While Watching

1. Watch episode 1 and say whether your suppositions about the essence of the episode are true.

2. Watch the episode again. It says about the role of forest on our planet and the consequences of deforestation. Watch and fill in the gaps.

1. The forests provide the …that is necessary for life.

2. The forests store … containing more than all the Earth’s atmosphere.

3. The forests are the cornerstone of … on which we all depend.

4. The trees of primary forests provide a … for three-quarters of the planet’s biodiversity.

5. The forests provide the … that cure us.

6. In 40 years the world’s largest rainforest, … has been reduced by … percent.

7. Borneo, … was covered by a vast … .

8. The forest’s diversity was replaced by a single …, the oil palm.

9. Another example of massive … is the eucalyptus. It is used to make ….

10. Eucalyptus trees grow quickly but exhaust … .

11. On the hills of Haiti only … are left.

12. In some parts of …the erosion is spectacular.

13. The inhabitants of Easter Island, the Rapanui, chopped palm trees for … .

3. While watching the episode again mark the following statements as true or false. Tick the ones that are correct.

1. All living matter (water, air, soil and trees) is linked.

2. The trees breathe carbon into the atmosphere.

3. The forests are the remedies that cure us.

4. The Amazon forest has been reduced almost by 90 per cent.

5. At the current rate of deforestation the primary forest in Borneo will have disappeared within 10 years.

6. The forest diversity on Borneo was replaced by only one species, the eucalyptus.

7. Eucalyptus plantations have increased fivefold in 50 years.

8. Deforestation destroys the essential to produce the superfluous.

9. In Haiti, one of the world’s richest countries, charcoal is one of the population’s main consumables.

10. Living on the most isolated island in the world, the Rapanui exploited their resources rather carefully.

11. After the disappearance of palm trees the Rapanui faced widespread soil erosion.

After Watching Language Work

1. Form derivatives of the words given below filling them into the proper boxes.

Noun	Verb	Adjective
provision
	depend
		reducible
	produce
consumption
	disappear
erosion
		inhabitable

2. Match the words in column a with the words in column b to form a phrase that makes sense.

A	B
to increase to provide to be the cornerstone to be replaced to exhaust to survive to chop down to be covered by to be used	water reserves the cataclysm for lumber a primary forests fivefold of the climatic balance a habitat to feed livestock and poultry by a single species