| School at Kazakh-American University Hand-out Practical Number of credits: 2 Academic year 2019-2020 Subject: Our environment Tutor: Sabirdinova S.A. Level: Intermediate Group: 8B2/8B3 |
Abstract
1) Why have many species of birds and animals disappeared?
2) What is air polluted by?
3) Are rivers polluted?
4) Why are forests disappearing all over the word?
5) People are in danger, aren’t they?
6) What are the most serious environmental problems now?
Exercise 1. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words from the box:
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waste paper, bins, be recycled, pollute them with chemical waste, are buried, is prohibited
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1. Millions of tons of rubbish ____________in Kazakhstan every year.
2. A lot of new books, magazines can be made from_________________________.
3. It ___________________________ to throw away litter in the streets.
4. Many things which we throw away can be_________________________.
5. Sometimes fish die out in rivers because plants and factories____________________________________.
6. Everybody should put litter in________and to keep the country tidy.
Exercise 2.
ENVIRONMENT
Exercise 3. Say if in your opinion it is important to be a member of some ecological organization. Mention the following:
It is important to help wild birds and animals to survive.
It is necessary to protect wild life on the planet.
It is important to make the population of endangered species larger.
It is necessary to stop people who kill endangered birds and animals.
It is important to protect animals’ habitats.
It is much easier to do these things if you belong to some organization.
Exercise 4. Prepare a talk on the topic “Our Environment”. In your talk, mention the following:
how clean and safe the place where you live is
if there is any danger of air, water or nuclear pollution there
if the place where you live is rich in birds and animals
what is in your opinion should be done to make your environment better
Exercise5. Read the text and match its paragraphs with the titles. There are 6 titles but only 5 paragraphs. One title is extra.
Land without Trees
No Air to Breathe
Dangerous Waters
Toxic Food
Problems Important for Everyone
No food for Animals
The word environment means what is around us. People who live in big industrial centers, cities and towns live in a town environment. For others their environment is the countryside. Everybody who lives in towns or in the country breathes air, drinks water, and uses soil, which should be clean. But are they really clean?
The water in the oceans, seas and rivers has become polluted in many places. If people drink this water, they can get ill or even die. People use oceans and seas as big dump and pour industrial and domestic waste into them. And so fish become toxic. It is very dangerous for people to eat such fish. Water birds leave places with toxic water. A lot of trees on the coast die, too.
The food we eat is not always healthy as fruit and vegetables can grow on polluted soil and become dangerous too. The meat we get from sheep and cows can be bad for our health if these sheep and cows eat grass that grows on polluted land.
People cut down trees and many birds and animals can’t leave home in their usual places and they begin dying out. If the situation doesn’t change, soon we shall live in a very different world — a world without a number of species that we know now.
Nowadays people feel that it is more difficult to breathe: in big cities the air has become badly polluted. Most of the pollution comes from cars and buses. Old people and little children feel bad and get ill because of the polluted air.
Glossary
| English | Kazakh | Russian |
| species [ ˈspiːʃiːz ] | түрлері | виды |
| waste [ weɪst ] | қоқыс | отходы |
| prohibit [ prəˈhɪbɪt ] | тыйым салу | запрещать |
| survive [ səˈvaɪv ] | аман қалу | выживать |
| endangered [ ɪnˈdeɪndʒəd ] | жойылып бара жатқан | исчезающий |
| habitat [ ˈhæbɪtæt ] | тіршілік ортасы | среда обитания |
| dump [ dʌmp ] | қоқыс орны | свалка |
| soil [ sɔɪl ] | жер | почва |
| belong [ bɪˈlɒŋ ] | тиесілі болу | принадлежать |
| nuclear [ ˈnjuːkliə(r) ] | радиоактивті | радиоактивный |
| Home task |
References
Main literature:
Английский язык» Кузнецова Т.Д., Козлов П.Г. Алматы, Мектеп 2016
Additional literature:
Essential grammar. R.Murphy. Second edition. Intermediate level. Cambridge University Press. 2013
