Exercise 7 Agree or disagree with the following sentences according to the information from the text

Exercise 6 Match the words and their definitions.

Exercise 5 Match the parts of the sentences.

Exercise 4 Complete the following sentences.

1. The poisoning of the world’s … is the fastest – spreading …..

2. If present trends continue for …, our planet ….

3. They are filled with poison: ….

4. If nothing is done about it, ….

5. Every ten minutes one kind of animal, plant, ….

6. Air pollution is ….

7. Industrial enterprises emit ….

8. They are the main reason for ….

9. They join and support ….

10. Industrial enterprises emit ….

1. If present trends continue for the next several decades	a. for our planet
2. People are beginning to realize	b. how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are.
3. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead	c. that are alive today will become extinct twenty years from now.
4. We all know	d. our planet will become uninhabitable.,
5. If nothing done about it one million species	e. that environmental problems are not somebody else’s.
6. These emissions have disastrous consequences	f. the North Sea is following.

Word	Definition
1. earthquake	a. the possibility that someone or something will be harmed, destroyed, or killed
2. flood	b. a chemical substance used to kill insects and small animals that destroy crops
3. earth	c. when a particular type of animal or plant stops existing
4. deforestation	d. the air, water, and land on Earth, which can be harmed by man's activities
5. danger	e.a sudden shaking of the earth's surface that often causes a lot of damage
6. poison	f.a substance that is put on the soil to make plants grow
7. fertilizer	g. a substance that can cause death or serious illness if you eat it, drink it etc
8. pesticide	h. a very large amount of water that covers an area that is usually dry
9. extinction	i. the hard surface of the world, as opposed to the sea or air
10.environment	j. the cutting or burning down of all the trees in an area

1. Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems.

2. The seas are in danger.

3. Every ten months one kind of animal, plant or insect dies out forever.

4. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become extinct fifty years from now.

5. In Cairo just breathing the air is life threatening – equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

6. Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substances.

7. An even greater environmental threat is hydroelectric power station.

8. People join and support various international organizations and green parties.

9. The Caspian Sea is on the brink of extinction.

10. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead.

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