1. Man and environmental problems

2. “We do not own the Earth, we have borrowed it from the future generation”

4. Find English equivalents:
The 1st group
Грязный
Медикаменты
Решение
Кислотный дождь
Медленно разрушает
Уменьшить эффект
Использовать энергию
Осознавать
Прекратить убивать
The 2nd group
Насекомые
Минеральное топливо
Защищать
Переносится
Уровень загрязнения
Ядерная энергия
Довольно дорого
Земля в опасности
Убивать самих себя

6. What (9)… people do to cut down on air pollution?
Fill in the missing words:
Air pollution
We need certain things to stay alive and (1)…. We need clean air to (2)… and pure water to drink. But we can’t get all these things by (3)…. We live in large communities so we can (4) … our health problems only working together.
(5) … air is a community problem. Air becomes polluted in many ways. Cars, trucks, (6)… are among the worst polluters. Air can also be polluted by smoke and gases from factories.
Air pollution can (7)…, or make worse diseases. They usually affect older people. But everyone may feel uncomfortable and (8)… from lack of energy when air isn’t clean.
What (9)… people do to cut down on air pollution?
Today, many factories use devices to (10)… the smoke, dust, or harmful (11)…. Special kinds of gasoline for cars can help reduce air pollution. More efficient engines (12)… help too.
a) can b) breathe c) cause d) polluted
e) gases f) healthy g) do h) buses
i) ourselves j) reduce k) solve l) suffer

7. Key: 7 – c 1 – f 8 – l 2 – b 9 – g 3 – i 10 – j 4 – k 11 – e 5 – d
12 – a
1 – f
2 – b
3 – i
4 – k
5 – d
6 – h

8. Complete these word-building tables.
Nouns Verbs
Waste …
… Protect
… Destroy
Pollution …
Damage …
… Populate
Development …
Nouns Adjectives
Damage …
Environment …
… white
Harm …
… safe
Danger …
Water …

9. Choose the right variant.
1. One way to protect plants and animals is to protect their natural habitats.
1) True ) False ) Not stated
2. By conserving wetlands, people help to protect farm animals.
3. Sensible hunting can help to maintain the natural balance of animal population.
4. It’s important to stop nuclear waste.
5. When chemicals are used to kill insects, they can’t kill birds that feed on them.
6. Chemicals used on crops can poison fish.
7. The gases produced by cars and factories never return to earth in rainwater.

10. What should and shouldn’t we do to protect our environment?

11. attract more public attention to environmental problems!
We should
attract more public attention to environmental problems!
take part in the environmental actions!
clean streets and yards regularly!
use less packaging!
build recycling factories and recycle waste! keep the land, air and water clean!
protect the environment from industrial pollution!
save water, gas, energy and other natural resources!
develop international cooperation to solve ecological problems
together!

12. waste water, gas, energy, natural resources!
We shouldn’t
waste water, gas, energy, natural resources!
put poisons into the water, air and soil ! dump industrial waste into rivers, lakes, seas and oceans!
turn our planet into a pile of rubbish !

14. Anagrams What are these words?
1. n t e n v i e r m o n o l n i p l u t o
3. a s e w t o p i o s n
5. u i v s r e v c o y e o l g
7. h t a t a b i r o t p e c t
9. n r u a c e l h s e c l a m i c

15. Conditional sentences
Make up the sentence:
e. g. If we develop international cooperation we’ll solve ecological problems