- •Unit 6 environmental issues
- •1. Match the words (1-17) with the nouns (a-q) to make compound nouns. Use your dictionary to help you:
- •2. Complete the text with compound words from above. Use 1-5 in the first paragraph, 6-12 in the second paragraph, and 13-17 in the third:
- •3. Read and translate text 1:
- •4. Scan the report and answer the questions:
- •5. Scan the report again. What do the numbers below refer to?
- •6. Read the report again. Are the statements expressed as fact (f) or speculation (s) in the text?
- •7. Read and translate the article and find the words according to the definitions below:
- •Greenpeace
- •8. Read and translate text 2: War on waste
- •9. Read the text carefully. Match sentences a-g with gaps 1-6. There is one sentence that you do not need:
- •10. Look through the text, ignoring the gaps. What is the main objective of the swag campaign?
- •11. Match the two halves of these expressions from the text:
- •12. Choose the correct preposition in these sentences.
- •13. Read and translate Text 3: what’s the earth coming to?
- •Is there any future in futurism?
- •14. Find English equivalents in the text for the following words:
- •15. Read and translate Text 4: democracy vs. The atom technological euphoria
- •16. Find English equivalents in the text for the following words:
- •17. Discussion:
- •18. Translate into English:
- •19. Group work and essays:
14. Find English equivalents in the text for the following words:
1 prevent air arriving at nose and mouth by use of a soft object
2 rapid multiplication, reproduction
3 too rapid using up of food, energy, materials, etc
4 existing as a natural and permanent part or quality of
5 factories
6 supersonic transport
7 risky
8 secondary or indirect effect
9 quick, imperfect view
10 enlarged view of sth
11 marked to show what something is, where it is to go, etc
12 exact, free from error
13 not valid, not sound, not well-based
14 of new fashion (generally pejorative)
15 reaching an opinion about a possibility beyond the strict evidence of facts, events
16 research team
17 inconsistent, opposed in character, unable to exist in harmony
18 extreme scarcity of food for a group of people
19 prospering, well and active
20 showing sound judgement and common sense, astute
21 twelfth sign of the Zodiac, Latin for 'Fish'
22 assess, evaluate
23 prominent article in a newspaper or magazine
24 buying and selling of stocks and shares
25 looking forward a long way in the future
26 programme or timetable
27 look closely, as if unable to see well
28 complex and refined
29 instruments
30 statistics of births, deaths, diseases, etc
31 range of action or observation
32 person who predicts the future
33 unsystematic, unplanned
34 prevent from happening
35 far away
36 a place of temporary suffering, after death, in the Christian faith
37 trap, unsuspected snare or danger
38 firmly established, of a plant
39 support
15. Read and translate Text 4: democracy vs. The atom technological euphoria
Formerly, rulers were blamed by their subjects for endless wars, exploitation and cruelty. But the rulers of today's industrial democracies are suspected of sins no less grave: levity, irresponsibility, even recklessness. They have, their subjects fear, fallen prey to technological euphoria. Parliaments either do not decide these matters or do not know what they are talking about; posterity, to whom we will bequeath the poisonous, carcinogenic, perhaps mutagenic garbage of our nuclear civilization, is not represented in the councils of state; the level of acceptable risk is decided for our societies by technocratic fiat rather than by decisions democratically arrived at. Admittedly, the nuclear issue is complex. At a recent international conference, this baffling complexity led to the somewhat helpless summary: 'For every expert who says mankind cannot live with nuclear energy, there is at least one more who says mankind cannot live without it.' Primordial fears of the atom, a democratic horror of inscrutable decision making processes and, perhaps, the lure of yet another cause worth demonstrating, protesting and fighting about - these make up a potent mixture. And the whole issue undeniably poses a serious challenge to democracy. How do we define technological problems in a democratic system? How do we clear up misunderstandings, disperse doubts, handle the manifestations of objectors? How can we harness the planners and make them responsible, or at least responsive, to the people? These questions must be answered lest democracy be trampled underfoot as technology marches on. (Newsweek)