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Area burned in 2019 forest fires in Indonesia exceeds 2018

Reuters│Environment│October 21, 2019│4:16 PM

JAKARTA (Reuters)- The amount of land in Indonesia consumed by fires

through September this year has exceeded the amount burned during all of 2018,
according to data given by a government official on Monday.
Raffles Panjaitan, forest fire management acting director at the Forestry and
Environment Ministry, told reporters that by the end of September 2019 a total of
857,756 hectares (2.12 million acres) had been burned.That is more than the 529,267
hectares that burned in 2018, according to Indonesian government data. The fires
have consumed the most land since 2015, when government data showed 2.6 million
hectares burned.
The area burned surged from 328,724 hectares that was consumed between
January and August, Panjaitan said, and added that the size of the burned area is
expected to continue expanding this month, although not “as drastic” as last
month’s.“Fire fighting is continued to be carried out, even today the teams are on the
ground working to prevent escalation”, Panjaitan said.The country has spent months
to battle forest fires in Sumatra and Borneo that have caused thick haze which drifted
over neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.
Rain has started falling in some areas on Sumatra which offered some respite,
but Panjaitan does not expect the rainy season to fully arrive until around mid-
November. Forest and peat fires typically take place in Sumatra and Borneo, often
linked to slash-and-burn practices to clear areas for palm cultivation
Activity 1: Answer the questions below based on the text above!
1. What is the text about?
2. How do you relate paragraphs 2 and 3?
3. In what year was the most forest area burned since 2015, and how many hectares
was the area burned?
4. What is the topic of the fourth paragraph?
5. In 2019, in what month was the most drastic expansion of the forest area burned?
Explain your answer!
6. What is the topic of paragraph 5?
7. What was the worst effect of the forest fires in Indonesia in 2019?
8. According to paragraph 7, what had reduced the effect of the forest fires in
Sumatra?
9. What does the last paragraph mostly tell us about?
10. What can we learn from the news?
Activity 2: Decide whether the following statements are true or false!
1. The forest fires in Indonesia in 2019 was worse than those in 2018.
2. Compared with 2018 and 2019, the amount of area burned in 2015 was the worst.
3. The forest area burned in 2018 was 857,756 hectares.
4. The forest area burned until October 2019 was 328,724 hectares.
5. The expansion of the forest area burned reached its peak in September 2019.
6. The effort to fight forest fire was paused during October because there have been
rains.
7. The forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan affected Malaysia and Singapore.
8. Rain that fell in Sumatra in October reduced the effect of forest fire in Sumatra.
9. The rainy season has started in October.
10. The main cause of the forest fires in Indonesia was the slashand-burn practiced by
palm oil companies. .

Activity 3: Match the words in the left with their synonyms in the right!
Activity 4

Italy has extended its lockdown until Easter, but there is some hope as the
country reports a declining infection rate.
The number of new coronavirus infections reported on Monday was 1,648, as
opposed to 3,815 the previous day.
The death toll, however, rose again, with 812 deaths reported, compared with
756 the day before.
Italy believes the peak of its crisis will come in just over a week's time. It is
the world's hardest hit country in terms of number of deaths. In total, 11,591 have
died in the country, the government says.
On Monday, the national doctors' association announced the deaths of 11 more
doctors, taking the total up to 61.
The lockdown - which was due to end on Friday - will now continue until at
least 12 April, which is Easter Sunday.
Italians have been living under these strict rules for three weeks, with most
shops, bars and restaurants shut. They are not allowed to leave their homes unless it is
deemed essential
The governor of the southern region of Puglia said on Saturday the restrictions
should remain in place until May.
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52100153. Accessed: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020)

Answer the questions below based on the text above!

1) What is the writer’s intention in writing the text?
2) What is the topic of the second paragraph?
3) What does the writer tell about in the third paragraph?
4) Who will likely read the text?
5) What benefit can you get by reading the text?

Activity 5
Answer the questions below based on the text above!
1. What is the news about?
2. “Coronavirus: Italy extends lockdown amid hopes of turning corner” (Title).
What does this sentence mean? Explain in your own words!
3. What makes Italian people have new hopes?
4. Explain about the infections reported and the death toll!
5. How can you relate paragraph 2 and 3?
6. What makes the difference between paragraph 3 and 4?
7. When should the end of the lockdown be?
8. Explain about the strict rules that Italian must obey during the
lockdown period!
9. What do you know about Easter Sunday?
10. What benefit can you get by reading the news?