Экологические проблемы

OUR PRECIOUS PLANET

What does the word environment mean?

The word environment means simply what is around us. The air we breathe, the soil on which we stand and walk, the water we drink are all part of the environment.

Our planet is in danger!

The most serious environmental problems are:

• pollution in its many forms( water pollution, air pollution, nuclear pollution);
• noise from cars, buses, planes, etc.;
• destruction of wildlife and countryside beauty;
• shortage of natural resources (metals, different kinds of fuel);
• the growth of population.

Our precious planet

Rainforest

Pollution

Endangered species

Public transport

Logging company

Wildlife

Acid rain

Recycling

Find the definitions

Rainforest

Pollution

Public transport

animals and plants in natural conditions

Endangered species

animals and plants that can soon disappear

companies cutting down woods

Logging company

the process of making air, water and land dirty and not suitable to use

Wildlife

buses and trains for everyone to use

a tropical forest growing in an area where it rains a lot

Listen to three facts and say which of them are true:

a. Every day in Britain enough rubbish is produced to fill Trafalgar Square up to the top of Nelson Column.

b. Every minute people are destroying about 100 acres of rainforests which is equal to fifty football pitches.

c. One of the rarest monkeys in the world is golden lion tamarin in Brasil. There are only 200 left in the Brazilians rainforests.

Make sentences about rainforests, use Passive Voice:

• thousands of square kilometers of rainforests – destroy – every year
• 6,000 trees – cut down – every hour
• wood – sell – countries
• rainforests – burn – by farmers
• animals – kill – by the fires
• many kinds of animals and plants – lose – when the rainforests disappear
• some medicines – make from – rainforests plants
• weather – change – by the distraction of the rainforests

Our precious planet

Listen to children from Kenya, Brasil and Italy, speaking about environmental problems. Complete the table: put down the problem, what it causes and possible solution of the problem.

Problem

Cause

Cars

Solution

Air pollution

Hunters kill endangered species

Endangered species are disappearing and there will soon be none left

To ban cars and to improve public transport. People should walk more, or use a bike

Logging companies destroy the rainforest

To create special parks for animals

Animals and rare plants die when the trees disappear

To make the logging companies plant new trees

Future is in our hands