Make up about 5-10 questions according to the text and discuss the questions in pairs.

Reading Activities

Read the short conversation about environmental problems. Choose the appropriate words from the box to make sentences. Extend these dialogue adding your own ideas, situations and perform them in pairs.

A: What environment issue that you concerned about?

B: I concerned about our 1______________.

A: Why you concerned that?

B: We become more worse in 2________our environment, that make me worry.

A: And what can we do about it?

B: I think we must take the immediate action, before to late.

A: Yes! we must hurry but what action we want to do first?

B: Firstly we must 3________ using plastic bag and we reuse again all the paper, plastic or bottle.

A: Yes! I agree with you, because 4__________ if we burn it, it will made such 5_________ that can thinner our atmosphere, and it was difficult to dispose.

B:Yeah! but we must take other action.

A: I think the other action, we take a we try to buy the refrigerator that not contains 6 _________that can thinner our atmosphere. Not just that we also must reduce using the 7___________, because it make soil become not more arable.

A:Yes! But the company that made the refrigerator hopelly will caring about our environment, with all the refrigerator not contains CFC gas or they reduce the contains.

B: Yes. Hopelly, we as the human must caring to our environment, then we can 8______our stuff. It can reduce all the the rubbish that we thrown before this.

 

Environment pollution polluted reduce the plastic bag -a toxic gas -CFC gas - herbicide -recycling

Post-Reading Activities

Make up sentences using the words in the box.

Discuss in small groups following questions

· Which of the following natural disasters do you think is the most frightening: earthquake, forest fire, volcanic eruption, hurricane, tornado, flood? Why?

· What natural disasters have you (or someone you know) experienced? Tell about what happened.

· What's the worst natural disaster your country has ever experienced? What happened? How much damage did it cause? How did the community respond?

· Do you know how the following natural disasters are caused: tsunami, drought, tornado, forest fire?

· Would you rather live in a climate that is very hot or very cold? What natural disaster risks would you encounter in each?

· How has the weather changed during your lifetime? For example, do you think it's gotten more extreme?

 

Organizing a debate

You were divided into three groups. They are: ecologists, biologists and citizens.

Now we are going to have a debate on the question of do humankind live in harmony with the environment?

What is the impact of people in modern world to the flora and fauna? (Negative/Positive)

First, the group of ecologists will present some arguments about these problems, and other groups should start the debating, by joining in or interrupting, if necessary.

1. Write a report about 180-250 words on the theme “ The human factor in environmental pollution”