Name: __________________
Mark:
Date: _____/ _____ / ______
Teacher:
1-Use the words in the box to complete this newspaper article about an environmental problem:
blood mixture
chemicals holidays pesticides
spray agricultural
CHEMICALS MAKE BLOOD-RED SEA
The valley of the river Po in Northern Northern Italy is an important important ………………………..area. The farmers in this region produce a lot of very good food but they use a lot of …………………….. to help them. They …………………….the …………………….the fields with ………………………. ………………………. and chemicals to feed and protect the crops. Unfortunately , when it rains, a lot of these chemicals are washed away from the earth into streams and eventually into the River Po. This river carries the chemicals into the Adriatic Sea. In 1989, parts of the Adriatic sea became as red as ………………..: an algae, a type of sea weed, was growing in the rich ………………………..of ………………………..of chemicals in the water. Tourists didn’t want to swim in the red water and cancelled their ……………………….. .
2-Complete the text below by inserting the words/ phrases in the box:
Pesticides Exhaust fumes Dangerous
Rush hour Wind Wind Polluting Power stations Traffic jams
Food chain Chemicals
Every day during the ______________________you can see cars stuck in ________________sending ________________sending their ______________________ ______________________ up into the atmosphere, atmosphere, _____________________our environment. environment. It is not only in town that the quality of life is being threatened. Although farmers say they have to spray _____________
on their crops, some experts believe that these ___________________could get into the _______________, which will result in a dramatic increase in the number of people affected by cancer and various allergies. Potentially the most _________________ threat to the environment is nuclear waste from _____________. By developing alternative sources of energy, such as _________________and wave power , we can make our world much safer to live in.
3-Complete the text below by inserting the words in the box:
Recycling Dumping Waste
Toxic Dirty Poisons Smoke Chimney
The main reason for pollution is ________________-- something which is no longer needed. Waste can be many things: it can be yesterday’s newspaper, an old car, your _____________bath water, or _____________ from a factory ________________. Some waste is dangerous, because it contains ____________________.This kind of waste is called __________________ waste and it is worrying many governments today. If you want to do something better than _________________, you can change waste into something different. You can sort your waste so that paper, metal
and
clothes,
_____________________ .
for
example,
can
be
sold
to
dealers
for
4-Complete the text below by inserting the words/ phrases in the box:
Cut down Droughts Rubbish (2x) Rainforests Plastic Land
Soil Species
Tropical _________________ in South America and in Africa are being cleared away for _________________ and to use the ________________ for farming. In the last 30 years , more than 80% of Africa’s Ivory Coast rainforest has been ____________________. But the loss of trees is leading to ____________erosion, mud slides and _________________. Many plants and animals no longer have a home and 48 ____________of plants and animals are wiped out every day. Another great threat to animals is __________________as many animals are strangled or choke on ____________________ bags, since plastic is not biodegradable.
5-Complete the text below by inserting the words
pollution
problem
distribution
food forests
feed
degradation
in the box:
agricultural
Less food, more people
A world Bank report warns that ………………………………….practices are destroying our ability to produce ………………… in the future. The ………………………………… of soil, the …………………… of water resulting from farming and the destruction of …………………………. are endangering future food supplies. ( … ) Solutions to the …………………………. include better ……………………………… of the food we produce, integrated farming –that is sustainable and environmentally-friendly – and bio-engineering. By 2020 there will be another one-and-a-half million people to ………………in the world( … )
6-Complete the text below by inserting the words
in the box:
produce save buy recycle waste throw away too afterwards rubbish products factories plates handkerchiefs tins people aluminium
In the wealthy …………………..of the world people……………………….a lot. They ……………a lot of unnecessary things and often ………………………good food. In order to make everyday life simpler, we ……………………….millions of
things
like
paper……………………..
and
throw
away
cups
and
………………………….. In the USA you can buy special TV dinners, which the ………………….have packed in …………………………containers. No washingup: you simply throw the container away …………………………. . Think how many materials we could …………………..if we didn’t manufacture these ……………………… .We might save a lot in other ways, …………….. .If people sorted their ………………………, for example, and kept separate dustbins for paper, glass, ……………..and left-over food. Then we would be able to use a lot of things again – or …………………………them.
Solutions:
Mixture—fog—smog—power—chimneys—problem—clouds—water—rain— forests
Rush hour—traffic jams—exhaust fumes—polluting—pesticides—chemicals —food chain—dangerous— power stations—wind Waste—dirty—smoke—chimney—poisons—toxic—dumping—recycling Rainforests—soil—cut down—soil—droughts—species—rubbish—plastic Agricultural—food—degradation—pollution—forests—problem—distribution —feed
People—waste—buy—throw away—produce—handkerchiefs—plates— factories—aluminium—afterwards—save—products—too—rubbish—tins— recycle
