Unit 6. World ecological organizations

PRE–TEXT EXERCISES

I. Memorize the pronunciation of the following words:

1. Lawmaker – законодавець

2. To persuade – переконувати

3. Whaling – китобійний промисел

4. Nuclear – атомний, ядерний

5. Force – сила, примус

6. To threaten – загрожувати

7. Hazardous – небезпечний

8. Australia – Австралія

9. Austria – Австрія

10. France – Франція

11. Zealand – Зеландія

12. Sweden – Швеція

II. Translate the following international words:

organization, to control, political, group, effect, system, international, resource, method, to protest, party.

III. Words to remember:

1. to influence lawmakers – впливати на законодавців

2. to elect leaders – обирати керівників

3. to care about the environment – піклуватися про навколишнє середовище

4. to protect land from development – захищати землю від обробки

5. pollution prevention system – система запобігання забрудненню

6. government policy – політика уряду

7. to call attention to smth – привертати увагу до чогось

8. offshore oil drilling – видобування нафти у морі

9. nuclear weapons testing – випробування ядерної зброї

10. the dumping of wastes – скидання відходів

11. nonviolent methods – ненасильницькі методи

12. to represent environmental concerns – представляти інтереси з охорони навколишнього середовища

13. to use findings – використовувати отримані дані

14. to raise money – брати у борг, отримувати позики на щось

World ecological organizations

Environmental organizations work to help control pollution by trying to influence lawmakers and to elect political leaders who care about the environment. Some groups raise money to buy land and protect it from development. Other groups study the effects of pollution on the environment and develop pollution prevention and management systems. Such groups use their findings to persuade government and industry to prevent or reduce pollution. Environmental organizations also publish magazines and other materials to persuade people to prevent pollution.

Green Peace is an international environmental organization. It works to change government and industrial policies that threaten the world's environment or natural resources. Green peace calls attention to the dangers to the environment of such actions as whaling, air and water pollution, offshore oil drilling, nuclear weapons testing, and the dumping of radioactive and hazardous wastes. Local chapters of Green peace have been established in major cities throughout the world. Members of Green peace use direct and nonviolent methods of protest. Without using force, they try to stop the activity.

An environmental movement led by a group called Green World has worked to protect the environment and public health in Ukraine. Many Ukrainians oppose the use оf nuclear energy because of an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in north-central Ukraine in 1986.

Political parties representing environmental concerns have formed in many industrial nations. These organizations, often known as Green parties, have had a growing influence on environmental policies. Countries with Green parties include Australia, Austria, Germany, Finland, France, New Zealand, Spain, and Sweden.

TEXT–BASED ASSIGNMENTS

І. Read these words and say what part of speech they are formed of; translate them:

environmental, lawmaker, development, to threaten, testing, dumping, nonviolent, political, industrial.

II. From the nouns from the following verbs with the help of suffix – ing and translate them:

to control, to pollute, to farm, to hunt, to mine, to limit, to thin, to dump, to warm, to heat.

III. Find out synonyms:

1. pollution a) garbage

2. wastes b) catastrophe

3. chapters c) to establish

4. to form d) contamination

5. accident e) departments

IV. Find out antonyms:

1. to help a) to increase

2. to reduce b) to draw attention

3. to call attention c) safe

4. hazardous d) to do harm

V. Translate into Ukrainian:

environmental organizations, to control pollution, to protect the land from development, to change industrial policies, to publish magazines, to persuade people, to call attention to the dangers to the environment, air pollution, water pollution, nuclear weapons testing, the dumping of radioactive wastes, nonviolent methods of protest, to use force, to stop the activity, to oppose the use of nuclear energy, nuclear power plant, environmental concerns, to have a growing influence.