Презентація до уроку з англійської мови для 10 класу на тему: "Ecological pollution of Ukraine"

The project is connected with such subjects as: - ecology pollution; - protection of nature in Ukraine. Is Ukraine’s landscape polluted?  

THIS FRAGILE PLANET The word environment means simply what is around us. Some people live in a town environment; for others, their environment is the countryside. But the air we breathe, the soil on which we stand and walk, the water we drink are all part of the environment. Nowadays people understand how important it is to solve the environmental problems that endanger people’s lives. The most serious environmental problems are: pollution in its many forms (water pollution, air pollution, nuclear pollution); noise from cars, buses, planes, etc.; destruction of wildlife and countryside beauty; shortage of natural resources (metals, different kinds of fuel); the growth of population.

You need to do: Prove the following Nowadays there are a lot of environmental problems. People destroy many habitats of animals. Direct sunlight can be dangerous. Nuclear power station can cause a lot of trouble. Man should solve ecological problems as soon as possible. Write about the problems of air pollution and water pollution as you see them

a building in a garden or park which has glass walls and a glass roof in which you grow plants; a salad made mainly with green vegetables; the problem of temperature rise in the Earth’s atmosphere. Greenhouse effect: natural balance between plants, animals, people and their environment; plants growing in some area; part of medicine that helps people to lead a healthy life. Ecology: air, water and land, in which people, animals and plants live; an organization that wants to protect the natural world; something that we do to prevent air and water pollution. Environment: dirty water, air and atmosphere; making water, air, atmosphere dirty and dangerous for people and animals to live in; people who make water, air and atmosphere dirty and dangerous. Pollution: You need to do: 3) Choose the best way to define these:

What makes the sea water dangerous nowadays? Why is it dangerous to dump industrial waste in the sea? Where does air pollution in the cities mostly come from? Why are nuclear power stations dangerous? What are the most polluted bodies of water? What is the ecological problems of the sea of Azov? What is the ecological problems of the Chornobyl destroyed reactor?

Water pollution Almost all surface water of Ukraine belongs to the Black Sea and to the Sea of Azov basins. The high population density and low protection have given rise to chronic and serious level of in Ukraine. The Dniester and the Danube are the most polluted bodies of water. Hundreds of small rivers supply water for villages and cities of Ukraine. Those water arteries are so polluted as to pose fatal health risk to the people who depend on them. About half of the chemical fertilizers applied in the fields are washed off into the river. One of the areas suffering most from chronic coastal water pollution is the Sea of Azov. The sea’s salinity has increased by 40 percent since the 1950’s. It has resulted in a dramatic drop in fish catches by 60-90 percent.

Air pollution When the Americans decided to clean up the Statue of Liberty in 1986, the first thing they had to do was to make a hole in her nose and take away the acid rain that had collected inside. The polluted air of New York had mixed with the rain and damaged the Statue badly. And you certainly know that most of the pollution in big cities comes from cars and buses. More and more often people are told not to be in direct sunlight, because ultraviolet radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer. Normally the ozone layer in the atmosphere protects us from such radiation, but if there are holes in the ozone layer ultraviolet radiation can get to the earth. Many scientists think that these holes are the result of air pollution. Nuclear power stations can go wrong and cause nuclear pollution. This happened in Windscale in Britain, in Three Mile Island in the USA and Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union. Nuclear pollution cannot be seen but its effects can be terrible. To make air clean again we need good filters at nuclear power stations, at factories and plants and also in cars and buses. Both clean air and clean water are necessary for our health. If people want to survive they must solve these problems quickly. Man is beginning to understand that his environment is not just his own town or country, but the whole earth. That’s why people all over the world think and speak so much about ecology.

Nuclear pollution On April 26, 1986 a horrible accident occurred at the Chornobyl’ nuclear station. There was a nuclear reactor explosion, which had far reaching consequences. Contamination by various radioactive isotopes has affected the air, land and water of Ukraine. About 100 000 people were exposed to deadly level in Kyiv the maximum level by a hundredfold. Numbers of death and children leukemia have occurred in the affected areas. Significant areas of land will remain unsafe for food production for 8000 years. Workers enclosed the destroyed reaction in steel and containment building, but radiation continues to leak from this structure. After the Chornobyl disaster the environmental situation has become much worse. Ukraine appealed to the UNO requesting help to overcome the disaster aftermath. The ecological organization Green World is active in Ukraine.