Exercise 1.Choose the statements from the list you most agree with. Explain the reason for your choice.

For me environment protection is:

1. living in harmony with environment.

2. protecting nature and saving life on the planet.

3. encouraging the more prudent and efficient use of energy and other resources.

4. making sure that air and water are clean and safe.

5. controlling over wastes and pollution.

6. protecting species of plants and animal life.

7. preserving life on earth in its full variety.

Exercise 2. Find words and phrases in the texts which mean the same as:

old times _____

all over the world _____

rivers and lakes disappear _____

to issue laws ______

natural life _____

disappearance ____

pure water _____

to catch too much fish _____

fast _____

Exercise 3. Complete the sentences using the texts above.

1. Every year world industry pollutes the atmosphere with about … .

2. The pollution of air and the world's ocean, destruction of the ozone layer is the result of … .

3. Greenpeace is an international ecological organization that … .

4. The common mission of Greenpeace is … .

5. Mankind for a long time believed that … .

6. The British Government is doing its best to work out international solutions … .

7. The growth of the world population means … .

Exercise 4. Read the statements and say whether they are true or false.

1. Every year world industry pollutes the seas and oceans with about 1000 million tons of dust and other harmful substances.

2. New species of animals, birds, fish and plants appear in the world.

3. Greenpeace is an international ecological organization that has 2.8 million supporters worldwide.

4. One country's pollution is every country's problem.

5. The British Government aim is to preserve and enhance Britain's natural and cultural inheritance;

6. Environmental protection is of a separate country concern.

Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into English using the dictionary.

1. Global warming is called the greenhouse effect because the gases make the planet comparable to a greenhouse.

2. Waste production can be cut & many experts say that waste can be reduced by at least one-third using existing technologies and methods.

3. Climate change effects on forests and productivity and changes in the geographic range of certain tree species.

4. Water pollution disrupts the natural food chain.

5. The ozone layer protects the Earth from the ultraviolet rays sent down by the sun.

6. Oceans become more and more acidic, and this can totally disrupt the functioning of the marine food web.

7. According to the latest researches polar bears and tigers are the ones most affected by climate change.

Exercise 6. Answer the questions.

1. What does the word “ecology” mean?

2. Is over-population dangerous for our planet?

3. What are the main ecological problems?

4. Could you state the consequences of pollution?

5. What is ozone disbalance? What causes it?

6. What are the effects of acid rains?

7. What can be solutions to environmental problems?

8. Which animals are most vulnerable to climate change?

9. How can people save animals from going extinct?

10. What do you do to save our planet?

Тема 12: Выдающиеся люди страны изучаемого языка.

Text A

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

1564 – 1616

England’s greatest poet and dramatist, William Shakespeare, was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 in the family of a glove-maker, and his mother was the daughter of a farmer. William went to a grammar school in Stratford and had quite a good education. There he learned to love reading. He was not yet 19 when he married Anne Hathaway, a farmer’s daughter some years older than himself. They had three children – Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet. Judith and Hamnet were twins.

Not much is known about what Shakespeare did in the years just after his marriage. Some accounts say that he taught at school for a while. Some accounts say that he worked for his father. In 1587 Shakespeare went to work in London, leaving Anne and the children at home. He appeared in London as an actor and a writer of plays. His plays were written in poetry.

In1592 bubonic plague, a terrible disease swept over London. For about two years all London theatres were closed. During that time Shakespeare began to write poems. Besides writing some long poems, he wrote more than 100 sonnets.

Shakespeare wrote some of his plays about early kings of England. Henry V and Richard III are two of these plays. They helped the English people to understand the history of their own plays. Besides historical plays Shakespeare wrote both comedies and tragedies. Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous of his tragedies. Other tragedies are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello. Among his comedies are A Midsummer Night Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice.

At the height of his success Shakespeare retuned to Stratford. There he died in 1616. He was buried in Stratford-upon-Avon. Thousands of people visit his birthplace and grave each year.

Vocabulary

To earn - зарабатывать

To act - играть

To get married – жениться, выйти замуж

Gloves - перчатки

A play - пьеса

A merchant – купец

Accounts - счета

A birthplace – место рождения

A grave - могила

A disease - болезнь

Twins - близнецы