Listen to three people taking part in a survey about recycling. Mark statements as Yes (Ö) or No (c).

10. Listen to three people taking part in a survey about recycling. Mark statements as Yes (Ö) or No (c).

 

We recycle most of our household waste

 

 

 

Recycling is too expensive and time consuming

 

 

 

 

11. Listen again and answer the following questions.

1. How many people are interviewed?

2. Is a woman concerned with recycling?

3. Does a man recycle only paper?

4. Does a girl recycle just everything at home?

5. Do you agree that a lot of recycled products are good for the environmental protection?

6. Do you think that recycling saves a lot of energy?

7. Do you recycle products at home?

SPEAKING

12. Work in groups. Imagine that you are going to have a videoconference devoted to the problems of the environmental protection with scientists from another country. Make up a list of questions to ask them. Decide what to show and tell them about the environmental protection in our country.

13. You are going to talk about different ways of environmental protection at the symposium "What can we do to save our planet for future generations?" Use information from the text to prepare for the report.

WRITING

14. Imagine that you are an active member of the “Green Peace organization”. Make a list of DOS and DON’TS for people to protect the environment and to save disappearing species of animals and plants. Write 60 – 80 words. Use these phrases.

- On the one hand …

- On the other hand …

- In any case …

- Actually …

- By the way …

- Anyway …

 

GRAMMAR IN USE

These tasks can help you to practise The Past Perfect Tense (See Appendix 1 p. 224) and do the following exercises.

15. Fill in the table with the forms of the following verbs:

to roll, to remove, to break, to heat, to twist, to bend, to pollute, to develop, to buy, to solve, to throw, to bring, to leave, to conduct, to build, to clean

Example: to draw