Environmental Problems

Fill in the gaps with the words: choose, water clean, stay strong and clean, reuse

Reduce, recycle and 1______,

Be careful with the things you 2______.

Don’t leave lights and water on,

Pick up litter when you’ve done.

Keep the air and 3______,

Help our Earth 4_______.

Match to make word combinations. Use them to compose your own sentences. (4 sentences)

1. public a) jams

2. fossil b) pollution

3. traffic c) fuels

4. reduce d) transport

5. weather e) problem

6. serious f) forecast

7. endangered g) rain

8. acid h) of new technologies

9. development i) species

Fill in the gaps with the words:

pollute, reduce, problems, environmental, activities, soil, scientists

People 1_ their surroundings in various other ways. For example, they ruin natural beauty by scattering junk and litter on the land and in the water. They operate machines and motor vehicles that fill the air with disturbing noise. Nearly everyone causes 2__ pollution in some way or the other.

Thus, to end or greatly 3___ pollution immediately people would have to stop using many things that benefit them. Most people do not want to do that, of course. But pollution can be gradually reduced in several ways. 4_____ and engineers can work to find methods to lessen the amount of pollution that such things as automobiles and factories cause.

Governments can pass and enforce laws that require businesses and individuals to stop, or cut down on, certain polluting 5______. And, perhaps most importantly, individuals and groups of people can work to persuade their representatives in government, and also businesses, to take action towards reducing pollution.

Environmental pollution is one of the most serious 6____ facing humanity today. Air, water and 7___ — all harmed by pollution — are necessary to the survival of all living things.

Read some information from an Internet page and answer the questions.

• When did it happen?

• Why is an avalanche so dangerous?

• How did the people turn out in the mountains?

• Where were the people from?

• How many people die?

Avalanche danger

July 25, 2009

An avalanche is a huge snow slide. It can kill skiers or climbers who are buried in this snow slide.

The latest cold weather brought snow to mountains and other high places. Strong winds pushed much more snow onto some places and this could slide down the mountain easily.

A group of skiers in Canterbury, on the mountains near Christchurch, were caught in an avalanche yesterday and one skier died. They were heli skiing which means a helicopter dropped them onto the mountain. They were all experienced in this kind of skiing and had two guides with them.

When the avalanche started, one man was caught by snow up to his waist so others had to dig him out. Another two men were buried. Guides managed to dig them out quite quickly, in about seven or eight minutes, but one was dead. The other one needed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation at first. He said later that all he could move was his tongue so he used his tongue to clear the snow from his nose so that he could breathe. All these men caught in the avalanche were Australian tourists.