Aim● to practise using active vocabulary on the topic; ● to develop pupils' speaking skills; ● to broaden students’ knowledge of the topic;● to practise listening and making up the students’ own opinion on the topic ● to practice students’ grammar,writing and reading skills;● to bring up students’ careful attitude to the environment.
Read the following paragraphs. Complete them with the missing words. developing/ diseases/ drinking/ issues/ population 1) Poverty in the developing world More than 80 percent of the world's 1)____ lives in extreme poverty in slums or in rural areas of 2)______ countries. Bad situation and lack of 3) _____water, good food and wood for сooking lead to serious environmental 4)_____. Infectious 5) _____ continue to blight the lives of the poor across the world. polluted / damaging / produce / controversial / harmful 2) Unsustainable agriculture People need to eat, but the way we 1)_______our food today raises a number of 2)_____ issues about the environment. Water is 3)______with fertilizers and pesticides. Genetically modified crops are not only 4) ______for human health, they are 5)_______ for the environment.
Match the two halves of the sentences. Choose one and illustrate it with some real-life examples.1) A great number of environmental problems a) pollution is industry.2) More than 1 billion people in the world b) threatened by overfishing. 3) Soon there will be lack of c) pressure on resources.4) Life in oceans is d) live in extreme poverty.5) Climate change is e) caused by deforestation.6) The fast loss of species is f) one of the most challenging issues facing humanity.7) The major contributor to air g) are caused by people.8) The growing human population puts h) clean fresh water in some regions of the world.
Complete the sentences with the or zero article. 1) ___ Danube runs through many European cities.2) Wild horses live in _____ Gobi Desert.3) ___ Pacific Ocean has many different types of fish.4) ___ Appalachians are among the oldest mountains on ____ Earth.5) We spent our holiday on the shore of _____ Lake Windermere.6) ___ northwest United States, generally including ___ Washington, ____Oregon, and___ Idaho.7) He has always wanted to visit ___Rome.8) She lived in ____ Europe for several years.9) ___ Belgium, Luxembourg, and ___ Netherlands arecollectively known as __"Benelux" countries. 10)I think ___ Cornwall is a very beautiful part of England.
Gap Fill Quiz green / pretty / bright / red / white / wonderful / dark / blue I see trees of ___1____ , ______2______ roses too I see them bloom , for me and you And I think to myself, what a ______3_______ world. I see skies of ____4______ and clouds of ___5_______ The ___6____ blessed day, the __8_______ sacred night And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. The colours of the rainbow, so ___9______ in the sky Are also on the faces, of people going by I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do There′re really saying, I love you. I hear babies crying, I watch them grow They′ll learn much more than I′ll never know. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world Yes I think to myself, what a wonderful world!