Unit 10-Reading

What animals are you interested in?. Do you need to protect animals and forests3. Decide whether the following statements are true T or false F:1 Each year about fifty hundred species o

Forest fires

Forest clear-cutting (deforestation)

floods

Liquid waste from a factory

Killing elephants (from poachers)

Air pollution from industry

Oil tanker spill

What do the pictures make you

think of?

Air pollution Forest fires

Liquid pollution

extinction

Environmental problems

Period 61 :

UNIT 10:

Conservation

Lesson 2: Reading

1 Have you ever visited a zoo or a forest?

2 What animals are you interested in?

why?

3 Do you need to protect animals and

forests?

forests because they are a part of our Earth.

I- Before you read

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II- While you read

Let’s read

Matching the word in A with a suitable

c remove or get rid of completely

d liquid which flows off or from (something)

TASK1:

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Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F):

1) Each year about fifty hundred species of

plants and animals are eliminated

2) Many kinds of plants could be used to treat

various dangerous diseases: cancer, AIDS,…

3) Water can be held on land by vegetation

4)Man is constantly doing harm to the environment

5)Plants may cause floods and erosion

6) We can do nothing to save the earth

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T T T F F

TASK 2

1) Each year about fifty hundred species of

plants and animals are eliminated (line 2)

(lines 3-5) (lines 11-12) (lines 15-16) (lines 11-12) (lines 20-21)

TASK 3:

Choose the most suitable main

idea for each paragraph.

1 We cannot live without water.

2 Let’s do something to save the earth.

3 Forests give us a lot of valuable things.

4 Vegetation can help conserve water.

III- After you read

Answer the following questions:

1) What is the consequence of losing forest?

2) How important is water in our life?

3) What should we do for the future of our planet?

Suggested answers:

1) What is the consequence of losing forest?

It is destroying earth’s plant and

animals variety

2) How important is water in our life?

Man and most animals need a

constant supply of water to live Farmers need water for their crops

3) What should we do for the future of our planet?

- We can stop worsening the problem while scientists search for answers, and laws are passes in nature’s defence

- We should stop the disappearance of

plants and animals

- We should not use pesticide, herbicide

and fertilizers.

- We should place rubbish and plastic

bags in proper dustbins

- We should use water sparingly and do

not pollute it

rk

• Learn by heart all

the new words

• Do the exercises

in work book

• Prepare the next

lesson