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This document is about environmental issues and vocabulary related to ecology. It discusses national parks and nature reserves in Ukraine and their protection. It provides vocabulary related to the environment, climate change, and endangered species. Some of the vocabulary words include "avoid", "protect", "save", "suffer from", "reduce", "prevent", "damage", "loss", "ecology", and "environment". It also includes a listening exercise about glaciers and ice melting in Greenland.

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This document is about environmental issues and vocabulary related to ecology. It discusses national parks and nature reserves in Ukraine and their protection. It provides vocabulary related to the environment, climate change, and endangered species. Some of the vocabulary words include "avoid", "protect", "save", "suffer from", "reduce", "prevent", "damage", "loss", "ecology", and "environment". It also includes a listening exercise about glaciers and ice melting in Greenland.

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А НГЛ І Й С Ь К А

М ОВА
11 клас

Природа і довкілля. Лексика. Національні парки


та заповідники, заказники України та їх охорона.
Еко-туризм. Граматика. Означальні речення
(RelativeClauses).

Vocabulary

➔ Read and learn the words.


➔ To check pronunciation, use the website https://www.dictionary.com/.

avoid, v to try not to do something

protect, v to save from injury, damage, or destruction

save, v to rescue or deliver from danger or harm

suffer from, v to sustain loss or damage

reduce, v to lower, make smth smaller

prevent, v to keep from happening or existing

damage, n loss or harm resulting from injury to person, property, or reputation

loss, n an instance of losing

ecology, n a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms


and their environments

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environment, the surroundings or conditions in which a person, an animal, or a plant
n lives or operates

environmenta harmful effects to Earth and its natural systems due to the actions of
l issues, n humans

global the long-term heating of Earth's climate system


warming, n

the a process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's
greenhouse heat
effect, n

the ozone a thin part of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs almost all of the sun's
layer, n harmful ultraviolet light

climate a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to
change, n define Earth's local, regional and global climates

extreme unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather


weather
conditions, n

endangered a type of organism that is threatened by extinction


species, n

habitat, n the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism

rainforest, n a forest in a tropical area that receives a lot of rain

deforestation, clearing or thinning of forests by humans to make the land available for
n other uses

biodiversity, n the variety of life found in a place on Earth or, often, the total variety of
life on Earth

extinct, adj no longer in existence; having ended or died out

contaminated, made less pure; poisonous


adj

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Listening
Task 1
Read the words and their definitions. Try to guess what the text is going to be about.

➔ ice sheet
a thick layer of ice covering a large area of land for a long period of time
➔ glacier
very large, slow-moving mass of ice
➔ in balance
having different parts or elements arranged in the correct proportions
➔ tipping point
time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped
➔ rate
speed at which something happens or changes
➔ throw your hands up
(idiom) show frustration and despair when a situation becomes so bad that you
give up

Have you guessed the topic?

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Task 2
Look through the questions. Listen and choose the correct option.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08wkj6w/player
a) Large, slow-moving masses of
1. In 2020 the hottest temperature was
ice;
recorded in ____________ .
b) Large, slow-moving masses of
a) Texas; snow;
b) California; c) Ice sheets;
c) Greenland; d) Large, fast-moving masses of ice
d) Iceland. and snow;

6. Greenhouse gases humans are


2. Greenland’s ice sheet is ________
pumping into the atmosphere affect ice
times the size of Texas and almost ____
melting.
kilometres thick.
a) True;
a) 5; 2;
b) False;
b) 13; 22;
c) Doesn’t say.
c) 2; 3;
d) 3; 2.
7. Who thinks that changes in human
3. Many scientists say that it’s now too activity can still slow the rate – or speed
late to stop global heating and melting of Greenland’s ice sheet melting?
polar ice.
a) Neil;
a) True; b) Michaela;
b) False; c) Georgiana;
c) Doesn’t say. d) Scientists;
e) No one.
4. Ice sheet was _______ prior to 2000.
8. How many gigatonnes of Greenland’s
a) on a tipping point; ice sheet are now melting every year?
b) in balance; a) 500 gigatonnes;
c) more or less in balance. b) 450 gigatonnes;
c) 550 gigatonnes;
5. What are Greenland's glaciers? d) 540 gigatonnes.

Keys 1 В 2D 3 B 4 C 5 A 6 C 7 B 8

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Task 3
Answer the questions.
1. Is it now too late to stop global heating and melting polar ice?
2. Has the attention moved away from serious global environmental issues
because of the coronavirus? In what way?
3. What can slow the rate of ice melting?
4. What can people do to prevent global warming?

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