5.Reading
Teacher: It's high time to read the text for gist and say what are the most burning problems of the ecology today.
Environmental protection is the most burning problem of today. The ecological problems influence the climate on the Earth. Mankind long believed that whatever we did the Earth would remind much the same. Nature is under thread. Our country’s problem pollution can be every country’s problem. So we all need to work together to safeguard our environment.
Air pollution is a very serious problem. Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substances. They are the main reason for the greenhouse effect and acid rains. Pollution of air and world oceans, destruction of ozone layer is the result of man’s careless interaction with nature – a sign of the ecological crises.
Chemicals change lakes, rivers as well as forests. Acid water kills the plants and animals that usually live in water. Acid rain makes the earth more acidic and some kind of trees can’t live in the soil that’s very acidic. Forests are disappearing and this brakes the oxygen balance.
Water pollution occurs mostly when people overload the water environment, such as streams, lakes, underground water, basins and seas with waste substances harmful to living being.
Nuclear weapon is also cause of the pollution. It brings a great damage to the agriculture, forests and people’s health.
The greenhouse effect and global warming both correspond with each other. The greenhouse effect is recalled as a solar radiation that passes through the earth atmosphere but prevents too much of the effect radiation from escaping into out of space. It causes the overheat of the air. As a result we have the global warming effect. People are being to realize that environmental problems are not somebody else’s. In many countries environmental protection agencies and research centers are up. Such organization as Greenpeace cares for ecology in countries. Its main goal is to combine the people’s efforts for peace with the huge and every mounting movement launches all kinds of environmental actions. People begin to realize that environmental problems are really the problems of mankind. In many countries environmental protection agencies are up. Such organization as “Green Peace” cares for ecology in countries.
Teacher: Now read the text again for detail. But at first look through the statements 1-While reading, decide if each statement is true (T) or false (F) according to the information you read.
Nature is under thread. (t)
Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substances. They are the main reason for the greenhouse effect and acid rains. (t)
Acid water is good for the plants and animals. (f) = Acid water kills the plants and animals.
Water pollution is not a very serious problem. (f)= Water pollution is a very serious problem.
Greenpeace cares for ecology in the country. (t)
Pair work
Teacher: And I’d like you to work in pares. I’ll give you separate shits of paper. Here you can see the main ecological problems. Your task is to discuss and fill in the main reasons and effects of the main problems on our environment. Use the words given below.
Fill in the chart using the words from the box and talk to your partner on the problem:
‘Causes and effects of the environmental problems”
