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Тема курсу: Environmental

problems.

І. ПРИГАДАЙ, ТИ ЦЕ ЗНАЄШ!
- Read the statement. Explain how do you
understand it, give your comment:

“ THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANET IN OUR HANDS!”

- Do you agree with these words?

- Really, every day there are more and more animals and plants which are in
danger of becoming extinct. Their natural habitats are destroyed by human activity.
Forests are cleared for farming or housing. Oceans and rivers are polluted. The seas
and the air will become more and more polluted. The future might be wonderful or
might be terrible – it’s our choice.

- The topic of our course іs “Environmental problems”.

- You’ll..
watch the interesting video about environmental problems;
read the text about our nature, environmental problems.
discuss the main problems for humanity;
find the ways of solving the ecological problems.
– We’ve spoken about the most important problems of the planet, such as litter, air
pollution, water pollution, the destruction of the forest.
 ІІ. ЗРОЗУМІЙ, ЦЕ ПРОСТО!
1) – When we speak about the environment, what words do you associate
with this topic? Look at the pictures and explain the following:

What is the
environment?

- Good! Answer the questions:

 What are some types of pollution?

 What can you do to help prevent pollution?
 Who do you think is more responsible for pollution, individual people or the
government?
2) - Now, I suggest to you learn the new words. Open your vocabulary and write
down new words and translate them.
New vocabulary Translation New vocabulary Translation

greenhouse effects ? responsible ?

acid rain ? litter ?
the hole in the ozone layer ? garbage ?
nuclear waste ? humanity ?
toxic waste ? destruction ?
to care ? to prevent ?

3) Read the text. Translate it and do the task.

Environmental problems.
Young people today are more aware of the
environment than ever before. This is the first really
“green” generation. Mark Farrell asked Claudia, 19,
from London about her opinion on this problem.
There are lots of environmental problems – the
greenhouse effects, acid rain, the hole in the ozone
layer, and so on. There’s also air pollution causing
asthma. And there’s nuclear waste and other kinds of
toxic waste.
But my problem is that I don’t feel I can do anything about it myself. It’s all so
big and out of control.
How can you have clear opinions about all these scientific things?
You would have to be an expert on nuclear energy, on the weather, on chemistry,
on everything. And another thing … only the politicians are in a position to do
anything about it, and they don’t seem to care that much. It’s not worth voting for the
Green Party, because they’re so small. And the other parties don’t want to do
anything serious because it would be unpopular. I suppose in the
end things will get so bad that they’ll just have to do something.
 4) Note with “T” if the statement is true, and with “F” if it is false.
a) The greenhouse effect, acid rain, the hole in ozone layer are
environmental problems.
b) There’s air pollution preventing asthma.
c) Claudia doesn’t feel she can do anything about it herself.
d) You would have to be an expert on nuclear energy, on the weather and
so on.
e) Claudia thinks that only children are in a position to do anything about
environmental problems.
f) Claudia thinks that the politicians don’t seem to care about these
problem.
g) It’s worth voting for the Yellow Party because it’s big.
h) Claudia thinks that many parties don’t want to do anything serious.
i) Claudia thinks that in the end things will get better.

5) Match the words with their definitions

1. Litter a) an area set aside and carefully

panned with all the necessary
elements for preserving nature
2. Fauna b) organisms physical and biological surroundings
3. Flora c) warming of temperatures around the world
4. Garbage can d) layer of gasses that surrounds the Earth including the
troposphere and stratosphere
5. Global warming e) animals or animal life
6. Climate f) plants or plant life
7. Atmosphere g) aspects of the weather such as temperature rainfall
light air movement
8. Biosphere h) you can even kill with this dangerous thing
9. Pollution j) to make dirty air water everything around us
10. Acid rain k) rain polluted by chemical compounds that have been
released into the atmosphere from factories
6) Work above text “We and our nature”.
- Read the text and fill in the blanks with the words given
below.
WE AND OUR NATURE
Our life becomes more __(1)__ and more
interesting. But we seldom think that the majority
of__(2)__ bring harm to a man. Today the greatest
problem for humanity is__(3)__. Pollution is
the__(4)__ of the environment including air, water
and land. This problem is__(5)__ typical for
heavily__(6)__ cities and towns where
metallurgical plants, steel mills, mines, chemical
plants are situated. Uncontrolled emissions of
harmful__(7)__ and dust pollute everything around us. Very often they are the reason
of__(8)__ rains poisoning earth and water, destroying forests and even buildings.
It is worth__(9)__ that one third of all emissions into the atmosphere originates
from automobile transport.
During some period of time it was considered that__(10)__ power stations were
safe. In 1986__(11)__ disaster showed that nuclear energy can be extremely
dangerous. Large areas of agricultural and forest lands of Ukraine, Belarus and
Russia will remain unsafe for a man for eight thousand years.
Another problem of big cities is __(12)__. The wastes from plants and __(13)__
contaminate water and soil. Household wastes such as all kinds of plastics and so on
remain__(14)__ for tens of years. Another reason of soil poisoning is the use of
materials which help agricultural products to grow fast but these products
are__(15)__ for man.
The list of problems may be endless –__(16)__effect, ozone holes, etc. It is clear
that it is necessary to use__(17)__ equipment at the plants and factories look for
wasteless technologies, learn to use natural sources of energy, such as wind and sun,
use new recycling technologies.

