Environmental protection

Our planet Earth is only a tiny part of the universe, but nowadays it's the only place where we can live. People have lived on our planet for many years. They lived and live on different continents, in different countries. People depend on their planet, the sun, animals and plants around them. Environment is everything in the world around us that surround and affects all life on earth, including the air, food, water, plants, animals and other.

The twenty first century is a century of the scientific and technological progress. But at the same time, this progress gave birth to a very serious problem – the problem of environment.

There are many consequences of damaging the environment. One of them is acid rain. Another one is water shortage resulting from abuse of arable lands in agriculture. The third one is destroying the ozone layer of the Earth through pollution from factories and plants. The fourth problem is damage of water and soils. The fifth one is damage to wildlife: numerous species of animals and plants can disappear.

If we are unable to learn to use the environment carefully and protect it from damage caused by man’s activities, very soon we’ll have no world to live in.

Exercise 6 Read the text and write suitable heading to each paragraph 

Exercise 7 Speak on given topic. “Environment "

Look at the pictures. What are the main problems? Do you have any ideas for solutions?

Think about:

• saving energy and water
• recycling
• different types of transport
• planting trees
• new ‘green’ fuels

Exercise8 Discuss which of these activities are good/bad for the environment.

· Cycling to work/university.

· Paying more for environmentally-friendly products.

· Using plastic bags.

· Buying cheap, mass-produced clothes.

· Buying imported fruit and vegetables.

a) be

b) will be

c) am

d) was

2. If I _____my exams successfully, my mom____ buy me a computer.

a) will, pass

b) won’t,passOK

c) pass, will

d) would pass,will

3. What ____you do if _____not pass the exam?

a) will, will

b) do, do

c) did, do

d) will, do

4. She (stay) in London if she (get) a job.

a) stays, will get

b) will stay, gets

c) would stay, got

d) stayed,got