- •Навчальний посібник
- •Why we should feel responsible for future generations
- •Vocabulary
- •Before you Read Reading Without Understanding the Meaning of Every Word
- •Ecology or Egology? The Role of the Individual in the Environmental Crisis
- •Analyzing Topic Sentences
- •Find the topic sentence in each paragraph.
- •Be sure you know the vocabulary:
- •Vocabulary
- •1 Choose the best answer.
- •2 Give the English equivalents to the following words:
- •3 Give the Ukrainian equivalents to the following words:
- •4 Discussion questions.
- •The Environment and Homo Sapiens
- •Vocabulary
- •1 Checking comprehension.
- •2 Match the words below with the following definitions:
- •Pollution
- •The Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl
- •Vocabulary
- •1 Comprehension Questions:
- •2 Match the words below with the following definitions:
- •3 Choose the right answer:
- •Pollution and What We Can Do About It
- •Vocabulary
- •1 Checking comprehension.
- •2 Find the English equivalents to the following words and phrases in the text:
- •4 Think of some interesting ways of recycling each of these:
- •5 Comment on the following words by Professor Gerald Darrell of the University of California. Do you agree with these words? Justify your answer.
- •Prereading Task Reading for a Specific Purpose
- •Ecological Issues of Canada
- •Comprehension Check
- •Vocabulary
- •Using New Words
- •Vocabulary
- •1 Comprehension Questions:
- •2 Match the following words and definitions:
- •3 Choose the right answer:
- •Saving the World’s Tropical Rain Forests.
- •Vocabulary
- •Speaking
- •Translate the text orally: Ecological Solutions to Flooding and Water Supply Problems in Woodlands
- •Vocabulary
- •1 Comprehension Questions:
- •2 Match the following words and definitions:
- •3 Choose the right answer:
- •Population Explosion
- •Extinction
- •Global Warming
- •A brief history of the future
- •Read the article and find out what Stephen Hawking’s predictions for the areas in 3 are.
- •Work with a partner and answer these questions:
- •Look at these extracts from the text. Use prepositions to complete the sentences.
- •Check your answers with the text.
- •Use the expressions in italics and the prepositions from 4 to complete these sentences.
- •Compare your answers with a partner. Are any of the sentences true for you or your country?
- •1 Complete the article using the following phrases.
- •Think of five more predictions for the future of the world. Work in groups and decide which predictions are:
- •How would you like to see the world change in the future? Write five sentences using the prompts:
- •Work in small groups and share your ideas. Which are the most common, interesting or unusual ideas? references
Prereading Task Reading for a Specific Purpose
Use the following text to practice reading for a specific purpose. Do not be distracted by words or sentences you don't understand. Read as quickly as possible only to find out what are the main ecological challenges that Canada face.
Ecological Issues of Canada
In spite of Canada's huge size and relatively small population, we experience some of the same ecological problems creating stress over the world. The Great Lakes have suffered from so much pollution that many fish, plants, and other life have died or are diseased. It is now dangerous to eat the fish from the Great Lakes and some other lakes and rivers in the country.
The great rain forests of the Pacific Northwest are threatened by logging. A growing number of activists fight to protect them and the animals, which live in them, but loggers are concerned about their livelihoods. Logging companies are becoming more aware of their environmental responsibilities, but the issue remains controversial.
People are also concerned about protecting our national parks from developments such as roads and hotels. These developments would attract more people to the parks, but would they also destroy the natural environments the parks were created to protect? Jasper and Banff National Parks, for example, have become extremely popular tourist spots in the summer. This tourism is very good for our economy, but at what point do we say that we choose not to cut down more trees and build more hotels around these beautiful natural sites?
Garbage has become an issue. Every household is now expected to take some responsibility for reducing the amount of garbage it produces annually. Recycling depots and other recycling programs are common in all cities now. Urban house-holds are also beginning to compost plant and animal waste just like rural households have done for centuries.
Canadians are also being encouraged to be more careful with certain kinds of toxic waste. Instead of throwing medication down the toilets where it will poison our rivers, and throwing old paint in the garbage where it will pollute our landfill sites, we are now saving such waste for the toxic waste round-ups in spring and fall. Or, people are taking it to special sites designated for toxic waste.
More and more commuters are turning to buses, trains, and bicycles to get to work rather than driving their cars and burning more gas (which is expensive as well as polluting). Whereas air pollution is not as big a problem in Canadian cities as it is in Mexico City, Santiago, Calcutta, or the industrial centers of China, it is enough of a problem in Toronto, Hamilton, and Vancouver that when weather conditions trap the air over the city, asthmatics suffer. Our grocery stores stock more and more "green" products each year: laundry soap which is less polluting, juice in tetra-paks rather than cans, dish detergent in refill bags rather than plastic containers, cosmetics produced without animal testing, and so on. We are eating less meat and more grains and vegetables. As consumers, Canadians are more conscious that what we buy affects the health of our planet. Nonetheless, we must be ever vigilant of damage to our environment and take action to protect it.