The environment

The people all over the world are greatly concerned with the environment. The most important problems in this field are: the environmental pollution, ozone layer depletion, diminishing water resources.

The progress of mankind has turned into the threat to its health and life. The environmental pollution is called for the numerous industrial, chemical enterprises, which do not refine their wastes and in emergency cases have no sewage purification, the result of which is the pollution of reservoirs and water basins.

The problem of ozone depletion is also of great importance for the people. There is the urgent need to protect the Earth’s ozone layer. In this connection the international Protocol to protect the ozone layer was worked out by 35 countries in Montreal, Canada in 1987.

One of the sources of environmental pollution is automobile transport. The internal combustion engines which work on oil fuel exhaust a lot of harmful gases. The main task here is: to replace the conventional gasoline powered engines with pollution-free electrical ones. Moreover, the oil supplies are not unlimited and the people will have to look for other sources of energy. By this it is necessary to remember that the most important problems for protection of nature are the nuclear power stations.

Speaking:

Exercise 7. Make an abstract of both texts speaking on their main positions:

1. the most important problems of environment;

2. the reasons of environmental pollution;

3. the problem of ozone layer depletion and its prevention;

4. the task of preventing oil fuel exhaustion by automobile transport.

Checklist for Section II

1. How is Participle II in the function of an attribute translated into Russian?

2. What is the difference between the words pollution – pollutant and chemistry – chemicals?

3. What are the sources of environmental pollution?

4. What are the consequences of nature pollution?

5. Section III

Grammar: Objective Infinitive Construction.

Word-formation: suffix –ant for nouns and adjectives.

Speaking: The problems of air contamination.

Learn the pronunciation and meaning of the words:

contamination	загрязнение
haze	[heIz] туман, дымка, мгла
irritant	раздражитель
emission	выделение, распространение
to encompass	окружать, заключать
to disrupt	разрывать, разрушать
evaporation	[I‚væpə'rəIən] испарение, парообразование
precipitation	выпадение осадков
to interfere	вмешиваться
breakdown	распад
availability	[ə'veIlə'bIlItI] наличие
implication	зд. отношение
yield	[jI:ld] урожай
to cite	ссылаться, цитировать
transboundary	межграничный, повсеместный, глобальный