Starlight 10 Global warming work with the text

S T O P DESTROYING FORESTS

Recycling

Alternative energy

Hybrid Car

Look at the quiz and try to answer the questions.

• Why is environmental awareness important?

2. What alternative forms of energy do you know?

3. What is the Ozone Layer? Why is it essential?

4. Why is deforestation bad for the environment?

5. How does acid rain produced in one country affect others?

6. What is recycling?

7. Why is a sudden increase in temperature dangerous for life on Earth?

8. What is the Greenhouse Effect? Why is it difficult to stop?

Useful words and set expressions from the text “Global Warming”.

Climate change – changes in the world's weather , in particular the fact that it is believed to be getting warmer as a result of human activity increasing the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Precisely – exactly

Uncertain – not knowing what to do or believe , or not able to decide about something

Average global temperatures – medium world temperatures

Increased – to get bigger or to make something bigger in size or amount

Useful words and set expressions from the text “Global Warming”.

Approximately – close to a particular number or time although not exactly that number or time

Believed average temperatures – approximate medium temperatures

The Northern Hemisphere – the north part of the Earth

Thaw occurs – melting

Repercussions – consequences

Animal species – types of animals

Useful words and set expressions from the text “Global Warming”.

Immediate result – fast result Fighting for survival – to straggle for life

Polar bear population – numbers of polar bears

The reduction in ice – to reduce the quantity of ice

A reduced hunting period – to make the period of hunting shorter

Yearly – from year to year

Food intake - amount of food

Useful words and set expressions from the text “Global Warming”.

Decreased – gone down

Summer fast – period when food is absent

To store an energy – to save the energy

To sustain – to maintain

Seal -

Main source of food - the general recourse to eat

Useful words and set expressions from the text “Global Warming”.

Ice melting – the procedure when the ice melts

Glacier – a large mass of ice that moves very slowly, usually down a slope or valley

Receding – shrinking

Alarming rate – disturbing speeds

Cataclysmic effect - disastrous result

Maternity dens - places where a wild animal gives birth

Useful words and set expressions from the text “Global Warming”.

Collapse – fall down

Heavy rains – a lot of rains

Trap – a dangerous or unpleasant situation that is difficult to escape from

Cub – a young bear, fox, lion

To reduce the emission- to cut up the act of sending gases in atmosphere

Greenhouse gas -

a gas that causes the greenhouse effect, especially carbon dioxide

Useful words and set expressions from the text “Global Warming”.

Pollute the environment – to make the environment dirty

Ice conditions – the condition of the ice cover

Extinction – animals die out