- •Home Part 2 Before Watching
- •1. Study the following words and word combinations. Use them to complete the spaces in the sentences below.
- •2. Before you watch the video think what problems could be raised in it. Note them down. While Watching
- •1. According to this episode agriculture was the first great revolution. Decide which of the numbers given is correct.
- •2. In this episode the invention of agriculture is discussed. Decide whether these statements are true (t) or false (f).
- •3. Watch the episode again. Then look at these sentences and circle the correct information.
- •After Watching Look at language
- •1. Write out the equivalents in pairs. Then make sentences with some of them.
- •2. Form derivatives of the words given below filling them into the proper boxes.
- •3. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Follow-up Activities
- •Memory Test. How do you remember? Try these questions.
- •Sum up what you have learnt about he changes that look place on the Earth and write an essay.
- •Episode 1
- •Before Watching
- •Before you watch episode 1 study the following words and word combinations.
- •While Watching
- •While watching the episode again mark the following statements as true or false. Tick the ones that are correct.
- •After Watching Language Work
- •Form derivatives of the words given below filling them into the proper boxes.
- •Match the words in column a with the words in column b to form a phrase that makes sense.
- •Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Follow-up Activities
- •How do you remember? Try these questions.
- •Sum up what you have learnt about the problem of deforestation in some parts of the world.
- •Find the key words of Episode 1 in the puzzle. There are 6 of them.
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Translate the following sentences into English.
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Леса обеспечивают необходимой для жизни влагой все живое.
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Леса являются основой климатического баланса, от которого зависим все мы.
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Только за последние 40 лет площадь, занимаемая крупнейшими лесами Амазонии, сократилась на 20 %. Их вытеснили фермы, занимающиеся разведением крупного рогатого скота и выращиванием соевых бобов.
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При современных темпах обезлесивания леса на острове Борнео (Калимантан) исчезнут через 10 лет.
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Первобытный лес на острове Борнео был крупнейшей территорией биоразнобразия на Земле.
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В связи с увеличением спроса на бумагу за последние годы в 5 раз число плантаций эвкалипта растет.
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Почти треть населения мира (свыше 2 млрд.) живет за счет производства древесного угля.
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Жители острова Пасхи вырубили пальмовые деревья для получения древесины.
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После массовой вырубки лесов население сталкивается с широким распространением эрозии почвы.
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Дождевая вода смывает плодородную почву со склонов гор, а то, что остается, совершенно непригодно для сельского хозяйства. В некоторых частях Мадагаскара эрозия представляет собой катастрофическое зрелище.
Follow-up Activities
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How do you remember? Try these questions.
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In what way do the trees function?
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Prove that forests provide the remedies that cure us.
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What has happened with the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon?
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How could you explain the following phrase “A forest is turned into meat”?
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What was the Earth’s greatest reservoir of biodiversity?
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What are the examples of massive deforestation?
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What are the consequences of deforestation?
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In some countries deforestation is a last resort to survive. Why?
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What were the reasons of the disappearance of civilization on Easter Island?
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Sum up what you have learnt about the problem of deforestation in some parts of the world.
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Find the key words of Episode 1 in the puzzle. There are 6 of them.
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