Environment

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We must protect our environment

Our country. Our environment. There are many big and small rivers, green forests, high mountains, lakes and seas in Russia.

Our Earth is our home. I think people must take care of our Motherland.

There are several laws and decisions on this important subject. We have state organizations which pay attention to this problem.

International conventions pay a lot of attention to controlling pollution too.

There are a lot of industrial enterprises in our country that’s why we can’t ignore the problem of the protection of our environment. Our main aim is protection. Our environment must be clean. What must we do? We have to control atmospheric and water pollution, to study man’s influence on the climate. The pollution of the environment influences the lives of animals, plants and humans. If we don’t use chemicals properly we’ll pollute our environment.

Our plants and factories put their waste materials into the water and atmosphere and pollute the environment.

There are many kinds of transport in our big cities, that is why we must pay attention to the protection of our nature and the health of people.

Radiation has become one of the main problems. It is not good for people’s health. Many people died from radiation some years ago in Chernobol. It was a tragedy. Another problem is earthquakes. We have had some terrible earthquakes in Armenia. Our scientists try to forecast earthquakes so that we can protect ourselves from them.

All over the world people do a lot to protect nature, to make their countries richer, to make their lives happier.

Vocabulary:

pollution – загрязнение

environment – окружающая среда

ignore– игнорировать

defence– оборона, защита

protect– охранять

atvospheric– атмосферный

influence– влияние

plant– растение

law – закон

decision – решение

earthquake– землетрясение

forecast– предсказывать, прогнозировать

waste– отбросы производства

enterprise – предприятие

aim - цель

Questions:

1. The protection of our environment is important, isn’t it?

2. Are there any laws on this problem?

3. Do our state organizations pay attention to the protection of the environment?

4. We are against the pollution of the environment?

5. Why is the problem of protecting our nature so important now?

6. Do you know anything about terrible earthquakes in our country?

7. Is it possible to forecast earthquakes?

8. Radiation is a very big problem, isn’t it?

9. What has happened in Chernobol?

10. Do you love your homeland?

11. What can you do to protect our water and air?

Give possible beginnings of the sentences:

1. … organizations which pay attention to this problem.

2. … people must take care of our Motherland.

3. … pay a lot of attention to controlling pollution too.

4. … a lot of industrial enterprises in our country that’s why we can’t ignore the problem of the protection of our environment.

5. … control atmospheric and water pollution, to study man’s influence on the climate.

6. … factories put their waste materials into the water and atmosphere and pollute the environment.

7. … died from radiation some years ago in Chernobol.

8. … try to forecast earthquakes so that we can protect ourselves from them.

Translate into Russian:

1. Our Earth is our home.

2. There are several laws and decisions on this important subject.

3. Our main aim is protection.

4. The pollution of the environment influences the lives of animals, plants and humans.

5. It is not good for people’s health.

6. Another problem is earthquakes.

7. All over the world people do a lot to protect nature.