The 22nd of May.. Ecological problems.. Task. 1 Read the text and do the task below. Прочитайте текст (устно) и выполните задания (письменно).. Environmental problem is the most burning problem of today.

The 22nd of May.

Ecological problems.

Task. 1 Read the text and do the task below. Прочитайте текст (устно) и выполните задания (письменно).

Environmental problem is the most burning problem of today.

The ecological problem influence the climate on the Earth. Mankind long believed that, whatever we did, the Earth would remind much the same. Nature is under threat. Our country’s pollution can be every country’s problem. So we all need to work together to safeguard our environment.

Air pollution is a very serious problem. Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substances. They are the main reason for the greenhouse effect and acid rains. The pollution of air and the world’s ocean, destruction of the ozone layer is the result of man’s careless interaction- with nature a sign of the ecological crises.

Rains, full of acid chemicals, change lakes, rivers, as well as forests. Acid water kills the plants and animals that usually live in water. Acid rain makes the Earth more acidic and some kinds of trees can’t live in the sol that is very acidic. Forests are disappearing and this upsets the oxygen balance.

Water pollution occurs mostly, when people overload the water environment such as streams, lakes, underground water, bays or seas with wastes or substances harmful to living being.

Nuclear weapons is also course of the pollution. It brings a great damage to the agriculture, forests and people’s health.

The greenhouse effect and global warming both correspond with each other. The greenhouse effect is recalled as incoming solar radiation that passes through the Earth’s atmosphere but prevents much of the outgoing infrared radiation from escaping into outer space. It causes the overheat of the air as a result we have the global warming effect.

People are beginning to realize that environmental problems are not somebody else’s. In many countries environmental protection agencies and research centers are up. Such organization as “Green Peace” cares for ecology in countries. Its main goal is to combine the people’s efforts for peace with the huge and ever mounting movement launches all kind of environmental actions and inform of the ways, means and results of this work.

Task. 2 Match the words with their definitions (Сопоставьте слова с их определениями). Пишем не только цифры и буквы, а полностью слова и словосочетания. А так же делаем перевод данных слов и словосочетаний.

Например: 3. ozone layer - l. a layer of the chemical ozone in the earth’s atmosphere that block harmful rays from the sun (озоновый слой - слой химического озона в атмосфере Земли, который блокирует вредные лучи от солнца).

1.extinct	a. a person who kills wildlife illegally
2.pollution	b. an electricity generation station which uses radioactive fuel to drive the generators
3.ozone layer	c. no longer existing, as an animal species
4.poacher	d. the damage done to air, water or soil by the addition of harmful chemicals
5.habitat	e. the part of the Earth which contains all the living creatures
6.biosphere	f. the process of treating paper, plastic and metals so that they can be used again
7. acid rain	g. the raising of the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere caused by the burning of fossil fuels and increased amount of gases such as carbon dioxide
8.nuclear power station	h. the natural environment of a plant or animal
9.endangered species	i. the act of cutting down large areas of forest
10. recycling	j. a species which is in danger of becoming extinct
11.global warming	k. rain that contains acid from industrial waste
12.deforestation	l. a layer of the chemical ozone in the earth’s atmosphere that block harmful rays from the sun