Стр.64 Unit 7 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс
VOCABULARY 1 T054 Match headlines 1–3 with ecological problems a–d. Use a dictionary if you need to. There is one extra problem. Then listen to the news reports and check your answers.
- Experts say world’s climate is $$1^\circ\mathrm{C}$$ warmer than 150 years ago.
- Doctors warn that water is not safe to drink.
- Pollution from UK factories is destroying Scandinavian forests.
- a) acid rain
- b) cutting down forests
- c) pollution of rivers
- d) the greenhouse effect
Complete the texts with the correct words from the box.
Pollution, destroys, lakes, the Earth, temperatures, atmosphere
Acid Rain
Acid rain first became a problem in the Industrial Revolution, but it is getting worse today. 1 ______ from large cities, especially from power stations, enters the 2 ______ and then falls as acid rain. It 3 ______ forests and can kill life in rivers and 4 ______. We can see the effects of acid rain in eastern Canada, Scandinavia and central Europe.
The Greenhouse Effect
The Greenhouse Effect describes the situation when the air around 5 ______ gets warmer because of gases which trap heat. This is a problem because if 6 ______ rise by $$1^\circ\mathrm{C}$$, the sea level will rise by over 25 cm and many cities will be in danger.
Find the verb that does not collocate with nouns. Use a dictionary to help you.
- help, protect, destroy, limit the environmental
- reduce, increase, recycle, limit pollution
- sort, recycle, reduce, protect domestic waste
- protect, sort, help, save plants and animals
- replant, cut down, recycle, destroy forests
In pairs, look at the photo and answer the questions. Use expressions from Exercise 3 to help you.
- Where are the people? What are they doing? Why?
- Which of these ways of helping the environment are common in our country? Bottle banks, recycling paper, sorting domestic waste, lead-free petrol, replanting forests.
1. 1 – d (the greenhouse effect), 2 – c (pollution of rivers), 3 – a (acid rain). Extra: b (cutting down forests).
2.
1. Pollution from large cities, especially from power stations, enters the atmosphere and then falls as acid rain.
2. It destroys forests and can kill life in rivers and lakes.
3. The Greenhouse Effect describes the situation when the air around the Earth gets warmer because of gases which trap heat.
4. This is a problem because if temperatures rise by 1°C, the sea level will rise by over 25 cm and many cities will be in danger.
3.
1. destroy the environment
2. recycle pollution
3. protect domestic waste
4. sort plants and animals
5. recycle forests
Words that do not collocate: destroy, recycle, protect, sort, recycle.
4.
1. The people are at a recycling centre. They are sorting domestic waste because they want to recycle it and help the environment.
2. In our country, bottle banks, recycling paper and sorting domestic waste are common. Lead-free petrol is also used, and in some places forests are replanted.
