Listening Grammnar

1CuT Tradk 8 Fou will hear fve extracts

about local environmental campaigns.
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Choose the correct words.
Tf you can /could learn ta play 2ny musica!
Complete the notes with a word or short imstrumnent, which one would you choose?
phrase. 2 II they havea't/ hada't bought a ticket in
Speaker concerned that a new mad will
l is advance,theywouldn't have got in.
case trtejams and be bad for peuple's 3 We wouid spend / have spent iongerat the park
(1) safety and [ if it hadn't started to rain.
Speaker 2poinisoui hal 4 Had/if the service been better, they wouldhave
(2) may be a result of
left the waiter a tip.
Sracking
5 IfI know /knew how to spcak Gcrman, I would
3
Speaker thinks that the new supermarket could
wipe out locai (3)
Speaker
results in
Speaker
4 saystherecycling
grezter(4)
5believes that
point actualy

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have enjoyed the holidaymore.

Complete the text with the correct form of

5
(5) woukd be a positive the verb in brackets.
addition to the town
The ozone layer is a layer of chemicals which

5 protects us from the sun's radiation Ifthere was

no 0z0ne laver, we
(1) (be able) to survive
2uTTrack8 Listen again and choose from on In the 1950s a hole in the 0Zone layer
Earth.
A-H what
each speaker saysabout their was discovered and in the 1980s a group of
campaign.There arethree extra letters scientisis discovered that it was geiting
worse.
you do not need They believed that if we
A Sonepeogle argue that this new technique (2) (do) something
wll be better for the environmnent about it, this hoie wouid cause seriousdanmage to
life on Earth, Scientists
PInnot sure our campaien wil be successfu
realised that this
probiemwas parliy caused iy cnemmcais Lournú in
Cit has been geting more difficuitto be aerosol spraysand refrigerators. They
eavirvmentaly-Mendy. thought
Lhat we couiáoiiy suivelüe
probiem if we
DIdont kngr whypeople are angry about this. (3) (stop) sing them.
As a resuli, zKy guveraents decided to baa
EI understand the arguments in favour of this

proposal
them.Thirty years later, scientiszs have
FIcan conirmed thet the hole is getting smaler. If it
see why some residents are unhappy hadn't becn for that group of
about the pruposed changes. scicntists, we
(4) (find
G We've givenup on fighting out) ahout the
against the council. hole in the oz0ne layer. If the
govermments
H Our campaign bas caused some problems for (5) (act) so decisively,
the coundl. we might be living in a very different world
Speaker i. today
Speaker 2
Speaker 3:
Speaker
4:
Speaker 5:

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 5ChoUse(he correct wurds to cumplete (he 6 Conplete the sentences with lhe correct
forn of the verbs i brackeis.
ialogues.
1 A: Excuse me. I waswondering if you can / could 1 Ifonly she (say)
pass me thar magaine anything to Dad The present would soilhave
been a surprise
B:Of course, here you are
2 What we (be able tu)
2 A.Iwish youdon't/ didn't have to leave sn early.
if

ruvcl to Mars. Wouldyou go there?

B: Mc too, bur Ie got some things to do at home
3 It's high tíme you (stop)
3 A: If/Supposing you had more free time. What
taking sugar in your tea. It's really bad for your
wuuld yuu du with it? teeth.
B: Tdprobablydo a lot more reading. 4 I wish you (talk) so
4 A: Shall I show you how to completethis level? loudly. You'llwakc the baby up.

B: I'drather youdon't /didn't. I want to work it 5 Id rather he (take) my

out myself. book withoutasking. Ineeded it for school.
5 A: It'sa shame you missed the football. It was a
J5
gTeat match.
B. Ycs, I wisk I ntshcd/'dinishcd my
homework sooncr.

