Universidad Técnica De Oruro Designed by Lic.

Alba Colque Miranda

Facultad Nacional de Ingeniería LIN 1103 - C

PRACTICE 3-Contextual Reference

SAVING THE
EARTH
Read the text carefully then go o through a questionaire.
Years ago there wasn´t a problem with rubbish because things like plastic and disposable nappies had not been
invented. There wasn´t so much packaging on items you bought either. But now with everything so over packaged
wrapped and disposable we are suffering the consequences of far too much waste. The trouble is not everything
can be recycled or will rot away. You used to be able to get a refund on glass bottles when you took them back to
5 the shop. Now they are either collected from your house by the council or you can take them to a bottle bank.

The fact that paper can be recycled and easy to dispose is great, but remember paper is made from trees, which
are important to the environment. The rainforests have been slowly disappearing for a while now. We need them
not just because it helps with the climate that is important as like all plants which give us oxygen. They are also a
home to many animals which rely on them for their survival.
10 The best wast is organic, dead leaves; carrot, onion skins and so all rot down and make fertile soil. This in turn will
help the plants and vegetables giving them much needed food. So if you are able to have a compost heap in your
garden, you will be heelping the environment and your garden will love you for it.
Acid rain is another serious problem because it is damaging to plants and it is caused by pollutants such as sulphur
dioxide and nitrogen oxides. These come from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
15 Dropping litter is not just a lazy thing to do, so it makes work for other people, it is bad for the environment and
looks ugly. So think before you drop litter either bin it to keep.
When rivers and seas are polluted by waste we are not only stealing their beauty but are spoiling it for ourselves
too. Our health can also suffer. Saddly accidents occur; oil slicks sometimes happen and wreck the environment.
Animals tend to suffer the most from these incidents. We should really have in place something that will prevent so
20 much destruction, rather than just waiting for it to happen, then trying to clean up the damage.

Although we are trying to stop the hole in the ozone layer getting any bigger, nuclear waste is still a serious
problem. The ozone layer protects us from harmful ultra –violet rays. Its hole has been caused by
chlorofluorocarbons (cfc´s) a chemical that was found in some products. Refrigerators used to contain them. So do
we care enough to the Earth we have inherited and our passing onto future generations? Or is it now all too late to
25 do anything? Each one of us can make a difference and each one of us is responsible to the environment. It takes
care of us and we should take care of it.
 Universidad Técnica De Oruro Designed by Lic. Alba Colque Miranda

Facultad Nacional de Ingeniería LIN 1103 - C

VOCABULARY
1 nappies pañales

2 rot away / rot down pudrirse

3 either o bien, tampoco, cualquiera

4 rely on depender, contar con

5 oil slicks derrame de petróleo

6 wreck destruir, dañar

7 rather than y no, más que, en lugar de,

8 clean up limpiar, limpieza, saneamiento

9 harmful nocivo, dañino

10 inherited heredado

DIRECTIONS

1. INGRESAR A LA PLATAFORMA A LESSON 1 Y LUEGO CUESTIONARIO.

2. ESTA PRÁCTICA 3 CORRESPONDE A LECTURA DE COMPRENSIÓN BASADA EN EJERCICIOS DE REFERENCIA
CONTEXTUAL. (PRÁCTICAS 1 Y 2 SE REALIZARON EN AULA ANTES DE LA CUARENTENA)
3. EL CUESTIONARIO DEBE SER REALIZADO COMO SI ESTUVIESEN EN AULA HACIENDO USO DEL
VOCABULARIO Y DICCIONARIO.
4. EN EL CUESTIONARIO DEBERÁN RESPONDER CON 1, o 2 PALABRAS

ÉXITOS!!