LISTENING (UNIT 5)

5.1 The report mention 4 deserts are: Gobi desert, Sahara desert, Arctic desert,
the Antarctica desert.
5.2 The two environmental projects are China and Africa.
5.3 Type of wall the countries building is a wall of trees, Great Green Wall.
6.1. 30%
6.2. 1978
6.3. They plant trees to stop Gobi desert growing towards the city of Northern
China.
6.4. 66 billion
6.5 4500 km long with about 100 billion trees
6.6. 20 countries
6.7. the new forest will stop the desert destroy more homes and farms in region.
6.8. The forest will be about 15 km wide and 7775 km long.
Fill the blank
(1) Thirty percent
(2) Countries
(3) 1978
(4) 66 billion trees
(5) 2050
(6) 4 500 kilometres long
(7) 100 billion trees
(8) Twenty countries
(9) Fifteen
(10) 7 775 kilometres long
READING
1. Number of crew: 6 crews
2. Number of bottles: 12 500 bottles
3. Length: 18m
4. Width: 6m
5. Weight: 12 000kg
6. Average speed: 5 knots
7. Distance of journey: 15 300 072 km
8. Number of days at sea: 129 days
CRTICAL THINKING
1. B (you get near to the Plastiki you realize there’s a big difference)
2. B (humans throw away 4 rubbish causes about 80% of the pollution in the
sea)
3. A (Scientists think that around 1 million seabirds die every year from plastic
pollution)
4. B (It’s made of twelve thousand five hundred re-used plastic bottles)
5. C (The crew can make meals with vegetables from the small garden at the
back of the boat)
6. A
7. C
8. A (Originally, de Rothschild thought the boat could only travel once, but it
lasted so well that he is….again one day)