Genetic engineering, ozone layer depletion,natural resource depletion,global warming,air and soil pollution,climate change

7. Give the names to the following definitions and comment on them using the clichés.

Example: It is considered as producing of excessive amounts of garbage and waste (mainly plastic, but also out of other synthetic and non-synthetic materials). It’s a waste disposal.

- This is supposed to be the decrease of tree cover due to clearing spaces for industrial, residential and commercial purposes.

- It means the increase of human and animal diseases caused by air, water, soil pollution.

- It is a pollution of water bodies (sources of clear drinking water) with toxic pollutants.

- It is such a phenomenon of atmospheric condensation containing nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

- This term denotes the migration of population from urban areas to rural areas with lower density.

- This means the increase of ocean acidity caused by excessive production of CO2.

- It is a phenomenon of extinction of species and as a consequence a destruction of eco systems.

8. What’s needed to be done (необходимо выполнить) and what’s already done to protect the environment? Classify the expressions given below, discuss them in groups of 2-4 persons and add the examples of your own.

9. What does the term “ ecological balance ” mean (значить)? How it can be kept (to keep, kept, kept – сохранять)? Give your own understanding of it.

10. Imagine you’re a politician and you have a possibility to make the laws and amendments to them. What kind of laws and amendments (поправки к законам) to the already existing (существующий) laws (законы) would you make to protect the environment? (One person will have 2 minutes to think it over then he/she is to go to the blackboard and tell about it.) Use the conditional sentences (условные предложения), think of the clichés.

Example: If I were a politician, I would do … (this and this)

11. What everyone of us can make to save the ecology of our planet? Give your own opinion.