Reading

Schoois for the environment

Four teenagers tell us about what their schools did for World EnvironmentDay.
Singh Aithough iack
A Aiyssa of fo0d is a reaiity for many, in my schooi
we're foriunate that hunger is not
something we have to face. tf anything, we should we put in our stomachs.
be more worried aboutwhat My
personal opinion is that there's a lack of education about the issues sufiOunding food and diet.WWe don't think about
what we eat or where it's come from,which is a problem for us and the environment. For that reason, we decided
a
to create garden in the schoad grounds where we wouid plant orgaric fruit and vegetables. The idea was that al!
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the children from year 1 up to year would be able to play a part in maintaining the garden. thought that if we We
did this, it woutd bethe perfect way for students to find out about sustainable ways of growingfood.They would
also learn about nutrition and get hands-onexperience of producing healthy food. As a result of the project, our
students are healthier eaters and hetar gardenerS.
B Cameron Riley In my school, we decided to do an audit means we soted out and measured
of our waste, which
the waste produced in our schocl. A: first, !thought tinebecause we al kow how important
it was a vwaste of
it is to recycle. However, it's a good thing we did that audit because if we hadnt,we woulon't have known just
how much weste ve were creating. !t was unbelievable. We were throwing awey packaging, clear peper and even
pencits that had hardly been used.As you might expect, we realised we had to do something to solve this problem,
so we worked out an action plsn to reduce our waste and recycde as mch ss possible. Our eim is to reduce QLIr
waste by 75% by the next Wortd EnvironmentDay.
C MorganTarmuraWe're very lucky in that we have a lot of land suroundingour schoc!. Someone put forward
the idea of using the land to benefit the environment. One boy suggestedgrowinga wOod. He explained that it
wouldr't just happen overnight. !:would be a long-ternm project to create new wood with flowers, birds and insects.
He also thought it would be good for the environmentas a whole because even if we only plarnted a hundred trees,
t !
woule help in the fight against climate change. think we were al! convinced by his argument,so we decided fo
give it a go. We
contacted some charities that provide youna trees and we've just had our first hundred deivered. ft
you come back in a few years, the place willbe completely different!

D Nathan Davenport My classmates and decided

to focus on transport for World Environment Day. You only had
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to stand outside the school gates in the morningto realise that our school transport was a problem. Pollution came
Trom thecars as parents dropped off pupils and from the school buses waiting with their engines running. It's awful
tor heenvironment and our students' heath.We therefore tried to encourage students to find alternative ways of

getng to school. As you might expect, many of them rode bikes, but some of them organised car shares and some
just canme on fo0t instead. We also asked the bus drivers to Switch off
their engines when they were droppng
sidents of. Al in all, l'd say our project was a success:there's much less traffic outside the
undoubtedly cleaner.
school and ne s d
 7 Resd (heartícle and malch
with desaipions 1-4.
seclions A-D 10 Çhoose the correc words.
1 Most sCiennsts think the dnsaurs ed away
1 Discovering a pmblem that we didn't think out after a massive asterod hit Earth
eKisted tn our schooi. 2 Environmental gruups re
calling for to more
2 Encouraging people to change the way they action to decrease pollution in cties os
travel to school. 3 It's unlikcly that wel run away / out of oii in the

3 A project to crTeate a spacefor wldlife near our next century.

school. 4 Im not going to throw ny old computer away/
4 Learning aboutwher's good for the environment up.I'm going to see if Ican recvcle it

and our bodies. 5 This place is a mess. Let's see if we can clean it

out/up hefore Mn gets home

8 For each question,choose from the people

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A-D.The people may be chosen more than 11 Comnlete the sentences with a prepasition
Once. in each gap.
Which person 1 A problenm of living on Mars is that peopiewouid
1 feels fortunate to have a lot of open spacearound be exposed dangerouslevels of
their school? radiation.

2 believes that people aren't taught enough about 2 Many animals in the Amazon raintorest are
certain things? thrcatcncd pcopic cutüng own
trees.
3 thinks the problem at their school was obvious to
many people? 3 Ifyou leave the lights on when you're not in the
e room.it's just a waste energy.
4 wanted to take on a project after listening to
another student? 4 It'sbest to use sun cream to protect your
skin thc sun.
5 ws srprisedby how bada prohlem ws?
5 Fish andother marine life are being seriously

6 hought the project wauld be a good opportunity

affected pollution in our oceans.
for students?

12 Complete the text with thewords in the

box. There are two extra words which you
Vocabulary donot need.

