Prime Time 7/8, Language in Use, Arbeitsheft

Language in use: Severn Suzuki’s speech at the UN Earth Summit a) You are going to read the full text of Severn Suzuki’s speech at the UN Earth Summit. Some words are missing from the text. Choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for each gap (1–12) in the text. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 2 Hello, I’m Severn Suzuki speaking for ECO, The Environmental Children’s Organisation. We are a group of twelve- and thirteen-year- olds trying to make a difference: Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We … (0) all the money to come here ourselves, to come five thousand miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming here today, I have no hidden … (Q1) . I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on … (Q2) of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our ozone layer. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing inVancouver, my home, with my dad until just a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers. And now we hear of animals and plants going … (Q3) every day – vanishing forever. In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see. Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, … (Q4) do you! You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring the salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back the forest that once grew where there is now desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it! Here, you may be … (Q5) of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or politicians, but really you are mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles. And all of you are someone’s child. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong; in fact, 30 million species strong, and we all … (Q6) the same air, water and soil – borders and governments will never change that. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world … (Q7) one single goal. In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to share. We are afraid to let go of some of our wealth. In Canada, we live the … (Q8) life, with plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for two days. Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time with some children living on the streets. This is what one child told us, “I wish I was rich. And if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter and love and affection.” If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can’t stop thinking that these are children my own age, that it makes a tremendous … (Q9) where you are born, that I could be one of those children 60 Saving the planet 12 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv