- •Contents
- •Ecology. Introduction.
- •I. The terms “environmrnt, ecology, ecosystem”
- •1. Enrich your vocabulary:
- •2. Read and translate the text :
- •2. My future profession is an ecologist
- •1.2. Read the text and translate it into Russian:
- •3 Join the words to combination and enumerate environmental problems.
- •2.3 Join the words to combination and enumerate environmental problems.
- •2.4 Explain the meaning of the following:
- •2.6 Аrе you аn environmentally-minded person?
- •2.7 Retell the text.
- •2.1 Answer the following questions.
- •2.2 Fill in the table and translate.
- •3. Risk Assessment
- •1. Vocabulary
- •2. Read and translate the text:
- •Unit I ecological problems. Pollution
- •What is pollution?
- •1.Vocabulary
- •2. Read the text:
- •Read the text and study the vocabulary.
- •Write the summary of the text in English and try to retell it.
- •Natural Resources and Environment.
- •2. Read the text
- •4.Ecological problems across the globe
- •Unit II. Air pollution
- •1.Warm up.
- •1.1Read and learn the following new words.
- •1.2 Read the text and translate it into Russian
- •The usa law on clean air - the "arcane" for pollution
- •Sources of air pollution
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 4. Acid Rain.
- •Read the text and study the vocabulary.
- •Complete the sentences and translate them:
- •Find in the text the sentences describing the following problems, translate them and retell the text in English:
- •4. Do you know anything about acid rains? Study the scheme:
- •Unit III water pollution
- •1.Warm up.
- •1.1Read and learn the following new words
- •2 Read the text and translate it into Russian
- •2.1 Answer the following questions
- •2.2 Match these words from the text with their meanings:
- •2.3Complete the following sentences.
- •2.4 Agree or disagree with the statements below. Begin your sentence with one of the following :
- •2.5 Retell the text using the scheme:
- •3.Read the text. Pay attention to the words after the text:
- •Sea or Sewer?
- •3.1. Translate the following words into Russian and analyze the parts of speech:
- •3.2. Give derivatives of the following verbs and translate them:
- •Comprehension
- •1. Paraphrase the italicized words and word-combinations:
- •2. Pick out from the text sentences or parts of sentences showing:
- •3. Translate into English:
- •4. Retell the text using the plan below:
- •Dioxides launch а new attack on our nature
- •Ecology of the Caspian Sea region - the last line of defense before the beginning of the " big" oil
- •Unit IV. Chemicals in the environment
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 2 Hazards and chemical fertilizers
- •Unit V radioactivity
- •Vocabulary:
- •The burial of radioactive wastes
- •Text 2 Norway fury at uk nuclear waste floods
- •Chernobyl’s deadly legacy
- •1. The accident
- •2. Lingering effects
- •3. Environmental effects
- •I. Highlight the following words and in the article and provide their definitions:
- •II. Explain the meaning of the following words and word-combinations:
- •III. Make a list of:
- •I. Answer the following questions:
- •II. Choose the correct definition for each word:
- •I. Work in pairs to discuss:
- •II. Make up a list of actions one should undertake in case such an accident occurs. Text 4
- •The time "cures", but there is no safe spot
- •Unit VI. Overpopulation
- •2. Read and translate the text:
- •1. Join these split sentences and translate them:
- •2. Complete these word combinations with verbs used in the text:
- •3. Write questions to these answers:
- •4.Translate into English:
- •Unit VII. Noise pollution
- •2.2 What other sources of the noise pollution do you know ?
- •2.3 Complete the following sentences:
- •Unit VIII rubbish live life, do not waste it.
- •1.Read and learn the following new words:
- •2. Read the text and translate it into Russian
- •2.2 Complete the following sentences.
- •2.3 Agree or disagree with the statements below. Begin your sentence with one of the following:
- •2.4 Match the synonyms:
- •2.Тне throw-away society
- •1. Warm up.
- •1.1Read and learn the following new words:
- •1.2 Read the text and translate it into Russian.
- •2.6 Agree or disagree with the statements below. Begin your sentence with one of the following:
- •2.7 Join these split sentences and translate them.
- •3.Тне green answers
- •2.5 Complete the following sentences.
- •2.6 Resume the text, using the following expression:
- •4.Incineration
- •W aste
- •Incineration recycling reuse decomposition
- •1.Read and learn the following new words:
- •2. Read the text and translate it into Russian
- •2.5 Agree or disagree with the statements below. Begin your sentence with one of the following:
- •2.6 Join the words to combinations used in the text. Use them in the sentences.
- •Unit IX
- •Indoor pollution
- •1.Don’t miss your chance to enrich your vocabulary.
- •1.1.Read and learn the following new words:
- •2. Read and translate the text
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Find in the text sentences containing the words:
- •3. Translate into English:
- •5. Using the information from the text, try to make up a short report.
- •Unit X wildlife and animals protection warm up
- •1. Huge wildlife rescue operation launched
- •2.Read and translate the text:
- •Word study
- •Explain what the following proper names mean:
- •Match the names of species and their habitats:
- •Make up a list of phrases used in the text to say:
- •Answer the question:
- •Discuss in small groups:
- •What species are threatened with extinction in other parts of the world?
- •3. The last thousand polar bears.
- •4. The tropical forests
- •Ecological problems should be solved together
- •The chips are down for fast-food wrappers
- •1. Don’t miss your chance to enrich your vocabulary:
- •2. Read and translate the text:
- •3. Find words in the text that mean:
- •4. Underline these things in the text:
- •5. Choose the right variant:
- •6.Talk to your partner.
- •A first step in solving the planet’s pollution problems.
- •1. Don't miss your chance to enrich your vocabulary:
- •2. Read the text and translate it into Russian
- •5. Friends of the earth
- •Organisation
- •I. Discuss with a partner/partners (make up dialogues):
- •You are members of Friends of the Earth. Organize a campaign the purpose of which make more people environmental-minded.
- •7. Environmental protection - nationwide concern
- •I. Use the dictionary to check the pronunciation of the following words:
- •IV. Match the words from the first column with the words from the second one:
- •V. Write the correct combination of the verb and the particle. Insert particles and prepositions where necessary.
- •I. Explain the meaning of the following:
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •How green are you?
- •Interview
- •I: Oh, good!
- •Test How green are you?
- •Score: one point for every “yes”
- •B) Discuss which of the ways of being “green” listed in the quiz you think are the most important and the most difficult. Give your reasons.
- •Learn to solve problems
- •1. Analyze the scheme. Think about the measures suitable for each kind of pollution:
- •Project: Join our conference
- •Make your reports argumentative and informative. Use additional sources of information such as magazines and newspapers or the Internet. Take photos if possible.
- •Try to conduct a poll among 10 people on your topic. Use the results of the poll in your report at the conference.
- •Design a t-short with a message corresponding to the environmental problems e) Write an essay “ How to make our planet greener?”
- •Unit XII
- •Industrial ecology
- •Industrial Ecology: a Coming of Age Story
- •1. Warm up.
- •1.1Read and learn the following new words:
- •1.1 Read the text and translate it into Russian.
- •2.2 Complete the following sentences:
- •2 .3 Match the synonyms:
- •Fill in the table and translate.
- •2.5 Match the word expressions:
- •Industrial Ecology and the Building Environment
- •2.1 Translate the following word expressions:
- •2.3 Join these split sentences and translate them:
- •2.4 Resume the sentences from the text:
- •2) Provision of....
- •3) Description of...
- •2) Offering of… texts for supplementary reading
- •1. Degradation of the ozone layer
- •2.Oil and Fish(1)
- •3. Oil and Fish (2)
- •4. How weeds clean water
- •5. Clean water – can it be clean entirely?
- •6.The radioactive wastes of the mining industry
- •7. How to Make Man Environment-Conscious?
- •8.The Netherlands
- •9.Cleaning up Canada
- •10. Mllitary space installation’s pollution
- •11. The Ecological problems in the Galapagos Islands(Equador)
- •5.Scandinavia
- •6.Underground waters in Kazakhstan
- •Check yourself
- •3.Complete the text using the modal verbs from the box: How to be a friend of Earth.
