Focus on Words

6. There floods recently in the African countries such as Mozambique, and last year it
was to Mexico. Next time, it could be a European city like Venice or Athens that
will suffer.
7. The sad thing is that floods needn’t to be disastrous.
8. The damage they do is because of we are not prepared.
7. Read the text and find the correct question for each paragraph.
There are five billion people on the planet. They live on the snow and ice of the
Poles 1 in the jungles and deserts. They have climbed the highest mountains and walked
on the sea bed. The man visited space and even walked on the moon.
There is one thing above all that makes people and animals different. We can talk.
Many of us love to talk and even more than that, we can write what we say and think in
writing thus communicating through time. The man has a sense of past and future, not
just present.
Of all animals the man is the most powerful. In many ways animals can do things
better than man. Dogs can smell and hear better, cats can see in the dark, birds can fly
thousands of miles away and find their way back. But we are different. No other animal
plays football, tells jokes, builds cathedrals, writes music... We are the only species
that can change the world. We are the only species that can choose either to look after
the world or destroy it.To improve his life man has often changed the surrounding
world. But his activities become more and more destructive. The earth and the air,
rivers and seas are damaged by man’s activities.
High above the earth there is a thin ozone layer which protects the earth from the
sun’s ultra-violet rays. Today this layer is damaged by chemicals used by us. The
thinning of the layer is very dangerous for animals, plants and human beings.
Billion years ago life began in the oceans. They cover more than 70 % of the earth
surface. But we know so little about it. The pollution of water is very harmful for the
oceans because the oil and the waste thrown into water change their ecology. If oceans
suffer so much from pollution, you can imagine what happens to seas, rivers and lakes.
Industrial wastes have already made many of them lifeless.
Project Work
1. Do you feel responsible for what is going on in
Armenia?
2. Can you give examples of violations of ecology?
3. Have you ever been to Khosrov forest reserve? Do
you know anything about its history?
4. What disappearing species do you know in
Armenia?
5. Is the climate changing in Armenia?
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