Complete the sentences with the phrases ín change development footorint

|
the box.
down out to warming|
carbon footprint| global warming greenhouse There are many environmentalproblems
lacing
effect |renewable energy! toic waste the worldtoday. Climate (1) is
perhaps the biggest concern formany of us as it
1 Inorder to protect the environment we need to threatens to wipe (2)
use more species and
like wind and make parts of the worid uninhabitable. Scientists.
solar power.
emvironmentalgroups and governments have
2 When is put in the tughirghted ihe dangerS, yet ii doesn't feei iike
ground, it can poison the earth for thousands of much progress is being made We coninue to
years. chop (3) he rainíoresis which are
3 A good way to reduce So essential for reducing the effects of
to0 much
your isby flying as cartkat dicxide in the
little alinKIsphere.Al lhe sane
aspossible. time. pollution from cars and
aeroplanesis just
4 Temperatureshave been slowiy as harmful (4) the envirunment and
rsing due to
the the air we breathe. It is therefore
essential that
and now
reaching dangerous levels
they are We ume p with sotme seritN Sstaimable
5 Scicntists think (5) objectives if we want to avotd
that destruying ur planet
will have caused
the Arcicice capto melt
completely by 2050

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Speaking
13Read
Apart from that |One of the most ||
the questonand complete the student'k answer with the prases in he box.

Prrsnally That said

Teacher: What are the environmental probiems in your country?

|The reason I say this

Student: Ithink there are probably several environmental problems in my country.

(1) important is timate change because this is a prublem that atfects the whule
world.(2) .I
don't think people are doing enough to stop it For example, people
drive theircars everywhereand there are still luts of factories polluting the air (3)
somcpcoplc arc awarc of the problcm and thcy are changing thcir habits. (4) ,
therc
are still other problems. like wasting water, which no one seems to worry about.
(5) is because I live in a hot country and we often have water shortages.However.
peopie stili use it for their swimming poois and tu wash their cars. if we keep consuming iike this, there won't
be enough water for everyone.

14 Read the discussionquestions below:Write oneortwo sentences in response

Reuenber to:
to each question.

•give your opinion and explain your reasons or justify it with examples
•useappropriate phrases for contrasting opinions
•use appropriate nature and envionment vocabulary
1 What arc thc biggest cnvironmental problems the worid faccs?

2. Why don'tpeople do more to protect the environment?

3 Is it a guodideafor students to be taugnt about cmate change?

4 What can young people dn to reduce theircarhon footyrint?

5 Why do somepeople think it is important to protect endangered animals?

8 UNIT 8 TEST Standard B2

Use of English
15 write a form of the word in capitals in each gap to complele the lext.
Bgmboo Houses
Growing concern over the effects of modernconstrucionmethos has meant tht some
architects arekookirg te more (1) ways of making builtlings.One interc sttng TRADIT:ON
project is in Bali.wiere designers are using hamboo to create schools and (2) LIVE
sparesPamboo ts a type of wood whtch has,been sed to brtld houscs for thousanets of
ycars. Apartfrom bcing (3) for the cnvironmcnt(it's biodcgradablc), thercs BENEFIT
aso no shortage of it in Bali,where it grows quickly andeasily Not only that, but
bamboo's flexibility means that therc's plunty of (4) in the esigns. Bamboo ORIGIN
is not the best material in (5)
weather However,if treated properly these STORM
bamboO structures can last for many years.

16 write one wordin each gap to compiete the text.

Do you wish you (1) do more to heip make the world a cleaner place to live in? Have you heen
telling yourself that it's high (2) you did more to protect the environment? Ifso, then you should
come along to our group. We meet every Wednesday andwe
shareideason how to help the environment.
Some ot our discussions have been abouthow to reduce
your carbon (3} -. Switching to renewable
energyand growingyouT oWn organic food. However,if
new members wanted to propose a new topic, we
(4) be more than happy to iscuss it. Apart
írom our weekÍy iscussions,weve aiso been
involved in various campaigns such as
calling (5) better traffic controls in the town and
of solar energy ior sireet lights. the use

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Writing
17do Complete the sentencesbelow with the words m the b0x. There are two exra words whlch you

2
not need.

anything

The first
|as conslderi impartant

thing we shouhd
||
Lke queetion way

is how we can educate people about climate change

This is due tothe fact that nut many peoplc are aware of the prublems
3 If you're Iike rne, yon love the world we live in

4 Thiscan be very useful people don't always understand the dangers of global warming
5 One important is wny we don't omore to protect he environmeni.

18 Read the task below and write the frst twoparagraphs of your article.
You see this advert on an English-speaking website for teenagers.

ARTICLESWANTED
The averageperson uses several hundred litres of watera day This is fartoo much! We want to help
people use lesswater. Send us your rtices explaining two things ordinary people can do to use less
water. The best articleswill appear on our website and win a
prize!

Remember to:

give your artice a title

•iaked conneliun wih he eaier
•explain atleast one thing people can do touse less water
•give examples and reasons foreach point
•check your spelling and grammar

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