industrialized acid factories

pollution substances unruined
mentioning inventions harmful
Chernobyl nuclear greenhouse
comfortable wastes extremely
purification contamination
Complete the table.
1 7 13
2 8 14
3 9 15
4 10 16
5 11 17
6 12
7) Review video “Pollution is a global Killer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQYe3ngG6qs&t
- Are you frightened much?

- Now, please, answer the next questions:

1) What year did the Torrey Canyon oil tanker spill
117000 tons of oil:
a) In 1984;
b) In 1967;
c) In 1986.
2) How much of acid rain, caused by pollution, fell in 1972:
a) one second;
b) three quarters.
3) Where did the reactor core release partially radiation into?
a) into the water
b) into surrounding communities
4) What happened in 1986?
a) Explosion at the Soviet Union`s Chernobyl nuclear power plant
b) Release of radiation to the Western Europe from Ukraine.
5) What has been happening since 1990 until now?
a) Release of carbon dioxide into the air from the plants - air pollution;
b) Water pollution or contamination;
c) drop of garbage (trash, rubbish, waste) in the streets.
 ІІІ. ПЕРЕКОНАЙСЯ! ТИ НАВЧИВСЯ!

1.Choose the right answer.

1. The article is about:
a) nature b) emissions into the c) ecological problems
atmosphere

2. What areas is the ecological problem typical for?

a) heavily industrialized b) towns and villages c) only Chernobyl area
cities

3. What is the reason of acid rains?

a) harmful substances b) dust c) climate

4. What makes one third of emissions into the atmosphere?

a) nuclear power stations b) transport c) uncontrolled emissions

5. The great problem of big cities is:

a) water and soil b) wastes c) acid rains

6. Household wastes:
a) remain unruined b) are ruined in tens of c) are ruined in hundreds
years of years

7. A reason of soil poisoning is:

a) all kinds of plastics b) dust pollution c) use of materials which
help products to grow

8. It is necessary to use:
a) purification equipment b) agricultural products c) nuclear energy
and wasteless
technologies

9. Natural sources of energy are:

a) wind and sun b) recycling technologies c) plants and factories

10. Chernobyl disaster showed that:

a) we can use all possible b) nuclear energy can be c) it is necessary to stop
resources extremely dangerous it’s activity
 2. Agree or disagree. Explain your answer.

1. Nature gives us the best things in life.

2. Living in the city is better than living in country.
3. There are many benefits in owning a car.
4. Environment has more effect on the individual than heredity.
5. Civilization brings happiness.
6. Civilization saves us from the cruelty of nature.

3. Complete the scheme.

? ?

? ENVIRONMENT ?

? ?
 ІV. ВИКОНАЙ! У ТЕБЕ ВИЙДЕ!
We sum up the results of our work. Do the test.

1. Define which part of speech the words are

1) Pollution
a) an adverb
b) a pronoun
c) a verb
d) a noun
2) Average
a) an adverb
b) an adjective
c) a verb
d) a noun
3) To protect
a) an adverb
b) a pronoun
c) a verb
d) a noun
2. Mark sentences T (true) if they are correct or F (false) if they are not.
1) Gases produced by cars cause acid rains.
2) Acid rains kill trees and fish
3) Most of the energy we use to heart forests.
3. Match the parts of the sentence.
1) One – tenth of Ukraine’s land area was…
2) The water supply in some areas of the country contains
3) Air pollution is also a great environmental problem.
a) affected by the radiation.
b) in Ukraine.
c) toxic industrial chemicals.
 4. What is the environment?
1) ecology, energy, garbage, paper, waste.
2) animals, plants, air, land, humanity, water.
5. Make present passive sentences using the following prompts.
1) Butter / make / from milk
2) Polo / play / on horses
3) The hotel rooms/ clean / after breakfast
4) Coffee / grow / in Brazil

T. - Thank you for your work and wish you good luck in the matter of solving the
ecological problems in the nearest future.
Together we can save our planet.

Коментар від учителя:

- усне завдання

- прочитай та переклади

- письмове завдання, виконай в зошиті

- подивись відеоролик

- підсумковий тест, виконай в зошиті