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51 Rewrite the following sentences, starting with the given words.

  1. It is known that William is a scientist.

William ...

  1. It is said that the inventor of the first computer is Charles Babbage. Charles Babbage ...

  2. It is thought that Fleming discovered penicillin by accident. Fleming ...

  3. It was reported that X-rays had been discovered by W. Roentgen. W. Roentgen ...

  1. Look at the scheme and explain the interconnections between different parts of the environment.

WHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENT’?

Y FAMILY

CLIMATE

FOOD

POPULATION

MY SCHOOL

Country­ side

WASTE

DISPOSAL

It contains many different parts, just like the pieces of a big jigsaw puzzle.

Human beings, animals, buildings, the earth, the air, the seas, our climate...and all these parts interconnect.

In pairs, think how the phenomena in both the columns can be connected and comment on them.

A

B

1 global warming

a water shortages

2 earthquakes

b climate change

3 destruction of forests

c heat waves, intense rainstorms

(tropical forests in particular)

and floods

4 highly developed and

d growing demand for energy

booming economy

e land erosion

5 world population growth

f increasing production of carbon

6 agricultural mismanagement

dioxide (the main greenhouse gas)

7 development of new

g growing demand for comfort,

technologies

electric devices, machines, etc.

8 consumer society

h tsunamis

  1. Word»- file Listen about one of the environmental problems and say what trouble it causes.

acid rain [,sesid ’rein] extinction [ik'stigkjn] a particle [’pa:tikl] shortage ['Jo:tid3] waste disposal

['weist dispaozl] to escape [l'skeip] to react [ri'aekt] damaging [’daemid3ig]