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READING COMPREHENSION - PERIOD 1 Vocabulary -resource n: wealth from nature -conservation n: the safeguarding and preservation of natural resources so that they can continue to be use

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UNIT FOUR : CONSERVATION

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READING COMPREHENSION - PERIOD 1

Vocabulary

-resource (n): wealth from nature

-conservation (n): the safeguarding and

preservation of natural resources so that they can continue to be used and enjoyed

-wild-life (n): animals living in natural conditions -pollution (n): making dirty  pollute (v) make dirty

-environment (n): all places where human lives and animals live

-poisoning (n): causing harm or death with

dangerous chemical  poison (v): use

dangerous chemical to kill or hurt someone

-reclaiming (n): making something become good

-irrigate (v): supply (with) water

-drain (v) : make liquid flow away; make a place

or a thing dry by letting the water run off

* Checking:

a.   Car exhaust fumes ……… the air

b.   Land needs ……… to help crops more

    Questions

a.    What / be / conservation?

b.    World’s resources / can / be used up?

c.    What / be / the three things which make

up conservation?

d.    How /people / reclaim land? (by)

Post- Reading

Grid – Form Completion

1.  a Conservation is ……… of natural resources

b The three things which make up

-waste of ………

- ………

- ………

- ………

- ………

Pollution of environment : ………

………

………

The reclaiming of land : -irrigating ………

-………

-………

2.

READING COMPREHENSION - PERIOD 2

Vocabulary

-rotation (n): sự luân canh  rotate (v)

-element (n): an important part of something; a

part of something (in chemistry)  chemical

element

-erosion (n) sự xói mòn

-fertilizer (n): thing added to land helps enrich

-retain (v) : giữ lại

-root (n): part of a tree or a plant that is under the ground

-soil (n): ground, earth, land

1.      Plants grow well in good ………

2.      Farmers try to prevent soil ………

3.      They plant trees to ……… water

4.      It is a tree with very long ………

Questions

1.   How / farmers / can / protect / their land?

2.   How / farmers / can / help enrich the soil?

3.   Farmers / can / prevent / erosion / by /

plough / up and down?

4.   Trees / shrubs / also / needed / preserve land ? why?

5.   What / can / happen / when / all the trees /

in / a region / be cut?

2.    Why can yearly rotation of crops help

protect land? (different elements of …)

3.    Can fertilizers help enrich the soil?

4.    Can people plant trees to preserve land?

READING COMPREHENSION - PERIOD 3

WARM-UP : Finding words

1.   animal that lives and breathes in the water

2.   month between September and November

3.   drops of water that fall from the sky

4.   antonym of “late”

5.   next after the first

6.   building where you can plays

fish / October / rain / early / second / theatre FOREST

What can we find in the forest?

1      Vocabulary

-timber (n) : wood that is ready for building,

making things

-valuable (a) : worth much money

-mature (n): fully grown

-forbid (v) : ban (v) : say that someone must not

do something; not let someone do something -wipe (out) (v.) : clean the inside of something

     Checking:

a.   We bought some……… to build a shed

b.   Water is one of Man’s most ………

resources

c.   They ……… cars from the city centre

     Questions

a.   What / forests / provide?

b.   Mature trees or young ones / should / be

cut?

c.   What / many countries / have done / to

protect wild-life?

d.   What / be / chiefly / a city problem?

e.   What / pollute / the air?

f.    What / some large cities / may / have to do /

to wipe out smoke?

Post - reading

Grid – Form Completion

- One of Man’s most valuable resources :

………

- People should cut only………

- To protect wild-life, many countries have passed………

- The air is polluted by ………

- Some large cities ban cars from the city centre to ………

Reading Comprehension – P 7 - Period 4

- discard (v) : dispose of, throw away

- alternative (a) : another / other

- recycle (v) : put back into use

    Questions

a)    Minerals / can / be replaced?

b)    What / we / must / do / to conserve minerals?

c)    What / conservation / also / include?

Post – Reading

1.      Completion

- Minerals taken from the Earth include : ………

- Another content of conservation is ………

2.      Read the text and explain the following words and phrases a)     Conservation (paragraph 1): ………

b)     Yearly rotation of crops (paragraph 2): ………

c)      Wild-life preserve (paragraph 5): ………

d)     Recycle (paragraph 7): ………

  3 Find out the punctuations used to indicate that the expressions above are being explained

Answer key: dashes: - commas : , parentheses: ( )

  4   Complete the following :

* Paragraphs 1 and 7 mention four things which make up conservation List them.

………

* What is the sixth paragraph about?

 It is about ………