Greenhouse v green house

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 487.

AWhat can you do in your own home to reduce damage to the global environment?

List five household goods which you would classify as "green", and describe how buying them would help the environment.

Now listen to the tape and answer the following questions:

1. Which green items does the speaker mention?

2. Why has she changed over to green items only gradually?

3. Why does the speaker think that simply buying more expensive goods can help the environment?

4. When did green issues become news in Britain?

5. In the speaker's opinion, why have supermarkets started selling green goods?

6. What materials does the speaker recycle?

7. How does Sheffield City Council help the environment?

8. What particular problems might there be in doing the same in Brighton?

9. From the evidence on the tape, how does Britain compare with your own country in developing green goods and services?

10. Can you think of any other ways in which households can help the environment?

11. In your opinion, what are the greatest threats to the environment in Russia? Which areas of Russia have the worst pollution problems?

B Read the extract below and answer the questions which follow.

“…and lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains…”

1. Where does this extract come from?

2. What is depicted in the prophecy?

3. What are the most likely causes and consequences of the calamities described in the prophecy?

C Now read the article below and do the task which follows.