8.Make up sentences.
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1.When consumers ________(enjoy) the benefits of industrial productivity, they _______ (share) the problems of disposal.
2.If wastes are deposited in open dumps, it ________ (breed) rates and insects.
3.If wastes are deposited in open dumps, rains ________ (wash) chemicals from these dumps into streams.
4.If rains _________ (wash) chemicals from the dumps into streams and rivers, it ________ (kill) fish and wildlife.
5.If wastes are burned, it __________ (cause) air pollution.
6.If the air is polluted, it __________ (settle) on land and on buildings, making them dirty.
7.If the air pollution _________ (make) everything dirty, it ________
(smell) bad and _______ (sting) our eyes.
8.If the air pollution _________ (make) everything dirty, it ________
(cause) health problems thing dirty, it ________ (cause) health problems.
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