Gateway to the world B1 (Unit 6) "Vocabulary in context"

Choose the correct answers.

1. We spent the day on the       [beach, cave] sunbathing.

2. You can ski all the way down from the top of the          [lake, mountain] to the village.

3. Nothing grows in the        [coast, desert] because there is never any rain.

4. We got tickets for a London boat tour and sailed down the        [forest, river].

5. How long does it take to travel from America to Asia across the Pacific       [Ocean, Sea]?

Write the words of the geographical features that match the definitions.

a very slowly moving, frozen river of ice

the area between two hills or mountains

a place where a river falls off a cliff

a large natural hole underground or in the side of a hill

a small river

Complete each pair of sentences with the same word. (Verbs connected with the environment)

If you leave a window open with the heating on, you _____ a lot of energy.

Don’t _____ your time arguing with Jose – he’ll never listen.

You can’t re-use these face masks – you have to _____ them away.

My dog loves it when I _____ his ball and he runs after it and brings it back.

You can _____ energy by turning off the TV at night.

One way I _____ time is by doing my homework on the bus.

If we _____ carbon emissions by 50%, air quality will improve.

We’re not selling much in our shop – maybe we should _____ our prices.

You can use these bags three or four times, and then you can _____ them.

This is where we _____ broken glass and old jars and make new bottles.

Choose the best answer.

At home we’ve just got something called a ‘smart meter’, and it tells you exactly how much electricity you are using. I think the idea is that you 1         [save, charge, consume] less if you have one, but it does make life a bit more difficult. My dad keeps turning off all the lights saying we are 2           [throwing, wasting, recycling] electricity, but it’s very hard to do your homework in the dark! Mum’s the same – she thinks we can 3         [consume, reduce, save] our heating bill if we all wear lots of warm clothes, which is probably true but is a bit annoying. Still, I am trying to teach them about the importance of 4           [recycling, reusing, reducing], but they aren’t very interested. I explain that you put glass in the glass bin, paper in the paper bin and plastic in the plastic bin, but they often just 5       [throw, waste, reuse] everything away into the main bin without thinking.

Complete the sentences with a word from A and a word from B. There is one word in A and B you do not need.

1. The problem of                means the whole world is getting hotter every year.

2. The government should spend more on                  like wind and solar power.

3. Could changing to electric cars help us to reduce our                  ?

4. If we keep burning              like coal, air quality will only get worse.

5. Communities living on the coast will be particularly affected by any rise in           .