Prime Time 8, Speaking, Maturatraining

Support material: Expressing dimensions Revising vocabulary: The environment – 64 useful words and phrases a) Go through this list of words and make sure you know all of them. b) Form sentences in which you either describe environmental problems or in which you make suggestions as to how to protect the environment. Use as many items from the list as possible. Example: Untreated sewage is harmful to the wildlife in rivers. acid rain to die out hydraulic power plant to recycle to affect to diminish incinerator to reduce atmosphere drought industrial waste renewable to be exposed to to dump landfill site reusable to be harmful ecology to lead to sewage to become extinct ecosystem marine (wild)life soil biodegradable emission natural gas to threaten biodiversity to emit ocean toxic waste biosphere endangered species ozone untreated carbon dioxide energy-efficient ozone layer urbanisation carbon monoxide erosion poison waste disposal to cause exhaust fumes polar icecaps waste paper to combat flooding pollution water treatment to contaminate global warming power station wildlife to destroy greenhouse effect to protect wind energy detergent to harm rainforest wind farm Expressing dimensions Take sentences from the previous task and combine them with items from below. 1 2 approximately everywhere it is estimated that a large amount of all over the world almost all almost every second person mainly the majority of people many most much nearly primarily rarely roughly a small minority wherever you go 35 16 Nature and the environment Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv