3. Translate these words and word-combinations and put them into your vocabularies:

An influence- a shower-

A rainbow- pollution-

Misty- nuclear weapons-

A shortage of food- a reptile-

A government- a poisoned river-

The Statue of Liberty- industrial waste-

Radiation- heat-

A greenhouse- the greenhouse effect-

Sunlight- acid rain-

A rainstorm- an ozone hole-

Coast- health-

A population- an environment-

4. Read and translate the text, find the unknown words in it and write them down into your vocabularies: Air Pollution

When the Americans decided to clean up the Statue of Liberty in 1986, the first thing they had to do was to make a hole in her nose and take away the acid rain that had collected inside. The polluted air of New York had mixed with the rain and damaged the Statue badly. And you certainly know the most of the pollution in big cities comes from cars and buses.

More and more people are told not to be in direct sunlight, because ultraviolet radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer. Normally the ozone layer in the atmosphere protects us from such radiation, but if there are holes in the ozone layer ultraviolet radiation can get to the Earth. Many scientists think that these holes are the result of air pollution.

Nuclear power stations can go wrong and cause nuclear pollution. This happened in Windscale in Britain, in Three Mile island in the USA and the Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union. Nuclear pollution cannot be seen but its effects can be terrible.

To make air clean again we need good filters and nuclear power stations, at factories and plants and also in cars and buses.

Both clean air and clean water are necessary for our health. If people want to survive they must solve these problems quickly. Man is beginning to understand that his environment is not just his own town or country, but the whole Earth. That’s why people all over the world think and speak so much about the ecology.

5. Use the expression from the brackets to complete the sentences:

(natural resources in danger of extinction long-term indigenous people )

Future generations natural habitats destruction way of life

1. The ________ of the rain forests is very worrying.

2. Forests are being cut down and the _______ of ma animals are being destroyed.

3. As a result, many species are ______________.

4. This threatens the of many of the _______ who live in the remote areas.

5. We need to think more _______ and realize that everything we do has implications for______.

6. If we want to hand on our world to our children we can’t continue to misuse ______ as we do now.

Air quality uninhabitable heavily polluted cloud of pollution

1. The ________ in many cities is so poor that we have an increase in chest and lung illnesses.

2. These cities are _________ and some are covered by a ______.

3. Unless we start to do something about them many of our biggest cities will become_______.