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense form. Some of the verbs should be in the active and some in the passive. Animals on the road
- •1.Fill in the missing information about the problem or its description or give definitions to some words:
- •2. Which word is correct?
- •3.Read the text and decide which answer a, b, c or d best fits each space: The doomed planet
- •4. Fill in the blanks in the text using a word given above the text:
- •Save it!
- •1. Ecological nouns
- •Study the word-building chart. Use different suffixes to form “ecological “ nouns from the verbs in the left column.
- •Now complete these sentences using appropriate forms of the nouns in ex. 1a
2.Oil and Fish(1)
The Far Eastern and North Pacific shelves, with their severe climatic conditions present the great risk of contingencies with the worst of imaginable consequences. We should pay our attention to the latent anomalies existing in the region. For instance, in the locations of prospecting drills, changes in the marine ecosystem were observed resulting from mineral mixture released in the sea water. Another group of adverse factors: alienation of fishing areas, laying of pipelines without flushing with the sea bottom, covering of the sealed wells openings with special armature (4.5 m high, 3-4 sq. m), dumping of drilling platform debris, anchors, wires, tractors, etc. on sea bottom.
This given concept considers allocation of protected zones where oil prospecting and drilling will be prohibited under all conditions, as well as zones requiring additional environmental studies and limitations to avoid negative consequences. For the purposes of legal support, it will be necessary to alter the existing decision-making procedures for oil and gas prospecting on the marine shelf, which no longer comply with the environmental protection requirements.
At the same time, we should not exaggerate the risks of oil and gas prospecting projects. Thus, for instance. according to American scientists, oil drilling does not present too much danger. Risk of pollution resulting from an oil spill at а drilling site is а mere 2%, while that resulting from transportation reaches 50%.
Sea water dissolves about 5% of oil products, or even more. Released in sea water, the oil undergoes physical, chemical and biochemical changes. The volatile components, making from 20% to 50% of the crude oil, evaporate very intensively at the very beginning, than less so throughout the whole period of their presence in the sea water. Generally, the crude oil releases about 50% of its components into the atmosphere. Due to the evaporation. Very active is self-removal of the light gasoline and kerosene fractions, diesel fuel and other low-molecular compounds. However, this cannot be considered as self- purification of the sea environment, as it was thought sometimes.
3. Oil and Fish (2)
The Sea of Okhotsk is exclusively productive in terms of marine resources, which is а very important factor for local fishing industry. Any oil and gas extraction projects, with concurrent transportation and construction developments will have an irrevocable negative consequences, unless necessary preventive measures are taken to protect the environment. Any oil and gas prospecting schedules should evaluate, in the first place, the possible impact on the ecosystems of the shelf.
Any such projects will undoubtedly take effect on the environment, this way or the other. Therefore our objective will be to evaluate not only the potential pluses of the projects, but the negative consequences. The gist of the problem is that potential oil and gas bearing areas coincide with the areas of active fisheries and habitats of the most valuable fish species and endangered sea mammals. Therefore, on the initial stage it would make the best sense to pinpoint the areas where such projects would be prohibited under all conditions (е.g.: natural reserves); areas, where the works would be permitted if only certain conditions were met (е.g.: seasonal works); and finally, the areas where the works would be possible without limitations.
During seismic surveys, explosions (drastic changes of pressure) create conditions for lethal impact on hydrobionts, especially on the early stages of their development. During drilling works, each stationary oil-rig on the shelf becomes а source of multi-component and continuous pollution, including: drilling solutions. ground waters, hard particles, drilling wastes with high content of oil products, barite. lubricants, heavy metals, radionuclides, emulsifiers, biocides, and other toxins. Average daily waste output of one stationary oil-rig off Sakhalin East Coast, based on materials of an oil field development project, may approximate 60,000 cubic meters of drilling solution, 15,000 cubic meters of hard particles, and 640 cubic meters of ground waters spreading for 3 to 12 kilometers around the drilling site.