2. Listen and fill in the gaps:

We _____________________ damage to our planet that it will soon affect the global economy. This bleak warning _____________________ United Nations report called the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO). The paper says there are many important ecosystems on our planet that are in danger. These “tipping points” in our natural world are where _____________________ on nature will start costing national economies. Examples of these are the deaths of coral reefs, _____________________ areas of forest, or major pollution of rivers. UN spokesman Ahmed Djoglaf said: "The news is not good. We _____________________ at a rate never before seen in history - extinction rates may be up to 1,000 times higher _____________________."

Scientists are worried that governments will not do _____________________ the damage to the tipping points. World leaders will soon meet in Nairobi to discuss _____________________ global biodiversity loss. They hope they can then create an international framework that will be adopted at a convention _____________________ in October in Japan. The GBO report outlines how serious the threat is. It says huge numbers _____________________ extinction if we continue to pollute the environment. Over a quarter of corals may soon disappear. This will have a _____________________ marine life and many fish species will also disappear. Countries will be fighting over much smaller stocks of fish. This problem will be made worse with the _____________________ the world’s rivers.

5. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article;

1.	causing	a.	gloomy
2	bleak	b.	coming up against
3.	impact	c.	cut
4.	huge	d.	supplies
5.	extinction	e.	effect
6.	reduce	f.	chosen
7.	tackle	g.	dying out
8.	adopted	h.	address
9.	facing	i.	creating
10.	stocks	j.	enormous

6. PHRASE MATCH:  (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

1.	We are causing so much	a.	global biodiversity loss
2	This bleak	b.	impact on nature
3.	there are many important	c.	seen in history
4.	man’s negative	d.	facing extinction
5.	a rate never before	e.	damage to our planet
6.	do enough to try to	f.	on biological diversity
7.	discuss measures to tackle	g.	reduce the damage
8.	adopted at a convention	h.	warning
9.	huge numbers of species are	i.	made worse
10.	This problem will be	j.	ecosystems on our planet